Introduction

Do you find yourself struggling in combat situations because you can't find the right key in time? I was constantly having to glance down at the keyboard, rather than watch the battle, because I couldn't find the right keys. That wouldn't happen in real life, and it meant that I was losing battles I would otherwise have won. This mod solves that by allowing you to toggle slow motion on & off whenever you like. For example, you can toggle it on when the battle starts and toggle it off when the battle ends. No more struggling to find the right keys!

The Dedicated key to trigger slow motion mod already does this of course, but it suffers from two critical weaknesses: 1) whenever the player uses Protego or Ancient Magic Throw the slow-mo ends, and 2) when that happens you can't toggle slow-mo back on again. This is a long-standing bug, but it doesn't look like it will ever be fixed. That mod is also written in LUA, which is hooked into the game using UE4SS. That can work well for some users, but for others causes stability issues.

I have therefore created this new mod, which uses blueprint logic. (That's what the game is written in, so it tends to be very stable.)

Installation

You should be able to install the mod automatically using Vortex (then skip to step 4 below), but Vortex can be a bit unreliable with Hogwarts Legacy mods (it doesn't always delete mods properly) so I would recommend installing it manually as follows:

• Download the mod.
• Unzip the contents.
• Move zMySlowMo-103_P.utoc, zMySlowMo-103_P.ucas, and zMySlowMo-103_P.pak to the Steam\steamapps\common\Hogwarts Legacy\Phoenix\Content\Paks\~mods\ folder.
• Install Blueprint Apparate Modloader if you haven't already.
• Start Hogwarts Legacy
• Load your most recent save-file.
• Press the F8 key to activate Blueprint Apparate Modloader.
• Type MySlowMo in the little window and hit the Enter key on your keyboard.
• The word MySlowMo should disappear and reappear lower down in that window with an X next to it. If it doesn't - if it stays on the top line - then either a) you put the .utoc, .ucas and .pak files in the wrong folder, or b) one of your existing mods is already using pakchunk 103. Use my PakChunk Checker to check that. If you have a pakchunk conflict see the Conflicts section below.
• Press F8 again to get rid of the modloader window.
  

Note that you only need to follow the above process once. From now on the mod will just work.

Default Key Bindings

By default the mod uses the following key bindings:

• CTRL-ALT-comma  -> Set Time Dilation = 0.1 (ultra slow).
• ALT-comma  -> Set Time Dilation = 0.33 (very very slow).
• CTRL-comma -> Set Time Dilation = 0.50 (very slow).
• SHIFT-comma -> Set Time Dilation = 0.66 (slow).
• fullstop or period -> Set Time Dilation = 1.0 (back to normal).
• Press-and-hold RIGHT-SHIFT -> Set Time Dilation = 0.1 (ultra slow). Release RIGHT-SHIFT to return to normal.
  

Custom Key Bindings

You can change the key bindings to anything you like as follows:

• Download & install the latest version of this mod, start the game, do the F8 thing (if you haven't already), load a save file, then shut down the game.
• In Windows Explorer type %localappdata%\Hogwarts Legacy\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor into the address bar at the top and hit Enter.
• Left click Input.ini then right click it and select "Edit" (or "Open with" > "Notepad").
• Search for MySlowMo. You should find entries like those below.
• Change the items shown in green below to whatever you want. Key names can be found here.
• Restart the game.
  

ActionMappings=(ActionName="MySlowMo_Normal",bShift=False,bCtrl=False,bAlt=False,bCmd=False,Key=Period,GroupName="",SortIndex=0)
ActionMappings=(ActionName="MySlowMo_Slow",bShift=True,bCtrl=False,bAlt=False,bCmd=False,Key=Comma,GroupName="",SortIndex=0)
ActionMappings=(ActionName="MySlowMo_VerySlow",bShift=False,bCtrl=True,bAlt=False,bCmd=False,Key=Comma,GroupName="",SortIndex=0)
ActionMappings=(ActionName="MySlowMo_VeryVerySlow",bShift=False,bCtrl=False,bAlt=True,bCmd=False,Key=Comma,GroupName="",SortIndex=0)
ActionMappings=(ActionName="MySlowMo_UltraSlow",bShift=False,bCtrl=True,bAlt=True,bCmd=False,Key=Comma,GroupName="",SortIndex=0)
ActionMappings=(ActionName="MySlowMo_PressAndHold",bShift=False,bCtrl=False,bAlt=False,bCmd=False, Key=RightShift,GroupName="",SortIndex=0)

How to Un-Install

Either:

1) If you installed it via Vortex, Disable or Uninstall it via Vortex. BUT also CHECK that it's gone from the ~mods folder afterwards.
2) Delete zMySlowMo-103_P.utoc, zMySlowMo-103_P.ucas, and zMySlowMo-103_P.pak from the ~mods folder.

Conflicts

This mod uses pakchunk 103. You can check if that conflicts with any of your existing mods by running my PakChunk Checker batch script after you've installed the mod. If it does conflict, you can either fix it using the Chunk ID Conflict Manager or rebuild this mod yourself - see below.

Open Source

This mod forms part of a series of wiki articles I'm writing (this mod is in the second article) which aim to help beginners learn how to create blueprint mods for Hogwarts Legacy. The Blueprints for this mod are therefore Open Source - you can download them and play around with them yourself. That's not an entirely easy process though, so you'll need to read the first article in the series to learn how to do it. Nevertheless, once you've got everything set up you can recook this mod with whatever pakchunk and key bindings you like.

To find out more please join the Hogwarts Legacy Modding Discord and head to the wiki section. In there you'll find a pinned link to the first article in the series (called "Blueprint Example 101 - Hello World") which beginners should read first, and also the second (called "Blueprint Example 103 - Toggle Slow Motion").