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Improved Borg Portraits (ST: New Horizons Only)
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Improved Borg Portraits (ST: New Horizons Only)

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Every time I saw the plasticy, placeholderish skin of the Borg in the New Horizons mod, I grit my teeth. It looked wrong. It drove me absolutely crazy. The Borg I love have this mottled, necrotic-looking flesh but these guys looked like they were made by Fisher Price!

So, I took it upon myself to rectify this matter and give these guys some nice, sickly skin. I've replaced the skin of the default Borg race (the ones from the Unicomplex), and improved the skin overlays used for the assimilated, human-looking races. The overlays, obviously, aren't as good as actually creating new portraits for every race, but I prefer to retain my sanity. So, for any race that used those assets (the overwhelming majority), you should find that instead of them looking flat and sometimes excessively healthy-looking, they now have this nice pale, mottled skin.
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Dark Helmet  [author] Apr 4, 2018 @ 1:05pm 
It should be fairly simple. Haven't played since 1.9.1, but I'll take a look at it.
kerrigan1603 Apr 3, 2018 @ 2:21pm 
Dark Helmet@ How difficult would be the possibility of a patch be?
tilarium Jan 22, 2018 @ 12:04pm 
Ah bummer. Thanks for letting me know!
Dark Helmet  [author] Jan 22, 2018 @ 11:55am 
I'm afraid not, cmo3056's mod uses different names for the directories, entities as well as the files themselves.
tilarium Jan 22, 2018 @ 12:03am 
Used this in my last NH game but decided to give Star Trek a rest for a bit... for the most part. I installed the Borg race that cmo3056 ported from NH (with permission) and was wondering if this would work with those Borg as well.
Dark Helmet  [author] Jan 20, 2018 @ 4:01am 
That sounds like it should make Borg pop mechanics just about perfect, and my Steam username will do just fine as far as any credit is concerned.
walshicus Jan 20, 2018 @ 1:22am 
Basically just to represent the original Borg species pre-assimilation. Should you get some Borg pops as a non-Borg race that you de-assimilate, they'll then get that clothing set.

Similarly, we're changing how the Borg Cooperative and Unimatrix Zero work so that they'll have a "partially assimilated" trait that only shows the head prosthetics.


Re: integration - I'm happy to do the work to align both sets if you like. How would you like to be credited? Steam username or something else?
Dark Helmet  [author] Jan 19, 2018 @ 6:22pm 
@walshicus, I'd be happy to see these assets incorporated into the main mod, but fair warning, I added new asset selectors for the base race and I can't be sure how/if that might conflict with any upcoming changes.

I noticed the unassimilated clothing when I was perusing the files, but never gave them much thought. What're they for?
walshicus Jan 19, 2018 @ 9:12am 
STNH Dev here. Happy to bring your changes into the main mod if you want!
Borg species will change a little bit in next update - has an unassimilated portrait and clothing option.