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[WOTC] Styr's Old Species Modules Rebalance

After playing some amount of time with AU aliens, and making a handful of my own species modules, I've noticed that a couple of the old modules from RealityMachina missed the mark a little bit. Some of them just had overtuned stats (Twi'leks and Asari), others were way overpowered (Salarians), and one of them just didn't bring any new gameplay features (Turians). So, after noticing that I was half-considering dropping these species for my next run, I decided to, instead, fix them myself.

I'll go over each species and mention what sort of stats they ended up with and what abilities they get, as well as what changed from the "regular" RM's version of them.


The Asari were pretty solid overall. My two minor nitpicks were: 1. The 2 ShieldHP was supposed to even out to the 4 HP a rookie regularly has; however, this was not the case unless you were playing on Legendary difficulty. I've normalized their HP so that, at mission start, they have the same amount of HP as a rookie; through their shield regeneration, they'll get more HP long-term. 2. 20 PsiOffense is. Insane. I've still kept it pretty high, but I've squashed it down to a more reasonable 15 at the higher difficulties.

Let's get straight to the point: Ready For Anything given out for free at rookie is beyond busted--so that's out--, and so is the other ability they get; let's start fresh.
So, abilities: the salarians get 1 ability now, still called Salarian Reflexes, that grants them a +15 Aim bonus to reaction fire, as well as dodge based on their distance from the attacker, up to 25 dodge. Stat-Wise: our little amphibian friends have average aim, slightly higher mobility (13) some base dodge (that stacks with the dodge given by Salarian Reflexes), and 20 hack stat to reflect their superior intellect. They kept their lower will when compared to humans, and got a defense stat of -5, to counter all that dodge they can stockpile (defense penalty absent at lower difficulties).

Turians were the reason this project started. Plain and simple: they were boring--and that's much greater a sin than being overpowered. They played the same as humans, but they had higher stats. Let's start from scratch.
Abilities: Turians now have two (2) whole abilities well, actually, one ability that does two things but I digress. Their iron will and military training makes them immune to Panic; and, whenever they are fighting side-by-side with the rest of their squad (i.e. they are adjacent to an ally), they gain a +10 Aim bonus and reduces the chance that either one of them will be critically hit by -20%. Stat-Wise: the only difference our murderous avians have when compared to humans is their unshakeable will--reflected by a much higher Will Stat (upwards of 13 more points on average).

The reasoning behind this one was two-fold: 1. 20 dodge (or even more at lower difficulties) is OP. I've knocked it down to a more sensible 10. 2. Other than the dodge, the rest of their kit was in a weird limbo. The one-turn stealth was either amazing if you had Shadowstrike, or completely pointless. So I've given them a second ability to make up for the lower stats. They now get Encourage a NTE action that gives an ally the Twi'lek can see a+15 Aim bonus for the rest of the turn--and an even greater bonus if used on a fellow Twi'lek. It's also situational, but hopefully less pointless for the vast majority of builds than the one-turn stealth.

Well, most of it is. The numbers on the abilities and even if the active ones are NTE or not can be changed through config.

If you liked some of my reworks but not all of them, it is possible to disable the ability-replacement too (though you'll have to comment out the stat changes yourself if you want those gone).

Safe? Yes. It should seamlessly apply to any newly generated aliens. Will the changes retroactively apply to existing aliens? Short answer: not a clue. Feel free to test it, if you want to be a trailblazer, or just keep this one aside til you start up your next campaign.

I might get to it, I might not. We'll see. These are the species I've used and felt as though they needed another pass. If I try out some other old ones, and I feel like they need it, they might be reworked in the future.

If you play LWOTC with Allies Unknown (for the love of gods with the appropriate bridge mod). I have added a bonus to infiltration time to both the Twi'leks and the Salarians. Enjoy :)


Many thanks to RealityMachina for everything he has done for the community and for creating these modules in the first place (as well as Allies Unknown in general). And thanks to EvilBob, although this time the ability icons are of my own making, he always helps brainstorm designs or ways to improve them. Special shout-out to Fancyneer for the awesome pose pack I've used to make the thumbnail.

If you don't already have it, grab Allies Unknown Redux² it's full of bugfixes and stuff, check it out :)