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Quality of Life Mods

I highly recommend the Reduce LUTs mod down in the texture section. I run at 75% + Contrast. This primarily removes the gray under-saturation. Makes a huge difference for high quality displays, particularly if you have an OLED. Good example comparison: https://imgsli.com/MjA0ODAx/0/6 (make sure to select 75% + contrast on the right dropdown)

It's a bit tricky to setup as by default you can't use a mod manager. You can either extract it directly into your documents game folder (per mod instructions), or do some steps to make it loadable from the game root (guide linked in section).

General UI (Menus etc)

I don't use StarUI, don't like that it cover so much of the item models. However, I believe it's pretty customizable so maybe it can be slimmed down.
*I run all the 60 FPS variants. They don't add frames, but instead speed them up. Thus animations will run faster but still be a little smoother)

Crafting

Sound Stuff

I recommend looking at this after you've played a while and have gotten annoyed about something

HUD Stuff

Other Visual Stuff

Other Mods

Texture Mods

This guide tells you how to disable the Documents data loading so you can install textures easily with mod managers

SFSE

Base Mod SFSE
Addition ASI Loader

  • Hold to Equipt
    Makes it so you can consume food items or read books without picking them up, not compatible with fQCZKeyDelay changes (as this requires a larger delay.
  • Sprint Stutter Fix
  • Longer Outpost Names
    I use this mod because I like to append the elements that are available at an outpost

Other Mods

These are other mods I use that go a little further outside of QoL. Some require SFSE, or other changes, and generally require more than just hitting "Install" in a mod manager.

Tips & Tricks

Tips are useful things to know that fit into the game world, while Tricks are more on the exploit side of things.

Tips

General tips about game play

  • Followers Invite / assign constellation members to your ship crew and talk to them, bonus if you actually assign one to be your follower. Do this even if you take the introvert trait, it will make the story better.
  • Outposts Building Go to your Settings => Controls and adjust the Outpost Item Rotation Speed to make it easier to place things when building
  • Horizontal Boost Jump Bind an a key to the jump alt, using this key will give you a more horizontal boost
  • XP Boost Sleeping (even just one hour) gives you a 10% XP boost and is pretty easy to do before leaving your ship. You can also buy tea from CJ's in the New Atlantis residential district which will give you 2% XP boost for 15m.
  • Gas Giants While you can't land on them, you can still orbit and scan them. Good source of early xp, and basically instant survey data you can sell
  • Junk in my Spaceship Trunk When you modify a ship, all the loose items will be moved to your cargo hold and overtime new items will spawn into your ship. Sell this stuff at your local trade authority kiosk to avoid it piling up.
  • Flight Training There is a flight simulator in the basement of the MAST building which is available upon starting the Vanguard quest line (might be available without it?). Good way to practice fighting. Bonus: Kills in the simulation count towards piloting skill progress.
  • Ship Boosting When boosting your ship, it will use all of your boost by default. If you tap S to stop the boost before it's all used.
  • Moving and Placing Items You can grab a lot of items (even some you can't pick up into your inventory; eg ladders) with a long press of your interact key. You can rotate them with Mouse1 and Mouse2, and change the axis of rotation by hitting Shift once, there are 3 axes.
  • Ship Cargo Access You can access your ships cargo if you are within 250 meters by opening your ship menu (H) and then going to cargo (F)
  • Outpost Building You can access the build menu by opening your scanner (F) and then going to build mode (R)

Tricks

  • Storage Issues Down by the crafting benches in the lodge, there is a box on a table behind the research bench. This has unlimited storage. The safe in your bedroom has the same property but the box is closer for easy of access when crafting (there is also a mod to link the storage to the work benches so you don't have to pull stuff out, it will disable achievements)
  • Vendor Buy Back Vendors will sell you back your items for the same price (I believe you need to not exit out); Bonus Tip selling stolen goods will remove the flag allowing you to easily launder items.
  • Fast travel while encumbered You can fast travel while encumbered if you are landing your ship. eg) while in orbit above New Atlantis load up on all your resources, get back in the pilot seat and then select the Lodge when headed to New Atlantis, you will appear outside and skip the walk of shame from the starport to the lodge.

Other configuration tweaks

StarfieldCustom.ini

Forum post with a bunch of defaults for this stuff https://stepmodifications.org/forum/topic/19019-starfield-default-values-for-all-known-valid-ini-settings/

[Archive]
bInvalidateOlderFiles=1
sResourceDataDirsFinal=

[General]
sStartingConsoleCommand=bat SelfTweaks
SIntroSequence=0
uMainMenuDelayBeforeAllowSkip=0
bEnableMessageOfTheDay=0

# Allows the game to run in background, good for dual monitor setups
bAlwaysActive=1

[Display]
# Changes the way stars look
fSpaceGlowBackgroundScale=0.0
fStarIntensity=2500.0
fStarSystemFarViewDistance=10000000000.0
fStarfieldBackgroundScale=35.0
fStarfieldStarBrightnessScale=10.0
fStarfieldStarCoordScale=10.0
fSunScale=1.0

# Makes it so you can load textures via mod managers (place them in game root vs documents)
sPhotoModeFolder=Photos

[Camera]
# First person FOV; default 85
fFPWorldFOV=100.0000

# Third person FOV; default 70
# fTPWorldFOV=70.0000

[Controls]
# Delay in seconds before the player grabs an interactive object; default 1.0
fQCZKeyDelay=0.3

# Delay in seconds before the player grabs a basic object; default 0.2
fZKeyDelay=0.15

SelfTweaks.txt

Mine is crazy, this is a reduced set

;; Disables combat music
SetGS fCombatMusicNearCombatInnerRadius 0
SetGS fCombatMusicNearCombatOuterRadius 0
SetGS fCombatMusicPlayerTargetedThreatRatio 0

;; Reduces NPC grettings
setgs fAIMinGreetingDistance 1.000000

;; These are in seconds
setgs fAIHelloTimer 120.000000
setgs fAIGreetingTimer 240.000000
setgs fAIExclusiveGreetingTimer 300.000000
setgs fPlayerGreetingSameActorTimer 300.000000

;;This setting affects how long shell casings remain on the ground.
;;Vanilla Setting: fGunShellLifetime 5
SetGS fGunShellLifetime 9000

;;This setting affects the amount of shell casings you can see at once.
;;Vanilla Setting: iDebrisMaxCount 25
SetGameSetting iDebrisMaxCount 9000

;;This setting affects how far you can see shell casings from. 
;;Vanilla Setting: fGunShellCameraDistance 512
SetGameSetting fGunShellCameraDistance 5000
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Pub: 11 Sep 2023 23:38 UTC
Edit: 13 Sep 2023 00:52 UTC
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