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• About the random issues caused by headtracking 'IsNPC' variable

  03 Aug 2021

  Ershin

  Headtracking, random issues and the 'IsNPC' variable
  
   A few of the reported, seemingly random bugs, like the bow aim being off, slower blocking animations, control responsiveness, possibly even Go to Bed issues, seem to be caused by the 'IsNPC' behavior variable being set on the player.
  All headtracking mods set this variable to make headtracking work, because that's how headtracking is set up by default in the character behavior system.
  This issue was made even worse by the fact that I missed a thing in the MCM settings and didn't disable 'IsNPC' when you turned off headtracking, so it stayed on.
  
  Thanks to Distar, we now have a Nemesis patch that skips the 'IsNPC' check for headtracking. This should eliminate all the known a...

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