Third-Person Movement Speed Fix

Third-Person Movement Speed Fix

Corrects for a longstanding bug that causes third-person mobility to be slower than first-person in almost all circumstances -- sometimes by more than half.

The correct way to install this mod:

• []With the mod installed, load a save where your character is naked, or in any event is not affected by any temporary speed boosts, such as from armor.

  Alternatively:

  • []With the mod installed, load any save, but subsequently remove all temporary speed boosts, and then type the following in the console:

    []set ResetSpeedMult to 1

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    Did you know that you literally travel slower when in third-person?

    This is a problem I noticed way back in the first days of the game's existence.  The problem is in fact only one of a giant list of issues with third-person gameplay which are still, every one of them, unsolved to this day.  While most third-person issues probably can only ever be fixed through F4SE dll wizardry, the mobility issue was enough of an annoyance to me, since I use the vanity camera a lot, that I decided to put a bandaid on it.  And that's what this mod is: A patch to cover the leaky hole that is third-person mobility.  As I will elaborate below, my solution is arguably a little inelegant, and certainly it's not the kind of foundational fix I had hoped would be available over two years after release, but it does work, and it does solve an extremely irritating gameplay flaw.

    (But by all means, please, someone dig deeper and give this problem the concrete fix it's been needing for years.)

    How severe is the problem?

    It depends on many dynamic factors.  Are you sneaking or not?  Is your weapon holstered or not?  Are you overencumbered or not?  How many of your legs are broken?  Here are some example answers:

    []Standing, holstered, unencumbered, no legs broken: 0% difference.

    []Standing, holstered, encumbered, no legs broken: Third-person is ~9. 45% slower.

    []Sneaking, wielding, unencumbered, no legs broken: Third-person is ~15. 5% slower.

    [*]Sneaking, wielding, encumbered, no legs broken: Third person is ~45. 13% slower.[/si