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These files are the "spinal column" of No Man's Sky. They include each and every setting for the game that is not related to meshes, textures, or game databases. With them users can modify things like wind speed, movement, ship controls, asteroid loot probability, and so much more.

This is the list of the GLOBAL files present directly at the root of the unpacked game files:

GCAISPACESHIPGLOBALS.GLOBAL - Settings for NPC ships, either pirates, traders for combat or landing operations

GCATLASGLOBALS.GLOBAL - Some Network Settings (is this still in use ?)

GCAUDIOGLOBALS.GLOBAL - Audio settings, including Bytebeat ones

GCBUILDINGGLOBALS.GLOBAL - Base building global settings

GCCAMERAGLOBALS.GLOBAL - Settings and behaviors of the different game cameras.

GCCHARACTERGLOBALS.GLOBAL - Player character and NPC movements settings

GCCREATUREGLOBALS - Creatures related settings

GCDEBUGOPTIONS.GLOBAL - Very global game settings with a lot of impact on every game aspect

GCENVIRONMENTGLOBALS.GLOBAL - Planet atmosphere settings, Sun, wind and terrain LODs

GCFLEETGLOBALS.GLOBAL - Everything about frigates and expeditions

GCGALAXYGLOBALS.GLOBAL - Every settings related to the Galactic Map

GCGAMEPLAYGLOBALS.GLOBAL - Settings related to player and NPC interactions with everything

GCGRAPHICSGLOBALS.GLOBAL - Display settings like light, shadows, DOF blur, vignette effects...

GCMULTIPLAYERGLOBALS.GLOBAL - Multiplayer and connection settings

GCPLACEMENTGLOBALS - To be determined

GCPLAYERGLOBALS.GLOBAL - Lots and lots of settings, more or less related to the player or player objects

GCRICHPRESENCEGLOBALS - To be determined

GCROBOTGLOBALS - Everything related to sentinels, drones, quads and walker behaviors

GCSCENEOPTIONS.GLOBAL - Settings related to old E3 / trailers demo scenes ?

GCSCRATCHPADGLOBALS.GLOBAL - Some terrain and textures settings

GCSIMULATIONGLOBALS.GLOBAL - Calls to some files and textures

GCSKYGLOBALS.GLOBALS - Clouds, Storm and Skies settings, as seen from planets

GCSMOKETESTOPTIONS.GLOBAL - Planet probes settings used by Hello Games for development ?

GCSOLARGENERATIONGLOBALS.GLOBAL - Space settings, mostly asteroids ones

GCSPACESHIPGLOBALS.GLOBAL - All the player ship and some NPC ship settings

GCTERRAINGLOBALS.GLOBAL - Terrain generation settings

GCUIGLOBALS.GLOBAL - Everything related to HUD and inventory pages

GCVEHICLEGLOBALS.GLOBAL - Settings for all the ground vehicles

GCWATERGLOBALS.GLOBAL - Water specific settings

Descriptions in this color aren't confirmed to be accurate, but are best guesses.