Faster Boat

I don't really like Fast Travel in big open world games. I much prefer to use ingame means to get to where I want to go. It's much nicer for immersion, although obviously it takes more time. On land Roach serves this role fine, but on the water, the boats in The Witcher 3 are lacking. Especially when you need to go large distances, mainly in Skellige. It's just too slow to consistently use a boat as a Fast Travel alternative. This mod fixes that issue, by significantly speeding up the boat.

How it works

The boat has 3 speeds (4 if you include reverse):

• []Slow speed: Only available for controller. Speed unchanged from base game. Push the Left Stick forward.

  []Normal speed: Speed increased by ~25%. On controller hold the A button (no need to push Left Stick forward). On keyboard hold W.

  []Fast speed: Speed increased by ~60%. On controller double tap the A button, and hold the second tap (no need to push Left Stick forward). On keyboard hold W and Left Shift.

  []Reverse speed: Speed unchanged from base game. On controller hold the X button. On keyboard hold S.

  Note: The controls mentioned are based on the default key bindings for both Controller and Keyboard. Which you are free to change, like any other key binds.

  Credits

  This mod is based on excellent work done by rfuzzo for his Configurable Boat Speed mod. That mod hasn't been updated in more than 5 years however, and even after converting the scripts, doesn't work properly because of some small mechanical changes CDPR made in Next Gen (which I fixed). Still, there's some math in there, that's required to get this working, and that honestly I wouldn't have figured out myself. So full credits to rfuzzo for that!

  Note: Math for a simple speed mod?!? Yes. And I'm not just talking about adding two numbers. :P Some special vector calculations are required to calculate differences between each frame, in order to finally determine movement of the boat along two vectors for the next game tick (frame). Thanks CDPR. ;)

  Known Issues

  • []After sailing at Fast Speed and returning to Normal Speed, the boat can retain a higher (in between) speed for (quite) a while.

    Workaround: Let the boat slow down before using the accelerate button again.[]The Control Hints (bottom right) do not mention how to access Fast Speed for controller, just how to get to Normal speed.

    Workaround: Remember the controls and turn the Control Hints off under the game's HUD options. :)

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