Royal Unique Human and Robot NPCs And Factions - Leveled Diversified Scaled Including Children and Starborn

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Customized human NPCs that are faster, level with the player, and have additional body type and height diversity. Tweaked named story boss enemies as well as generic bosses. Each faction individually tweaked, with Spacers as the weakest. Enjoy fighting the First, House Va'Ruun, and the Starborn. Load after other leveled list mods.

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This mod does not have any known dependencies other than the base game.

Mods requiring this file

Mod name	Notes
HaiTan95's Compatibility Patches Hub	Required for Royal Human - Royal Starborn - Better Armor / Better Weapon Patch
Royal Unique Human and Robot NPCs And Factions - Simplified Chinese Translation	原mod
Toddfield's Trusty Patches

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Author's instructions

if I ever go inactive for 60 days, this mod will go MIT license (minus any parts that are credited below).

For now, I am very active and would prefer to receive a request if you want to use these NPC records but have something of value that will improve them for a different use.

I had initially left all my permissions very open as I hoped someone would want to take over and improve my mods, but I've gotten better at this and intend to stick around. =)

Translations welcome and appreciated without any contact needed. Feel free to keep the download points for yourself as well. No need to waste them =)

File credits

No Rescale on Interact Fix
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/7945?tab=description

Thank you ermakysion for the great fix and the open permissions so I could just bundle this in for everyone

xEdit Team, Elminster

ljorder66 for the initial amazing leveled lists that showed me the potential for a great leveled world in Starfield. =)

So much gratitude to Funhammy for the unique children.
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/users/3288099?tab=user+files

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Mandarin Author: SLO1998	Royal Unique Human and Robot NPCs And Factions - Simplified Chinese Translation

Changelogs

Version 3.20
- -Updated to include latest changes to Royal Starborn and improvements from Royal Galaxy.
Version 3.1
- Adds some missed NPCs. Reverts an AI change to Nikolaus Slayton that might have made him aggressive instead of allowing dialogue in combination with some AI mods.
  
  Removed "Faction" from the name as this JUST tweaks NPC record, and has nothing to do with factions.
  
  Intended to avoid confusion for users also running "Venworks Faction Overhaul":
  https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/8528?tab=files
Version 3.0
- ** MAJOR UPDATE** Read before Updating.
  
  As we learn about plugins caps, modders want to consolidate into as few plugins as possible (even if it means we get less downloads).
  
  In the past, I have only included a LITE version of Royal Starborn in this package. It did not include increases to Starpower, AI use of magical powers, or some other minor tweaks.
  
  As of the past few updates, I have significantly nerfed enemy Starborn Powers in Royal Starborn for a few reasons, and reduced their level scaling. As such, I no longer find them too jarring to include in this package. In the past, they used a TON of Starborn Powers and they were buffed quite a bit. I have normalized these far closer to vanilla for compatibility reasons.
  
  This is the version Royal Galaxy users have been using since 1.0, and no complaints about OP Starborn.
  
  ***As of this update, Royal Unique Humans INCLUDES Royal Starborn. It just doesn't include any changes to the Starborn ship.**
  
  So: this plugin now covers ALL human and robot level scaling. Royal Starborn is only needed (load after) if you want the improved Starborn Guardian ship. You can use the Royal Starborn - Very Hard Patch with this-- you do not need to install Royal Starborn.
  
  Royal Starborn will continue to exist as a plugin and be maintained for those who ONLY want Starborn to be more challenging.
  
  If there are any objections, please let me know. This change also brings about a 5% buff to overall Starborn HP and some speed buffs, but it's the version I've been playtesting for ages.
  
  Additionally, I have finally covered scaling for all Outpost Allies, some turrets I had missed in the past, and Mini-Sanitation Bots (0.3x level scaling or so).
  
  Size scaling has been tweaked for a few missed enemies.
  
  **Should you still run Royal Starborn?**
  I will continue to experiment with improving Starborn powers and gameplay in that plugin. I happened to land on a version that enhanced them while feeling very Vanilla+, so this felt the right time for inclusion.
  
  In future updates, Royal Starborn will again emerge as the better plugin for interesting Starborn combat-- so feel free to leave it enabled if you always want the best version of Starborn Foes.
  
  One example I am working on is adding a dead local alien near certain Starborn spawns so they can properly resurrect them--
  
  But as of today, this is the same version across both plugins. But again, this version does not include the buffed Starborn Guardian for enemies or players.
Version 2.60
- Covered significantly more enemies as well as adjusted the balance of a few specific encounter NPCs.
  
  Certain Turrets that would not scale will do so. Story enemies improved.
  
  Resaved in latest version of xEdit.
  
  Level and size scaling for cleaner bots lol
Version 2.50
- Pretty major update. The one where I nerfed health sponges some more at endgame levels and reduced some overly extreme potential height scaling (too tall).
  
  Polishing all of my mods for end game difficulty, then hoping to offer a merged plugin sometime soon (I will maintain support for all versions and will continue to use the separate versions myself).
  
  Reduced some overly high level mults.
  
  To be clear, I never really intended this mod as a major difficulty or "hardcore" mods. I just wanted to create leveled lists that created the experience that would feel most enjoyable and at home for players who had enjoyed past Bethesda games (like myself). That does have the side effect of increasing difficulty a bunch, but mostly because I think Vanilla was way undertuned.
  
  Depending on your level, some enemies should spawn around the same as in vanilla. The scaling grows harsher at higher levels, where you have more tools to deal with the enemies. (a 0.8x multiplayer at level 50 might be a 1.2x multiplier at level 100).
  
  To create a strong sense of variety, this mod uses a ton of hand-crafted diversity for enemies. A recruit might spawn at only 0.7x, whereas a Va'Ruun boss or Starborn might spawn at 1.25x.
  
  Version 2.50 Damage scaling tweaks:
  In practice, I expect few players will notice the difference, but it was a decent amount of work and I'm really happy with the results.
  
  -Slightly reduced damage resistance and energy resistance for some of the max level NPCs that now scale infinitely with you, to balance out their increased health.
  -The higher level (90+) Human/Robot NPCs have a ton of damage resistance and energy damage resistance because in vanilla, that would be their max level.
  -Once you add level scaling into the mix, adding HP for every level past their original value, they become QUITE tanky. To account for this, I reduced the resistances of the highest level enemy variants and those that would gain the most level scaling.
  -This helps allow fast-firing automatic weapons to remain viable for the player.
  -Given the slightly increased headshot damage mult, I didn't really start to consider this a huge problem until level 120-150.
  
  A few new NPCs covered and tweaked.
  
  A few upgrades from my future mods bundled in. I think these are pretty objective upgrades, or I wouldn't do it. A few NPCs now carry the pickpocket items you would expect them to based on their quest. It's just a handful for now, don't go looking for it until Pirate's Plunder (my next big mod) comes out.
  
  This will probably be the last balancing patch focused around end game for a bit, as I wanted to get it perfect before rolling a new character and doing the same for early game. All of my mods will receive similar updates.
  
  Leveled Enemies is no longer a soft-requirement for any of my mods (and hasn't been for a while, I just needed to confirm everything properly leveled from templates). Loading leveled enemies before my mods will offer a SLIGHTLY harder experience by manually tweaking some of the enemies higher that I let pull from templates. However, doing so will wipe out the changes from NPC Height Variety (https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/7466?tab=files).
  
  I suggest loading
  *RandomNPCHeights.esm early in your load order, and Royal Unique Human NPCs late.
Version 2.2
- Balancing pass based on WHEN in the story you encounter certain enemies. Early in Constellation storyline? A bit lower. End of a faction mission or campaign? A bit higher.
  This gives you a chance to grab better armor and weapons and should theoretically make this more enjoyable both on low levels and on a fresh unity.
  
  Continued to manually scale more NPCs (including corpses) so that they don't stand out too much and give a nice experience.
Version 2.1
- Moving forward, I have accepted that NPC size variation will come through plugin edits rather than an SFSE plugin, so the goal will be size variation or hand-done customization for every NPC. Load this plugin very late, as it will customize the height and stats of every NPC it touches, and any other mods that tweak the NPC will remove something.
  
  I strongly suggest:
  
  Height Variation Toolkit:
  ttps://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/7466
  
  But load Height Variation Toolkit very early, before any other mod that affects NPC records. Must be loaded before Leveled Enemies, Royal Mods, Starfield Extended Leveled lists, etc.
  
  Be sure to load Better Crowd Citizens after Height Variation Toolkit:
  https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/6218
  
  Then use this patch:
  https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/7695
  
  Load RoyalUniqueHumans.esm after all these mods.
  
  Moving forward, I will hand-tweak any NPC I come across to have sizes that fit their personality, lore, etc, and add them to this plugin as well. So if an enemy is made too small or large by NPC height variation (I have only found a few so far), I will add them to this mod and customize them.
Version 2.01
- Main plugin is correctly named. Thanks nobody666777!!
  
  *RoyalUniqueHumanNPCs.esm
  
  No need to update from 2.0, just the name change.
Version 2.0
- The one that adds Funhammy's unique children.
  https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/users/3288099?tab=user+files
  
  If you already run them, they are safe to remove to free up plugin slots. If you want a different customization Funhammy made, load it after this mod.
  
  ==Royal Human NPC Records:
  
  A week of subtle improvements that add up :)
  
  For example, a specific radiant quest NPC that asks you to run somewhere with them might move at a faster movement speed to improve that radiant quest.
  
  A few more credits or a chance at a better gun added to a few story bosses.
  
  Added No Rescale on Interact Fix
  https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/7945?tab=description
  Thank you ermakysion for the great fix and the open permissions so I could just bundle this in for everyone :)
  
  If for some reason you don't want the children, let me know. I'd prefer not to maintain the childless version, but if there is significant demand I will.
Version 1.30
- Further customization to The First robots.
  
  More Unique Named enemies tweaked.
  
  Fixed a balance issue in the base game. Since Spacers and Crimson Fleet stop leveling pretty early in vanilla, their final variants have a TON of damage resist and energy resist (around Terrormorph or The Hunter level, compared to a vast majority of NPCs that have none). Once you add in level scaling HP higher, Spacer Myths and Pirate Legends become stronger than the respective "Boss" enemies of their faction. Despite the fancy name, these are just regular grunt spawners at the highest level.
  
  Reduced baseline DR/ER by about 25% for the two highest-leveled variants only in those factions. Added a little bit more DR/ER to enemies flagged as bosses.
  
  On request, I can make a "hard" file or other optional pretty easily, but I think most people will find these changes more fun. If there's anything you come across that seems in poor taste, politely let me know and I'll either patch it for main version or add an optional.
Version 1.28
- Minor improvements to specific enemies.
Version 1.27
- Minor tweaks.
  
  Reverted Va'Ruun AI to PEAK settings of aggressive. The vanilla settings just result in awkward behavior too often. PEAK Patch no longer needed. Moral of the story: never doubt BasedGodAce.
Version 1.26
- Many tweaks to unique bosses and NPCs.
  
  Slightly nerfed some Va'Ruun NPCs. They were taking too little damage from Ballistic and energy weapons.
  
  Increased speed of Robot Model S enemies. Slightly reduced size to try to improve their pathing.
Version 1.25
- Increased Variance Update: The weak are weaker, the strong are still very strong. ^_^
  
  Spacers, Crimson Fleet, and a few miscellaneous "human" leveled lists tuned. A few Ecliptic enemies brought down a tiny bit. Survivability of specific enemies in these factions nerfed. Minor increases to speed and other tweaks to keep them interesting.
  
  The strength of other factions was maintained.
  
  Headshot damage increased from previous versions to 2.2x to 2.5x. (Vanilla: 2.0)
  
  Note: An optional file reverts all human headshot/body damage changes to vanilla if you don't want these changes. If you want 3x headshot damage or more advanced body customization, I suggest Headhunter by NexStephen, but there are lots of great options on Nexus and I am happy to take requests. These damage tweaks are intended to be baseline settings as close to vanilla as possible to ensure you have fun with these NPCs. Load any other body damage/headshot damage mods after this and they will apply. 3x headshot damage from Headhunter would probably ensure even the most bullet-sponge hating player can enjoy these NPC lists.
  
  Jetpack shots increased from 1.25x to 1.5x to try to reduce the feeling of damage sponges. (Vanilla 1.0). Slightly benefits sneaking up on enemies, but also makes letting enemies behind you slightly more lethal. (The player is a human, so these changes affect incoming damage slightly as well. Most noticeable with PEAK High accuracy)
  
  I can post optional files with restored strength for spacers/Crimson Fleet if anyone really loved last version, but I find this update a lot more enjoyable. Thank you gfauxpas for the extensive playtesting and feedback. :D
  
  These are still MUCH stronger than vanilla enemies, but should become reasonable to fight as you acquire decent weapons and armor. I am not aiming to make this a hardcore mod, so I'd love feedback from lower level players and those using unorthodox play styles. Please let me know if it's too hard or spongey.
  
  As of right now, I consider most full-auto weapons underpowered. I have been looking into a balance patch, but it's difficult to figure out objective values for where things should be.
  
  Semi-automatic ballistic weapons, or laser or particle beams do well in the game's current state.
  
  I encourage you to use mods like Early Game Weapons Empowered (https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/5921) to buff some weak weapon outliers for better balance.
  
  If you really want to use full-auto weapons, consider (https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/6077) to buff the bullet damage of full auto to the same as semi-auto. I don't run this so I can't confirm how well it works, but increasing the damage to full auto should bring them close to being viable against difficulty-increased mobs.
Version 1.2
- Starborn Update:
  
  Significantly nerfed level and DR of some Starborn.
  
  Some Starborn that had 0 base resistances buffed to now have 75/75 or so.
  
  Still Load Royal Starborn after if you run both; updating the other mod shortly.
  
  Increased slower Starborn speeds from 110--> 120 or 130. Some slightly higher.
Version 1.1
- Ron Hope update.
  
  Headshot damage increased from 2.0 (vanilla) to 2.2x. This is a 10% headshot damage increase. This allows subtly different breakpoints and, for me, makes Snipers feel worth it at times compared to other BIS legendaries. Backpack damage slightly increased (a tiny bit more explosions / watch out for enemies behind you!).
  
  Player headshot/body tweak mods also affect incoming damage to the player (technically, we are human). I've been holding off on tweaking this value for NPCs, but I think everyone will soon end up modding headshot and bodyshot damage, so it's better to balance our load orders around at least a 10% increase to headshot damage. This helps avoid bullet sponges and subtly increases difficulty (most noticeable with PEAK hardcore).
  
  Reverted some (but not all) Va'Ruun AI to default Cautious values. The world is more unique and interesting if some NPCs have their own agenda and hunting the player isn't the #1 priority. Melee, shotgun, and boss enemies kept aggressive, as well as all the spawn using default templates rather than Va'Ruun specific records. If using Better Weapons, the Va'Ruun NPC with the best weapon will be aggressive, which, I think, is a cool AI trick ;)
  
  Some generic templates (used by all factions) reduced in strength-- they were being used for way more NPCs than I suspected.
  
  Va'Ruun PEAK Patch now an optional file. No judgement if you want everything to be uber hostile, I was just surprised to see how specifically the Va'Ruun AI was coded in vanilla from other NPCs, and realized it made them stand out as unique and almost "above" the petty conflicts of the Settled Systems.
  
  Reduced or removed some stat bonuses from Crimson Fleet and Spacers that were causing them to survive too long.
  
  Lowered level-mult of some outliers that were scaling too high. This will be the case with all of my mod's latest updates-- a few NPCs just had level mults that were set higher than needed, leading to damage sponges. I will soon post a separate mod that lets you multiple levelmults independently of NPC records if you want things to be super high.
  
  Tweaked some unique NPCs and adjusted speeds of some NPCs that were missed.
  
  Further Buffs to Matsura The Grim. I think the fact that he doesn't wear a helmet for the dialogue scene makes him comically weak, this should finally fix that.
  
  10% of DP now tithed to ElminsterAU, creator of xEdit Tool I use for modding.
  10% to Red Cross Foundation.

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Royal Unique Human and Robot NPCs- Leveled, Improved, Diversified, Scaled
A big criticism of leveled worlds is that everything feels the same to fight.

This mod aims to avert that by ensuring that factions and individual enemies within groups are unique. Enemies have different stats, body types, heights, and most importantly, speeds. Spacers are generally the weakest, with House Va'Ruun being the strongest-- outside Starborn.

I worked hard to make Royal Aliens look and feel distinct, but in the end, most of our time is spent fighting humans.

To be clear, I never really intended this mod as a major difficulty or "hardcore" mods. I just wanted to create leveled lists that created the experience that would feel most enjoyable and at home for players who had enjoyed past Bethesda games (like myself). That does have the side effect of increasing difficulty a bunch, but mostly because I think Vanilla was way undertuned.

Depending on your level, some enemies should spawn around the same as in vanilla. The scaling grows harsher at higher levels, where you have more tools to deal with the enemies. (a 0.8x multiplayer at level 50 might be a 1.2x multiplier at level 100).

To create a strong sense of variety, this mod uses a ton of hand-crafted diversity for enemies. A recruit might spawn at only 0.7x, whereas a Va'Ruun boss or Starborn might spawn at 1.25x.

A hyped up Story Boss that died in one bullet in Vanilla will now take at least a few. Very often, these changes will be invisible because it will feel "right" compared to vanilla which felt like something was a little off with how quickly certain enemies died.

Headshot damage increased from previous versions to 2.5x from Vanilla 2.0x. This helps reduce "health sponges" and also makes enemies a bit more threatening, since you count as a human and their hits to your head will do more. Load any other headshot mods after this one-- this seemed like a nice baseline change to balance out combat.

With size scaling, I have been meticulously careful over months now to ensure no issues.

Robots will not scale large enough for their heads to pop out of pods.

Robot model S enemies (depending on the location/faction) will sometimes be slightly smaller to improve their pathing/clipping on Terrain, so they can actually reach you.

Every NPC touched has some size variety-- even if it's absolutely tiny, like for turrets-- to help subconsciously make your brain feel like this is a lived-in, diverse world.

This mod now includes diverse appearances for children thanks to the outstanding work and open permissions of Funhammy. Skintones for Children is not required, but will further diversify the appearance.

This mod only tweaks vanilla NPC records. It should be safe to add or remove.

Overall Improvements This Mod Offers:

Randomized (within a range) height scaling, different depending on NPC role. This was done by hand to ensure a good experience among the enemies you face the most.
Tweaked body types for more variety.
Compared to other level scaling mods, there is greater significance in the difference in levels and stats based on faction and enemy type. Fighting Spacers will be easier than other factions. Crimson Fleet will have the most varying skill levels of opponents, and House Va'Ruun will be the strongest regular humans with the largest heights. All will be weaker than the Starborn included in this mod, and significantly weaker than the Starborn from my Royal Starborn mod.
Movement speed slightly increased on average, then significantly increased for specific enemies. This offers a surprisingly large gameplay improvement. Faster enemies feel more realistic, aggressive, and fulfill combat roles like melee or shotgunner far better.
Bosses are more likely to reach you at the same time as their grunts-- it just feels a lot better. With slightly different stats and movement speeds, not every engagement will play out the same. No enemies are slower, but there is a lot of variety in movement speed.
Boss Enemies will be more noticeably powerful than their grunts.
As with all the Royal NPC mods, vanilla values were used as a basis. If an enemy was stronger or more muscular by default, I've exaggerated that effect to make it more noticeable in practice. Lower level variants of enemies are closer to vanilla values, whereas the highest leveled lists are more likely to move more quickly or gain bonus stats to give a high-level player more challenge.
Higher level planets and systems will generally pull from these higher leveled lists even early in your playthrough, as in the base game.
All values from PEAK maintained (or in some cases aggression slightly increased).
Many Named, Unique enemies tweaked.
I have also decided to include a LITE version of my Royal Starborn NPCs as this would have felt weird to play if the Starborn were pushovers, but I would rather not make another mod a requirement. Starborn will generally be the strongest and fastest enemies and have the highest levels, but their small numbers limit them.
Royal Starborn will make them even stronger and is by far my preferred overhaul. Load that mod after this one.

Most human enemies included scale between 0.7-1.25x the player level, with a few outliers even higher. Va'Ruun averages 1.3. Starborn go as high as 1.5 with some bosses up to 1.75.

Speedmult of most NPCs increased slightly; some bosses, shotgunners and melee NPCs increased from 100 to est. average of 130.

Most AI has been tweaked for more aggression. For enemies that had values in PEAK, I usually kept those same values or went more aggressive.

This mod should, in general, be easier than other leveled enemies mods for Spacers, common guards, UC and FreeStar, but harder or the same for boss-flagged enemies.

The Starborn, House Va'Ruun, and The First receive the most significant buffs beyond other leveled lists.

The Spacer enemies will be slightly lower level than the base version of leveled enemies (some scale below player level), but the speed bonuses and bosses should still make them more interesting to fight. I did not want every faction to feel the same.

All enemies I tweaked receive some modest height variation and body type variation. Bosses tend to be a little bigger to match their strength.

Factions:
Listed in general order of strength.

I am VERY open to feedback and suggestions. I worked with what the lore and missions gave me.

Starborn: Highest level, increased damage and other resistances. Increased speed, body type variety, and size scaling. For strongest Starborn, Stats based on the Hunter. Lower level than my Royal Starborn mod, and no tweaks to either NPC or player powers. (Large update coming to Royal Starborn in a day or two, feel free to wait). If you want even stronger Starborn, load any version of Royal Starborn after this.

House Va'Ruun: Outside of Starborn, these are the most buffed and tweaked enemies. House Va'Ruun tends to be tall and thin, hinting at their brutal culture and that perhaps they are spending a lot of time living in space (based on the Serpent's Embrace perk). These enemies scale to the highest levels and generally have the highest movement speed. They are weaker than my overhauled Starborn, but tend to be modestly stronger than any other faction. Vanilla Va'Ruun had very high resistances and these are maintained. They will resist energy and particle weapons more than anything apart from Starborn (keeping the exact vanilla values for Va'Ruun stats, whereas the Starborn had to be buffed extensively.)

The First: these are seasoned veterans. This faction gains movement speed, a few gain space suits to ensure compatibility with PoI Faction Diversity. Load second. As they are just humans, they do not level significantly higher than other leveled enemies mods. The First have the strongest robots and turrets, given their history with mechs.

Robots: Robots used in Starborn Facilities will now scale slightly stronger than other robots. Robots will mostly scale in quality (level and speed) based on the faction they are supporting. A Starborn's Model A is stronger than a lowly Spacer's Model A.

Robots are still quite fragile, just as in the base game, but take reduced damage to the limbs since they don't really need them to survive, slightly reduced body shot damage as they are made of metal. Headshots unchanged; didn't want to make them into bullet sponges. These values are subtle, but I wanted robots to stop being an absolute joke without tweaking their level or HP too high. If you want any other headshot/body damage tweaks, load it after this mod and it will be fully compatible.

Robot movement speed increased at highest levels, and leveling tweaked to match the faction they are supporting. Robots will now scale in quality to match their faction.

The highest level list version of most robots gains increased movement speed. If you want really tough robots, add something like beefy robits to load after this, but the values I included are about as hard as felt fun for me, alongside level scaling.

Crimson Fleet: the boss enemies are significantly stronger, but I didn't want this faction to feel too much more powerful. There are some relatively skillful, fully armored grunts, but the weakest enemies and recruits are only a little stronger than spacers. Body types and movement speed tweaked. Melee enemies buffed the most, with speed increased to 130 so they are harder to kite. This faction has the most variability-- some grunts will be little more than spacers, with some bosses rivaling House Va'Ruun. Enemy body types tend to vary significantly, with more muscular enemies at the highest ranks.

Ecliptic: While their grunts are consistently powerful, Ecliptic's bosses and officers are not quite as strong as the best the Crimson Fleet can offer.

Syndicate: Mostly tweaked to give a good experience when used alongside POI Faction Diversity, these enemies are slightly stronger. Note that I do not actually run POI faction diversity myself, as I always play a good guy, so UC/FreeStar bases would just be a waste of space for me. I did not manually tweak too many UC or FreeStar enemies, but any leveled any mod used as a basecoat should get to them.

(I am not 100% sure if this covers every NPC added by POI faction diversity, as I think POI faction diversity adds its own new NPCs. I can patch if it doesn't; very often, NPCs pull stats from templates and don't actually need to be tweaked to add leveling as long as the templates were tweaked.)

If someone who plays it can confirm it's needed, I can make a patch to cover all enemies in POI faction diversity rapidly and easily.

Spacers: The weakest faction, these gain some tweaks to their bosses, but some grunts scale as low as 0.9 player level. I want a diverse world-- and a fully leveled Starborn should not necessarily struggle to get through a rag-tag spacer base. In general, they tend to be scrawnier than other factions. They're barely getting by.

Spacer boss enemies can still be quite challenging and fast-moving, but not as much as other factions.

Since the overall "human" template is used by tons of miscellaneous enemies, some human bosses, melee, shotgun, and heavy weapon users will be slightly buffed even if they are not specifically mentioned here.

Named Boss NPCs: Some of these named boss NPCs were just so weak, they made me feel guilty to kill. If you're the boss of a quest line (and I found you in xEdit), you will take a few headshots to kill now at a minimum. There are still many that I'm missing, but every bit helps. I will probably do numerous small optional updates as I add more Named enemies.

If you come across a Named Unique enemy (or really any enemy)that feels like they are too weak, leave me a comment and I'll get to them. If you are able to get the FormID, using detailed referencei info, it will make it very fast and easy for me to tweak any enemy that doesn't feel just right in your playthrough.

Out-of-the-way Quest Spoiler:
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Cloned enemies received some modest enhancements. Some Easter Egg enemies you may only encounter once have been buffed to match the lore surrounding them.

UC/FreeStar: Barely touched. I just added some scaling to a few overly common NPCs. I might revisit these enemies later and for now, other leveling mods will handle them. Some will benefit from the overall human templates changed above.

What's Missing: Some named NPCs. I have not yet figured out how to get Hunter/Emissary to level above 100. If anyone can take a look in xEdit and tell me what to change or what value I missed-- much appreciated.

Compatible/Recommended:

Load other mods that affect headshot damage after this one.

Load Royal Unique Human NPCS after anything that touches NPC leveled lists (everything below) except my Royal Starborn mod, which is harder.

Whichever mod you load lists wins all NPC record conflicts. Load this mod after all of the following:

Now Compatible with More Weapons/More Armor Thanks to HaiTan95!
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/7695?tab=files
Load their patch after this mod. Compatible with latest version and all optional files, just load after.

This mod is a nice difficulty increase as it puts better weapons on enemies and they benefit from the perks; but I just can't get it to stop showering me with infinite loot.
I prefer to answer questions via posts right here on the file rather than DMs or Discord so that others can read answers, explanations, etc. right here on the mod. However, I'm happy to help wherever you prefer. I can be found on the Starfield Modding discord to chat or brainstorm.

Created because I think a leveled world that is diverse and fun is essential to this game's long-term replayability and end-game.

I am a writer and teacher, staying up way past my bedtime to work on Starfield. Any support appreciated.
I love screenshots, nice comments, and endorsements. =)

Created because I want every detail flawless to go with my main list-making hobby:

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