Love the mod overall, but would be a nice feature if talking to the cloaked NPC would trigger the transformation instead of mildly breaking the immersion by being a random mute citizen gone rogue.
Love the concept. Currently testing the mod. Initial observation:
- The Skinshifters are easy to detect because, from what I have seen so far, they have no names and can't be interacted with. In an ideal scenario, they'd have the same name as the original NPC, and that NPCs greeting line. (I assume the latter can't be scripted though?). Even just a name + empty dialogue would help. That still makes them easy to detect, but at least you'd have to talk to them and they won't stick out like a sore thumb. - When killed, they seem to have the inventory of the original NPC. I am pretty sure they did not actually kill the NPC they impersonate, but I can't be 100% on that for now. I assume what you are doing is just copy the inventory so the skinshifters have the same clothing, weapons etc. However, it's a bit odd they would have all those items. - Frequency seems too high. I've come across three now, and all I've done is walk from Riverwood to Whiterun, plus a little off the beaten path exploration near Riverwood. My first encounter with one was actually up at the bandit tower near Bleak Falls. I just assumed he was another bandit.
great mod but for some reasson Aela the Huntress is constently sneaking with her weapon out and walking off since she killed a skinshifter of herself i cant get her to stop even days later and in the compaion quests she still does it
Its a great mod but the skinshifters are just killed off too quickly by npcs. Not sure if this is just a early game issue tho so do the skinshifters grow stronger as you level up?
Or is their difficulty scaled to the npc they clone?
This is truly brilliant idea. If I only could choose one single creature mod I would choose this one. It is a source of countless creepy and funny situations in my game.
on my to whiterun from riverwood i encountered 3 skinshifters on the way one just outside sleeping giant inn. in where it took the form of delphine. (wish it killed her though) the second one was at the hunning brew meadery in where it took the form of nazeem, talos only know's why the poor creature took that Douch'e's form. and finally inside whiterun in where i ran across with two olfrid battleborn.
something tell's me whiterun is getting slowly overrun by skin shifters, but they seem to be picking the wrong person to impersonate.
My SG 126 mod overrides this mod and creates beautiful girls with the same AI and dialogue as the original, but if we are alone, she will turn into a winged monster and attack me , I don't know why but that's great!
TELL ME which npcs have you turned into monsters?! I encountered a skinshifter close to Riverwood. When i searched him i found key to Sven's house and couldn't find Sven anywhere!!! D:
I must say i am really enjoying this mod. Is there any way to change the frequency of these encounters happening though? I like the idea of being caught off guard and being surprised, but lately i seem to be getting one right after the other in Winterhold and its kind of diluting the mods magic. Less is more!
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- The Skinshifters are easy to detect because, from what I have seen so far, they have no names and can't be interacted with. In an ideal scenario, they'd have the same name as the original NPC, and that NPCs greeting line. (I assume the latter can't be scripted though?). Even just a name + empty dialogue would help. That still makes them easy to detect, but at least you'd have to talk to them and they won't stick out like a sore thumb.
- When killed, they seem to have the inventory of the original NPC. I am pretty sure they did not actually kill the NPC they impersonate, but I can't be 100% on that for now. I assume what you are doing is just copy the inventory so the skinshifters have the same clothing, weapons etc. However, it's a bit odd they would have all those items.
- Frequency seems too high. I've come across three now, and all I've done is walk from Riverwood to Whiterun, plus a little off the beaten path exploration near Riverwood. My first encounter with one was actually up at the bandit tower near Bleak Falls. I just assumed he was another bandit.
Seems a tad problematic.
Or is their difficulty scaled to the npc they clone?
on my to whiterun from riverwood i encountered 3 skinshifters on the way one just outside sleeping giant inn.
in where it took the form of delphine. (wish it killed her though) the second one was at the hunning brew meadery in where it took the form of nazeem, talos only know's why the poor creature took that Douch'e's form. and finally inside whiterun in where i ran across with two olfrid battleborn.
something tell's me whiterun is getting slowly overrun by skin shifters, but they seem to be picking the wrong person to impersonate.
I encountered a skinshifter close to Riverwood. When i searched him i found key to Sven's house and couldn't find Sven anywhere!!! D:
Just Jokin ;D