Possible to edit everyone's health in Unofficial Patch?

[Taberone]

Is it possible to edit everyone's health stats in Unofficial Patch? I'm looking in Steam\steamapps\common\Vampire The Masquerade - Bloodlines\Unofficial_Patch\vdata\system but I don't see anything so far that looks like it will let me edit how much health everyone has (ex. Ming Xiao, who is apparently spongy as hell)

I'm specifically looking to mod the game to my liking by giving everyone lower health, including the player.

[Yoinkyz]

worry about it when ye get there

[Taberone]

The tutorial is a bit misleading on how spongy enemies are. Gangbangers in the tutorial take two shots to kill from the .38, the Astrolite guys take four shots to kill. Damn. a 2x DMG or 2x Less HP mod would go a long way towards making combat more satisfying, personally.

[Vepar]

Or...

Now that you "know" how "bullet spongy" late game bosses are, why not instead plan your playthrough accordingly and get your skills to the level that you can best them. Save the best ammo for later, use mid level guns till then, don't waste unique blood that you find and make sure you get every occult item you can?
Maybe?
The game gives you plenty of tools to wipe the floor with them, you just have to pay attention.

Or just use cheats because 2x damage is basically that. Everything will die too easily in 1 hit. So why not cut the middle man and just use console commands?
Give yourself xp, godmode, all disciplines and infinite blood and just spam pestilence at Ming till death.

[Taberone]

Not just 2x DMG for me, but 2x DMG for everyone. I always like to mod games to be like that so everyone dies equally. Player deals 2x DMG but takes 2x DMG at the very minimum.

Even the player is a bit spongy, too. I know vampires in this game are supposed to be hard to kill, but it's a bit ridiculous how many shots I can soak up from the Astrolite gangbangers.

Modified the OP to better clarify my intentions.

[Wesp5]

The files you need to edit are the NPCtemplate files in the vdata/system folder.

[Taberone]

Originally posted by wesp5:

The files you need to edit are the NPCtemplate files in the vdata/system folder.

Thanks. Do those files also let me edit how much max health the player has, too?

[Wesp5]

That's probably stored in stats.txt...

[Taberone]

Found a stat called "Max_Health" which defaults at "100" on lines 439-453 at the "stats.txt" file. Setting that to "50" should result in the PC having less health, I presume, but what about stats_hunter and stats_vampire files?

I also edited every last "npc template" file I found to give everyone 2x less health at the very minimum. Hopefully, both the player and all NPCs have less health in order to reduce the bulletsponge on both sides.

Do I need to start a new game for my changes to take affect? I'm still in the early-game so I won't lose too much progress. I just met the Harley Quinn-looking vampire.

[Wesp5]

Stats_hunter and stats_vampire are only needed if you switch between hunter and vampire in multiplayer. You should copy your edited file to stats_vampire just to make sure it isn't reset... Oh, and I also recommend to start a new game.