Starfield mod transforms the Adoring Fan into ‘a combat machine’
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A newStarfieldmod has gone out of its way to buff the Adoring Fan - the iconic (and rather irritating) companion character first seen inThe Elder Scrolls4: Oblivion.
The Adoring Fan is one ofStarfield’s most infamous NPCs, solely due to his oldOblivionroots. SinceOblivion’s release, he became an icon of annoyance, following players around incessantly and praising everything they do. In the 2006 game, it is possible to get rid of him, but it’s not exactly straightforward - hence the internet’s glorious reaction when it was first confirmed that he’d be donning a space suit to follow you to the depths of space inStarfield.
InStarfield, the Adoring Fan will accompany you if you select the ‘Hero Worshiped’ trait when you create your character. Again, you don’t have to be stuck with him forever, but assuming that you enjoy his company and would like to transform him into an unstoppable “combat machine,” then Nexus Mods user InquisitorOverhaulsReturn has got you covered.
‘Juiced Adoring Fan’ gives the infamous NPC four new perks, as well as rank four in Sharpshooting, Ballistics, Marksmanship and Rifle Certification. That’s an enormous upgrade on his current skills, which are currently only really helpful for carrying things and scavenging. In addition, he’ll also give players five times more gifts than usual.
“I wanted to make him really strong for people who would like him to be more combat based,” the mod’s description reads. “Vanilla [Adoring Fan] is useless. So this makes him a combat machine.”
It’s always worth keeping in mind with unofficial mods like these to exercise caution before downloading them, but if you want to check it out, you canfind it on Nexus Mods.
Modders have been hard at work adding new features and changes toStarfieldever since it launched. It took very little time for us to get a mod thatreplaces the flashlight’s rays with a projection of game director Todd Howard’s face, for example. Officialmodding tools are on the way toStarfieldat some point next year, too, at which point we can probably expect even more fan-made tweaks and changes to become available.
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