No More Easy Sneak In Front Of Actors

⭐ — (5 endorsements) 📥 129 downloads 📌 v1.1 📅 4/29/2025
🟠 Updated over a year ago

By lelimule · Gameplay

⬇ Download Mod Source: Nexus Mods ↗ 📅 Updated: 4/30/2025 📅 Created: 4/29/2025
⚠️ Install Order · 2 steps
1🛠️ MWSE — Morrowind Script Extender Download ↗
2🔧 MCP — Morrowind Code Patch Download ↗

Install in this order, then this mod last — most mods fail to load without their framework and dependencies in place.

🔍 Analysis

  • 🏆 #21 of 348 Gameplay mods in this game by downloads

📋 About This Mod

In Morrowind it's not very hard to sneak (without being detected) in front of an actor. It's not realistic. Now it's hard (not if you're behind). And optionally you can fix the sneak icon (it's not realistic to know when someone detects you

There is a mod who try to do this (Realistic Stealth) but it has a problem with player's invisibility (it raises fSneakViewMult a lot; but there is a bad side effect: when you raise this GMST, actors can detect player when he's invisible in a combat context, which isn't realistic)

So i found another solution:

fSneakDistanceBase: 0. 5 -> 0. 59                           }

fSneakDistanceMultiplier: 0. 0020 -> 0. 0005 } => distance factor has 4 x lesser weight (so when you're at distance it's harder than in the original game - no matter you are in front or behind the actor)

fSneakNoViewMult: 0. 5 -> 0. 125 => When you behind the actor, his detection potential is 4 x lesser

And i made 2 alternatives plugins:

A "softer":

fSneakDistanceBase: 0. 5 -> 0. 56                           }

fSneakDistanceMultiplier: 0. 0020 -> 0. 0010 } => distance factor has 2 x lesser weight

fSneakNoViewMult: 0. 5 -> 0. 25 => When you behind the actor, his detection potential is 2 x lesser

And a "harder":

fSneakDistanceBase: 0. 5 -> 0. 608                         }

fSneakDistanceMultiplier: 0. 0020 -> 0. 0002 } => distance factor has 10 x lesser weight

fSneakNoViewMult: 0. 5 -> 0. 05 => When you behind the actor, his detection potential is 10 x lesser

(Only use 1 of these 3 plugins)

For information, this is the Morrowind Sneak formula: https://wiki.openmw.org/index.php/Research:NPC_AI_Behaviour#NPC_awareness_check

And by default with this mod, the sneak icon isn't visible anymore (it's not realistic to know when someone detects you or not).

If you don't want this option, just remove/rename my mod's "Stealth_Sneak.dds and Stealth_Sneak.tga" files (these are "blank" files).

And you can fix the sneak icon: with my NoMoreEasySneakInFrontOfActors-The_Icon.esp optional plugin, the icon appear as long as you crouch (fSneakUseDist = 0), so you don't know when you're detected or not (more realistic). Only for OpenMW; i have no icon solution for morrowind.exe (the behavior is different...).

I noticed that morrowind.exe has some very strange behaviors about sneak (perhaps MCP corrects that), and with this mod; so i can only say that this mod works with OpenMW. (EDIT: after more tests, and

📊 Mod Details

Game
Morrowind Mods
Author
lelimule
Version
1.1
Downloads
129
Endorsements
5
Category
Gameplay
Created
4/29/2025
Updated
4/30/2025

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