Skip Deathscreen

Skip Deathscreen

What this mod does

You die. The game reloads your last save by itself. You are back in the world.

No key presses at any point — not on the death menu, not on the loading screen afterwards. You never touch the mouse or keyboard between dying and playing.

• []Fully automatic reload on death. The death menu appears for a moment and loads your last save on its own.[/]

  []No "press a button to continue" prompt. The loading screen finishes and hands control straight back to you.[/]

  []Shorter death-to-menu delay. The stock several-second wait is cut to a quarter of a second by default, and is configurable.[/]

  []The death menu is not left on screen. It fades out the moment the reload is confirmed, so you get a normal loading screen instead of a frozen menu.[/]

  []Knows when to leave you alone. If there is no save to load, or the game is offering you a revive, the mod stands down and leaves the menu fully usable. It will not trap you.[/]

  []Nothing else. No hotkeys to learn, no HUD, no new menus. It does one thing.[/]

• []UE4SS — developed and tested against v3. 0. 1 (Angelscript Fix recommended)[/]

  Installation

  • []Install UE4SS if you do not have it already.[/]

    []Extract the archive into your Mods folder, so that you end up with:[/]

  Gothic 1 Remake\G1R\Binaries\Win64\ue4ss\Mods\SkipDeathScreen\

  enabled.txt

  Scripts\main.lua

  Scripts\config.lua

  • []Start the game and die. That is the whole test.[/]

  To uninstall: delete the SkipDeathScreen folder, or delete just enabled.txt inside it to switch the mod off while keeping it installed. Nothing is written to your saves, and nothing is changed permanently — every setting the mod touches lives in memory and is gone when you close the game.

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  Configuration

  Everything lives in Scripts\config.lua and is commented inline. Edit it, then reload a save or restart the game.

  • []GAMEOVER_DELAY_SECONDS — 0. 25 — how long the death screen shows before the reload. Raise it if it goes by too fast to see. Do not set it to 0; on this engine zero can mean "never show", which stops the mod from firing at all.[/]

    []RESPECT_REVIVE — true — do not auto-reload when the game is offering you a revive.[/]

    []HIDE_DEATH_MENU — true — fade the death menu out once the reload is confirmed.[/]

    []PATCH_LOAD_SCREEN_CFG — true — stop the loading screen waiting for a key press.[/]

    []AUTO_LOAD_VERIFY_MS — 900 — how long to wait before deciding a reload attempt did not take. Raise it if you are on a slow drive.[/]

    []AUTO_LOAD_ATTEMPTS — 6 — how many attempts before giving the menu back to you.[/]

    []DEBUG_LOGGING — false — set true to trace every step in ue4ss\UE4SS.log.[/]

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  Compatibility

  • []Saves: completely safe. The mod triggers the game's own "load last save" action — the exact same code path the button uses. It never touches your save files.[/]

    []Other mods: Don't use with Fast Deathscreen Mod. probably not working and wouldnt make sense.[/]

    []Achievements: unaffected.[/]

    []Updates: the mod reads the game's data through reflection at runtime rather than patching anything, so a game patch will usually not break it. If one ever does, it fails safe — you get the normal death menu back, not a crash.[/]

    I was inspired by the "Fast Death Screen" Mod to create a mod that just instantly skips any interaction with menus but still with configuration options.