SKK Fast Start New Game (Starfield Achievement Enabled)

Fast Start New Game (Starfield Achievement Enabled) bypasses the Argos-Atlantis tutorials starting new and NG+ games from Lodge, Cydonia, Akila, Neon, Den or random location with full character configuration and some loadout choices in less than 60 seconds. All this with ZERO BASE GAME SCRIPT HACKS for stable conflict free games.

Install this solution before starting a new game from the main menu or triggering NG+ for a menu of choices on how the new game should start:

Autojoin Constellation: No Yes (in the Lodge)

Start Locations: Current Location (Atlantis spaceport | Guardian ship) The Lodge Gagarin Cydonia Akila City Neon City The Den Random exterior map marker

Loadout options: Standard game (Argos Miner | Starborn) Miner UC Marine Freestar Ranger Neon Thug Bounty Hunter

Ship options: Standard game (Frontier | Guardian) Loadout specific (keep default ships) Loadout specific (remove default ships)

Vasco options: Leave in Lodge Keep for crew

AUTOJOIN CONSTELLATION

NO does nothing so you can choose to run the full base game Constellation quest line or not. If you choose to start in an alternate location the MQ101 "One Small Step" Lodge quest marker is hidden to not spoil your onward roleplay. The Shattered Space DLC01 quests will not start until you complete "One Small Step" at the Lodge.

YES sets location to Lodge as it must happen there, if you change the location then Auto Join Constellation resets back to NO. Automatically joining Constellation completes quests MQ101 "One Small Step" and FFLodge01 "Board and Lodging" so you can get going. No quest completion experience is awarded. Shattered Space DLC01 will start when you jump to Wolf.

This option is automatically switched to NO if the Lodge is not the start location and is hidden during any of the 10 NG+ alternate universe variant starts which alter the Constellation quest line.

START LOCATIONS

Start at current location is New Atlantis spaceport in a new game and on the Starborn Guardian ship in the Narion system in an NG+ game.

The Start at a random map marker option picks from one of ~100 appropriate exterior map markers in the universe. Some may start in a remote system that a class A grav drive can not jump out of, which is the unpredictable challenge of random. Tip A pick Explorer or Professor background(s) for Astrodynamics perk (Rank 1 - Increased grav jump range of jump drives by 15%). Tip B select a loadout and ship with good jump range. Tip C try to steal every ship that lands until you get one with the range you need.

The menu automatically switches settings to prevent starting on the Starborn Guardian and trying to replace it with a loadout specific ship.

LOADOUT OPTIONS

The "Standard Game" option is the base game Argos miner equipment in a new game and Starborn outfit for NG+

The other faction or role loadouts all include a faction related suit, helmet, backpack (which may or may not have jump ability), base layer, some food, medpacks, credits.

New game standard: Cutter, Eon NG+ standard: Razorback Argos Miner: Cutter, Eon UC Marine: Eon, Equinox Freestar Ranger: Rattler, Coachman Neon Thug: Gutter, Kraken Bounty Hunter: Eon, Maelstrom

All loadout options get a Lodge Key to enable the Constellation main quest to progress regardless of options.

SHIP OPTIONS

A normal new game start includes the Frontier ship (16LY jump). A normal NG+ start includes a levelled Starborn Guardian (30LY jump) and the Frontier.

If you have selected an alternate loadout the associated ships are:

Argos Miner: Atlas freighter 17LY jump UC Marine: UC Dagger fighter 20LY jump Freestar Ranger: Kfir fighter 16LY jump Neon Thug: Crimson Ghost fighter 20LY jump Bounty Hunter: Achillies combat 19LY jump

You can choose to keep ownership of the the unsellable default ships or remove them.

VASCO OPTIONS

Menu options are only offered in a main menu new game start as Vasco does not start with the player in NG+.

Leave in Lodge places Vasco in the atrium ready to be Elite crew without progressing the Constellation quest.

Keep for crew tries to keep Vasco with you to assign as crew. As the game follow function can be unreliable, assign as soon as possible.

INSTALLATION

Install this mod before starting a new game from the main menu. It can be installed in an existing game ready for the next NG+ restart but will warn you it is not a new game with a stop code. It is 100% new content and makes no changes to any existing content so has ZERO dependencies and NO load order needs.

SKKFastStartNewGameAE.esm is a small master file.

SKKMods does not support removing any CreationEngine mod from an active savegame.

KNOWN ISSUES

(1) Sometimes new game starts have suppressed weapon noise, save/reload clears this and no one knows why.

(2) If something has modified your selected starting location/marker so it can not be found, New Atlantis Spaceport will be used as a fall-back.

STARTUP STOP CODES

If Fast Start is unable to validate the game state when it first loads in a new game, or it is loaded into an existing game it will display a stop code message and shutdown. Be aware that the mouse may be game disabled when the message shows so use the [ E ] key to close. This is what the stop codes mean:

[ 1 ] New Game: GlobalVariable MQ101Debug value has been over-ridden by a conflicting mod. [ 2 ] New Game: Player is over level 3. [ 3 ] New Game: quest MQ101 character generation stage 105 already completed. [ 4 ] New Game: quest MQ101 has passed stage 1510 in the Lodge. [ 5 ] New Game: Player is not in cell NewAtlantisSpaceport03 [ 6 ] NG+ quest MQ101 is not at expected stage 0 or stage 2000. [ 7 ] NG+ Player is not in MQPlayerStarbornShipREF [ 8 ] NG+ quest MQ401 stage 110 start of character generation has already triggered. [ 9 ] Conflicts with installed SKKFastStartNewGame.esm [ 10 ] Conflicts with installed SKKCrimsonStartNewGame.esm

FOR SUPPORT

SKK Mods Discord channel discord://discord.gg/tgKNT77DC8