Immersive Space Travel and Landings and Other Configs

[Krixa]

There is so much misinformation from the haters/naysayers all over the place. Most peeps are so lazy to not even do just a little research before continuing the misinformation based upon 'Youtubers'.

Should all of this be part of the game? It mostly is already......just not configured like this. Bethesda went for the lazy gamer approach with instant access to quick travel because they would have been flamed to no end about more realistic travel times in space. Can you imagine the flaming? Nuclear! hahaha

Funny side note.....
Peeps here state Star Citizen Immersion for space travel....I play it and know/hear....one of the FIRST THINGS peeps do in Star Citizen is move their home to one of the orbital space stations.....wait for it.....here it comes.....to eliminate the time that it takes to go from ground to space. Orison (older version) took awhile in the slower ships. Ohhhh the whining from players. Hahaha. Also.....Elite Dangerous had some nifty timing that could be done when approaching a planet in Supercruise to eliminate flybys and reduce the time for gravitational deceleration (made the planet approach realistic but take awhile). Both of those games do have loading screens between space and planet. Just more cleverly disguised. Bethesda does sort of have the ED style already.....just implemented a quick black screen in the middle of it. hahaha.

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A Gift to the Community.....and maybe even the grouchy trolls can sleep for awhile. hahaha
Enjoy a better Starfield Space Experience! *hugs*

So here are some options that you can use right now for a much better and realistic space experience. Most of these are not even mods in the 'normal sense'....ie esm esp esl Most of this are setting Globals which are already in the game. It is how the game functions.

To set Global Variable Configurations it is super simple to do:
- StarfieldCustom.ini
[Archive]
bInvalidateOlderFiles=1
sResourceDataDirsFinal=
[General]
sStartingConsoleCommand=bat a_startup

Note: Make certain the [Archive] is at the very top for Starfield or some things will not work correctly in game.

- Create a Text File named a_startup.txt in \My Games\Starfield
(notice it is the same above).
- Add the stuff to a_startup.txt (I will paste mine below)
- This bat file will be initialized at every start. Basically it is automating typing all of this in the Console.

Nexusmods (You can search for these yourself by the name of the mod so no links):

- Longer Spaceship Travel
This is not a normal mod. It is a Global Variable setting. Much more immersive space transitions.

- Travel Between Planets Without Fast Travel
These are Global Configs and Hotkeys (or Console Bat files....options). Please see my posts since they are still at the top. The reply I did to my own post adds the method for hotkeys for a smoother experience. A few of us figured this out and refined it early in Starfield's release. The travel ends up being very similar to Elite Dangerous. Once close to your destination though you still need to 'Load' into the planet/moon because of the triggering of game loading scripts and sequences for cell generation.

Note: Each Starfield Star System is in fact one very large cell. It is BIG....like Space BIG. Sure it is smoke and mirrors with math but you CAN travel seamlessly between planets/moons in this system. System to System Travel has to be a Grav Jump because of LY distances. Even LS is very large and Bethesda has implemented it in this game.

- Ships Need Gas and other immersive ship systems
Works great and interfaces well with the ship. All from a tablet. Not buggy either. There is a companion mod to this next. Excellent modder too.

- Ship Weapons Use Ammo
This does work well but I found that it can be a little buggy. So I removed the patch from above and just use it. No doubt once the CK is available this will be fixed properly.

- Landing Animation Reloaded
Immersive landings every time. I use the immersive pilot view option and it is very good. No bugs like a couple of the other mod options. Excellent modder too.

So now you have the space travel immersion mods. So here are some handy configs you can use and tweak how you want. These are what i play with. I am sure there will be some minor adjustments to this latest May Patch once it is fully released to compensate for the new toggle options we have. From what I saw it will not be much work at all.

[Krixa]

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These have some very nice camera fixes as well. I also enabled NPCs use ammo.
I left the sTestFile= references. This is how the current Stafield uses mods. We are limited to 10 this way. Once the CK is released we will be able to fully use the Plugins.txt method.....or whatever it will be called for Starfield. So for the time being.....try to limit your actual mods to 10. All the mods I have below are excellent.

StarfieldCustom.ini

[Archive]
bInvalidateOlderFiles=1
sResourceDataDirsFinal=
[General]
sStartingConsoleCommand=bat a_startup
sTestFile1=EverybodyDanceNow.esm
sTestFile2=AuroraDurationAndEffects.esm
sTestFile3=LinkedCompanionSuit.esm
sTestFile4=
sTestFile5=MoreImmersiveLandingsTakeOffs.esm
sTestFile6=ImmersiveShipSystems.esm
sTestFile7=ImmersiveLandingRamps.esm
sTestFile8=SpaceShipLandingReloaded.esm
;sTestFile9=
;sTestFile10=
SIntroSequence=0
uMainMenuDelayBeforeAllowSkip=0
bEnableMessageOfTheDay=0
bAlwaysActive=1
[Menu]
bUseConsoleHotkeys=1
;aConsoleSelectedRefColor="255,0,0,20"
[Display]
sPhotoModeFolder=Photos
bDepthOfFieldEnable=1
bPilotCameraShakerEnabled=0
[Camera]
fFPWorldFOV=90
fTPWorldFOV=90
fFPPlayerFOV=90
fActorFadeOutBoundMax=0
;fFarCameraDistanceOffset=6.0
fFreeRotationDialogueSpeed=3.0
fMouseWheelZoomIncrement=0.1
fAutoVanityIncrement=0.065
fDefaultAutoVanityZoom=1.75
bDisableAutoVanityMode=0
[ThirdPersonCam]
;b3rdPersonAimUseWeaponFOV=0
;f3rdPersonAimFOV=90
[FlightCamera]
fFlightCameraFOV=90.000
fFlightCameraOffsetBaseY=-45.000                        
fFlightCameraSpeedOffsetMinX=-1.500                    
fFlightCameraSpeedOffsetMinY=-1.500                    
fFlightCameraSpeedOffsetMinZ=-1.500                    
fFlightCameraSpeedOffsetMaxX=-1.500                    
fFlightCameraSpeedOffsetMaxY=-1.500                        
fFlightCameraSpeedOffsetMaxZ=-1.500                    
fFlightCameraOffsetMaxLandedDistance=200.000                
fFlightCameraOffsetMaxLandingHeightOffset=200.000                
fDefaultShipAutoVanityZoomScale=4.500
[Dialogue]
fDialogueCameraCollisionMinPercentage=3.5
fDialogueCameraCollisionRadius=3.5
fDialogueCameraFailsafeFPFOV=90.0
fDialogueCameraOffscreenBorder=3.5
bDialogueCameraSkipNPCtoNPCCamera=1
[Controls]
fQCZKeyDelay=0.3
fZKeyDelay=0.15
bFlightControlInvertPitch=0
[Combat]
bForceNPCsUseAmmo=1

[Krixa]

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a_startup.txt
Note: this needs to be located in \My Games\Starfield
Previous titles it was in the game install root. ie \Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim

There are a lot of great game configurations below. Drink and Food fixes....AI.....Ship Speed by default (related to the Immersive Space Travel).....better follower distance....Economy and Leveling....Space War....Biome Density changes for more realism....More. Remove what you want or keep it all for a better game.

:::::: Copy from below here.

;Mouse Zoom Speed
setgs "f3rdPersonAimFOVAnimateSec:ThirdPersonCam" 0.01

;Economy and Leveling
setgs fXPModBase 0.15
setgs fVendorSellPriceMult 0.0

;Follower closer and better following at start up
setgs fFollowExtraCatchUpSpeedMult 0
setgs fFollowPlayerAlwaysSprintDistance 15
setgs fFollowPlayerformationStopNewPathPoint 6

;More immersive travel cutscenes
setgs fSpaceshipFarTravelDepartureDuration 8.1
setgs fSpaceshipFarTravelEndFadeOutDuration 0.25

;Smoother and more Consistent ship controls in Flight Mode
setav spaceshipenginepartmaxforwardspeed 150
setav spaceshipenginepartmaxbackwardspeed 150
setav spaceshipforwardspeedmult 50
setav spaceshipboostspeed 5
sgtm 1

;---PILOT FREELOOK LIMITS--- VANILLA = 40 60 20 // Allows for wider panning of the camera around the cockpit when landed
setgs fSpaceshipPilotFirstPersonFreeLookLimitSides 100
setgs fSpaceshipPilotFirstPersonFreeLookLimitUp 90
setgs fSpaceshipPilotFirstPersonFreeLookLimitDown 35

;NPC Head Tracking. Less Staring at the Player. Values of 5 to 10 work for cutscenes and things
setgs fAIMaxHeadTrackDistanceFromPC 5

;More Brains AI Adjustment (Default is 20)
setgs iAINumberActorsComplexScene 60
setgs iNumberActorsInCombatPlayer 60

;---Drink Duration---

;DrinkDur_Convenience_01_Small 180
set 2B97F6 to 360
;This is a duplicate because there is an issue that the first line sometimes doesn't get recognized if using too many bats. 
set 2B97F6 to 360

;DrinkDur_Convenience_02_Medium 300
set 2B97F7 to 600

;DrinkDur_Convenience_XPBonus 900
set 2B97F8 to 1800

;DrinkDur_HighEnd_01_Small 180
set 2B97F9 to 360

;DrinkDur_HighEnd_02_Medium 300
set 2B97FA to 600

;DrinkDur_HighEnd_03_Large 600
set 2B97FB to 1200

;DrinkDur_HighEnd_ReloadSpeed 60
set 2B97FC to 120

;DrinkDur_HighEnd_XPBonus_01_Small 900
set 2B97FD to 1800

;DrinkDur_HighEnd_XPBonus_02_Medium 1800
set 2B97FE to 3600

;DrinkDur_SlowTime 10
set 2B97FF to 20


;---Food Duration---

;FoodDur_Conv_01_Short 300
set 2B981A to 600

;FoodDur_HighEnd_01_Short 300
set 2B981B to 600

;FoodDur_HighEnd_02_Medium 480
set 2B981C to 960

;FoodDur_HighEnd_03_Long 600
set 2B981D to 1200

;FoodDur_HighEnd_04_XLong 720
set 2B981E to 1440

;FoodDur_HighEnd_XPBonus_01_Small 1800
set 2B981F to 3600

;FoodDur_HighEnd_XPBonus_02_Medium 3600
set 2B9820 to 7200

;FoodDur_HighEnd_XPBonus_03_Large 7200
set 2B9821 to 14400

;FoodDur_Raw_01_Short 180
set 2B9822 to 360


;---Food Healing---

;FoodMag_Value_RestoreHealth_Convenience_01_Small 3
set 2B9826 to 15

;FoodMag_Value_RestoreHealth_Convenience_02_Medium 5
set 2B9827 to 25

;FoodMag_Value_RestoreHealth_Convenience_03_Large 10
set 2B9828 to 50

;FoodMag_Value_RestoreHealth_HighEnd_01_VerySmall 2
set 2B9830 to 10

;FoodMag_Value_RestoreHealth_HighEnd_02_Small 3
set 2B9831 to 15

;FoodMag_Value_RestoreHealth_HighEnd_02_SmallMedium 4
set 2CE5DD to 20

;FoodMag_Value_RestoreHealth_HighEnd_03_Medium 5
set 2B9832 to 25

;FoodMag_Value_RestoreHealth_HighEnd_04_Large 10
set 2B9833 to 50

;FoodMag_Value_RestoreHealth_HighEnd_05_XLarge 15
set 2B9834 to 75

;FoodMag_Value_RestoreHealth_HighEnd_06_Huge 20
set 2B9835 to 100

;FoodMag_Value_RestoreHealth_HighEnd_07_XHuge 25
set 2B9836 to 125

;FoodMag_Value_RestoreHealth_Raw_01_Small 2
set 2B9837 to 10

;FoodMag_Value_RestoreHealth_Raw_02_Medium 3
set 2B9838 to 15

;---Chem Duration---

;ChemDur_Standard_01 60
set 2D3975 to 120

;ChemDur_Standard_02 120
set 2D3976 to 240

;ChemDur_Standard_03 180
set 2D3977 to 360

;ChemDur_Standard_04 300
set 2D3978 to 600

;ChemDur_Standard_05 600
set 2D3979 to 1200

;ChemDur_Standard_06 900
set 2D3984 to 1800


;---Space War---

;Space spawn chances
;Vanilla: 25.00 (SE_Chance_CivilizedInUncivilizedSpace)
set 00000B70 to 37.5
;Vanilla: 100.00 (SE_Chance_CivilizedInCivilizedSpace)
set 00000B71 to 150
;Vanilla: 25.00 (SE_Chance_UncivilizedInCivilizedSpace)
set 00000B73 to 75
;Vanilla: 50.00 (SE_Player_ChanceUniqueGlobal)
set 0019D845 to 75
;Vanilla: 50.00 (SE_Player_ChanceRareGlobal)
set 0019D846 to 75
;Vanilla: 40.00 (SE_Player_ChanceCommonGlobal)
set 0019D847 to 60
;Vanilla 50.00 (SE_Player_ChanceSerpentisVaruunGlobal)
set 002EA969 to 75
;Vanilla 30.00 (SE_Player_ChanceBountyShipsGlobal)
set 000C3832 to 45
;Vanilla 35.00 (SE_Player_ChanceTraitWantedGlobal)
set 002E7890 to 52.5
;Vanilla 20.00 (SE_ChanceUniqueGlobal)
set 0012B445 to 30
;Vanilla 50.00 (SE_ChanceRareGlobal)
set 0012B446 to 75

;---Density---

;Vanilla = 1.3 (PCM_BiomeDensity_High)
set 2EDD35 to 1.6
;This is a duplicate because there is an issue that the first line sometimes doesn't get recognized if using too many bats. 
set 2EDD35 to 1.6
;Vanilla = 1.0 (PCM_BiomeDensity_High_NoLife) 1
set 2EDD38 to 1.3
;Vanilla = 0.7 (PCM_BiomeDensity_Low)
set 2EDD37 to 0.3
;Vanilla = 0.5 (PCM_BiomeDensity_Low_NoLife)
set 2EDD39 to 0.1
;Vanilla = 0.0 (PCM_BiomeDensity_None)
set 2EDD3B to 0
;Vanilla = 1.0 (PCM_BiomeDensity_Normal)
set 2EDD36 to 0.85
;Vanilla = 0.7 (PCM_BiomeDensity_Normal_NoLife)
set 2EDD3A to 0.55

;---Distance where things can spawn from each other---

;Vanilla = 250 (PCM_BlockCreationMinDensity_Nearby)
set 2CD250 to 125
;Vanilla = 600 (PCM_BlockCreationMinDensity_POI)
set 25ECD1 to 300
;Vanilla = 400 (PCM_BlockCreationMinDensity_Standard)
set 25ECD0 to 200
;Vanilla = 1000 (PCM_BlockCreation_NearOESettlement)
set 12D2F1 to 750

;---Idle Time, Reaction Time---

;vanilla = 0.25
setgs fCombatMeleeIdleTime 0.01
setgs fCombatMeleeIdleTime 0.01
;vanilla = 0.5
setgs fCombatRangedGrenadeIdleTime 0.1

;vanilla = 2
setgs fCombatRangedGunFireWaitTimeMax 0.3
;vanilla = 0.25
setgs fCombatEvadeReactionTime 0.15
;vanilla = 0.15
setgs fCombatDodgeReactionTime 0.1
;vanilla = 2.5
setgs fCombatRangedGunAnimationDrivenDelayTime 0.25
;vanilla = 1.5
setgs fCombatAttackAnimationDrivenDelayTime 0.15
;vanilla = 0.25
setgs fCombatInitialMovementDelayTime 0.01
;vanilla = 0.1
setgs fCombatRangedGunInitialDelayTime 0.01

;vanilla = 0.33
setgs fCombatRangedGunTargetVisibleReactionTimeMin 0.01
;vanilla = 0.67
setgs fCombatRangedGunTargetVisibleReactionTimeMax 0.3

;---Combat AI, Behavior---

;vanilla = 5
setgs fCombatRangedThrowDelay 6
;vanilla = 10
setgs fCombatRangedGrenadeThrowDelay 6
;vanilla = 15
setgs fCombatRangedGrenadeFlushTargetDelay 6
;vanilla = 5
setgs fCombatRangedGrenadeThrowUnreachableDelay 4

;vanilla = 0.1
setgs fCombatRangedGunAttackChanceMin 0.25
;vanilla = 0.25
setgs fCombatRangedGrenadeThrowChanceMax 0.35

;vanilla = 0.1
setgs fCombatCoverAdvanceChanceMin 0.2
;vanilla = 0.5
setgs fCombatCoverAdvanceChanceMid 0.5
;vanilla = 0.75
setgs fCombatCoverAdvanceChanceMax 0.85
;vanilla = 0.5
setgs fCombatRangedGunAttackChanceCoverBonus 0.65
;vanilla = 0.25
setgs fCombatCoverChangePositionChance 0.4
;vanilla = 0.5
setgs fCombatFallbackChanceMax 0.5

;vanilla = 10
setgs fCombatCoverAttackerSuppressedTimeMax 15
;vanilla = 0.25
setgs fCombatRangedGrenadeThrowChanceMax 0.35
;vanilla = 0.5
setgs fCombatRangedGunTargetVisibleAttackThreshold 0.4

;vanilla = 4
setgs fCombatRangedMinimumRange 4
;vanilla = 8
setgs fCombatRangedGrenadeThrowMinimumRange 6

;vanilla = 0.4
setgs fCombatRangedGunAccuracyMinAccuracy 0.6
;vanilla = 0.25
setgs fCombatRangedGunAccurateAccuracy 0.4
;vanilla = 0.1
setgs fCombatRangedGunEffectiveAccuracy 0.17

[Krixa]

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Hotkeys :: You can use these if you want but I always set up Quick Save (F9) and Quick Load (F10) in my Beth games. Adjust how you see fit. You may need to copy StarfieldCustom.ini and rename it to below. INI files are specially formatted files.

Below has the codes attached to the hotkeys. To adjust your space travel speeds you do it here. The new 150/150 default is applied at startup in the bat file above....which is the same as F4 below.

Below also includes my configs for a walking toggle with appropriate speeds for Walking, Jogging, and Running. They work great and can easily be adjusted to how you like. Keep what your hotkey assignments are in a References.txt file that has other notes and such you want to keep track of while playing. Notepad++ is an excellent text editor for this and many other things.

F1 :: Follower Close Mode
F2 :: Follower Relax Mode
F3 :: Available
F4 :: Flight Mode
F5 :: Orbit Cruise Mode
F6 :: Interplanetary Cruise Mode
F7 :: Player Walk Speed
F8 :: Player Jog Speed
F9 :: Quick Save
F10 :: Quick Load
F11 :: Toggle HUD/UI
F12 :: Steam Screenshot

StarfieldConsole.ini
:::::: Copy from below here.

[Hotkeys]
F1=setgs fFollowExtraCatchUpSpeedMult 0;setgs fFollowPlayerAlwaysSprintDistance 15;setgs fFollowPlayerformationStopNewPathPoint 6;setgs fAIFurnitureDestinationRadius 10;cgf "Debug.Notification" "FOLLOWER WILL BE CLOSE"
F2=setgs fFollowExtraCatchUpSpeedMult 0;setgs fFollowPlayerAlwaysSprintDistance 100;setgs fFollowPlayerformationStopNewPathPoint 6;setgs fAIFurnitureDestinationRadius 10;cgf "Debug.Notification" "FOLLOWER WILL BE RELAXED"
F4=setav spaceshipenginepartmaxforwardspeed 150;setav spaceshipenginepartmaxbackwardspeed 150;setav spaceshipforwardspeedmult 50;setav spaceshipboostspeed 5;sgtm 1;cgf "Debug.Notification" "ENGAGING FLIGHT MODE"
F5=setav spaceshipenginepartmaxforwardspeed 100000;setav spaceshipenginepartmaxbackwardspeed 100000;setav spaceshipforwardspeedmult 250;setav spaceshipboostspeed 1;sgtm 2;cgf "Debug.Notification" "ENGAGING ORBIT CRUISE MODE"
F6=setav spaceshipenginepartmaxforwardspeed 10000000;setav spaceshipenginepartmaxbackwardspeed 1000000;setav spaceshipforwardspeedmult 500;setav spaceshipboostspeed 1;sgtm 3;cgf "Debug.Notification" "ENGAGING INTERPLANETARY CRUISE MODE"
F7=player.forceav speedmult 130
F8=player.forceav speedmult 75
F11=tm

NumPad+=if player.getav speedmult > 88 && player.getav speedmult < 102;player.modav speedmult 0;elseif player.getav speedmult >= 102 && player.getav speedmult <= 140;player.modav speedmult 4;elseif player.getav speedmult >= 60 && player.getav speedmult <= 84;player.modav speedmult 4;endif  

NumPad-=if player.getav speedmult > 88 && player.getav speedmult < 102;player.modav speedmult 0;elseif player.getav speedmult >= 102 && player.getav speedmult <= 140;player.modav speedmult -4;elseif player.getav speedmult >= 64 && player.getav speedmult <= 88;player.modav speedmult -4;endif