Highlights
- Starfield's mod support is generating excitement among players, as Bethesda has a history of high customization levels in games like Skyrim.
- Ship Builder Tweaks is a popular Starfield mod that enhances ship building, improving controls and overall experience.
- Nexus Mods offers various mods for Starfield gameplay improvements, such as adding DLSS, modifying inventory, redesigning HUD, and skipping intro screens. More mods are expected in the future.
A Starfield player has created a mod that makes ship building better. Starfield is a huge success even before its official release, and part of this buzz is due to mod support. The list of mods available for Starfield is modest compared to other games but is growing fast and showing a promising future for the modding community.
Todd Howard announced in 2021 that Starfield would have mod support, which excited players considering Bethesda's track record. The studio has games with high customization levels, Skyrim being the most notable example. With Skyrim having so much inspiration for Starfield, there is huge potential for modders to create planets from scratch, each with their own characteristics. Players are already touching the surface of this potential, making Starfield hit yet another milestone with an impressive amount of mod downloads.
User keanuWheeze has created a mod that improves Starfield's ship building. Named Ship Builder Tweaks, the mod available on Nexus Mods has more than 5,000 downloads. According to the description, the mod makes the controls and overall experience of the Starfield ship builder more responsive and straightforward. Ship Builder Tweaks also allow players to zoom further in and faster, pan and rotate faster, reduce snapping distances, and add more floors. To install the mod, players can follow a simple set of instructions and have access to the features. Starfield players can customize their ships by buying parts with credits, saving pilots, or destroying enemy ships. With the parts obtained, players can create Starfield ships for any kind of situation.
Ship Builder Tweaks is not the only Starfield mod available to download and improve gameplay. One that recently got the spotlight is the mod that adds DLSS to Starfield, making up for the official absence of NVIDIA's technology in the game. Nexus Mods also has mods to modify the inventory of Starfield players, redesign the HUD, and even a mod to skip the intro screens. Over time, more performance and resource mods are expected to appear for Starfield, just as there are quality-of-life mods for Skyrim.
The arrival of Starfield keeps the momentum of a year full of releases of eagerly awaited RPGs such as Baldur's Gate 3, Diablo 4, and Final Fantasy 16. For Bethesda, Starfield has great potential to change how the studio approaches its open worlds. In terms of gameplay, Starfield aspires to push the boundaries of the RPG as a genre, differentiating itself from standard role-players and raising the bar for RPGs and games set in space.
Starfield is available now in early access and officially launches September 6 for PC and Xbox Series X/S.
Source: Nexus Mods