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How to find YOU?

  • YOU? can appear naturally in at least two universes, but we're interested in the one who can become your follower, in universe 1 (which is not the default universe)
  • For how to reach universe 1, see Play Novelly
  • Reportedly, on PC, there's a way to drop YOU? in the Lodge in any universe but I haven't tested it yet, and it might break your save. That comamnd is: setstage 187431 1

More info about YOU?

This is based on the one I've travelled with, unsure if all their backstories are the same.

  • Looks just like you
  • Presumably sounds like you
  • Has a family, even if you don't (Alien DNA)
  • If that family is in game (Kid's Stuff) the twin thing never occurs to them
  • Not romanceable (your Parallel Self isn't either, btw)
  • Comes shadow-equipped with a miner's spacesuit and a "Crew Elite Grendel", which you can upgrade by equipping her with better gear
  • Looks to you as the moral compass (much like the Fan)
  • Determined to make sure you're wearing your suit when you should be
  • Has rather a lot of good lines
  • Chides you more gently than any other Constellation member, only the Fan chides less
  • Really, really wants to learn Powers, but can't in the vanilla game (see next section)

Warnings

I've only seen one serious issue so far. I lost YOU? permanently during the Buried Temple fight (having to reload from an earlier save) with this sequence:

  1. Deep in the Anomaly, in a section of Slayton's building
  2. I cast Gravity Well X to try to suck in lootables from past the sparkling exit cloud
  3. This sucked up YOU? from behind me, and tossed the uncontrolled doll body into the exit cloud
  4. Poof, no more YOU?. Ever.

Followup commands showed that there was still an NPC, with a position, and inventory, but she never appeared, said anything, nor was interactable again, despite cold restarting Starfield.

So, I recommended avoiding sucking YOU? into anomalies with Gravity Well. ;-)

Command heavy wild things you can do with (to?) YOU?

(If you're not familiar with the PC console command interface, this is probably not the place to start)

Adding powers is probably best put in a script in the same directory as Starfield.exe - rough example from my setup (where all my "bat" scripts start with "my-") follows:

; my-me-sb.txt  - to be run with "bat my-me-sb"

prid  1a9054        ; your YOU?'s ID, make sure to check it first!
addkeyword e53a8    ; immunity to terrormorph mind control
; addkeyword 28d935 ; actortype starborn (affects Sense Star Stuff)
; (since Barrett isn't Starborn, obviously YOU? shouldn't be either)

setav starpowerratemult 100   ; These match the player's defaults,
setav starpowerrecoverrate 1  ; but YOU? defaulted higher, so
setav starpower 60            ; I lowered it to match the player.

; Some have obvious combat use and AI support (noted so where I found it),
;   but some other powers might be using something I missed,
;   or not be functional.
;
;;+alien reanimation - has AI - CAVEAT don't give this to followers...
;;  addspell 2c538f  ; \_ together these provide level 1 of a power
;;  addperk  25e19d  ; /                                  (…I think)
;;  addspell 23af10  ; for each increase of power level
;
; Make addspell and addperk commands as above using this table
; (I skipped the second addspell for each to keep them at tier 1)
;
; 1st                later calls to
; addspell  addperk  addspell    -----------AI support / name / notes
;   2bacb6   25e19e    23af06    AI +reactive shield
;   2bacb7   25e195    25e195       +gravity well
;   2c5387   25e187    23af03       +supernova
;   2c5388   25e188    23af04    AI +sunless space
;   2c538b   25e191    23af0a    AI +life forced
;   2c538c   25e196    23af0d    AI +grav dash
;   2c538d   25e19a    23af0e       +creator's peace (I avoided this one)
;   2c5390   25e19b    23af0f       +create vacuum
;   2c5399   25e192    23af0b    AI +inner demon
;   2c5a4e   25e190    23af09    AI +moon form
;   2c5a53   25e186    23af02       +void form
;   2c5a59   25e189    23af05       +solar flare
;   2c5a62   25e193    23af0c    AI +gravity wave
;   2c5a66   25e18d    23af07       +particle beam
;   2c5a67   25e18e    23af08    AI +parallel self
;
; I recommend keeping followers' powers low level, I kept YOU?'s at level 1.
;
; You can reverse all of these to clean up YOU? by swapping out
; the command names with these (I left the starpowers modded)
; 
;   removespell
;   removekeyword
;   removeperk
;
; I named my script to revert YOU? "my-me-rm-sb", if that helps any.
;
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