Game director Todd Howard confirmed in an interview that “Starfield” will receive official mod support in 2024. Since the vast space RPG debuted in Early Access, thousands of unofficial mods have been released online, ranging from ones that support Nvidia’s DLSS upgrade system to mods that make the inventory more compact and user-friendly. However, official modding tools make it easy to add fresh custom content such as new planets and story missions, essentially opening the playing field for more experimentation. As is customary for Bethesda games at launch, the modding community has been heavily involved in ironing out bugs or enhancing the experience due to their in-depth knowledge of the engine.
“When the mod is ready, you’ll be able to do pretty much anything like we’ve done in the past and the mod will be supported next year, but we’re going to do it in a big way because we love it too,” Howard told Japan Olympics Teles Famiton (machine translation PCGamesN).Comments reflect Reddit Q&A Starting in 2021, he confirmed that Starfield will receive “full modding support” like previous games, and that they hope to see more modders make a career out of it.Of course, this refers to Elianora Creations, the modder of “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim”, who is Get hired by Bethesda adding some world chaos and lighting to their latest open space game.In fact, the influence of modders is so great that The five most popular games The content on Nexus Mods is dominated by Bethesda games.
The timeline for official mod support is very similar to previous games like Skyrim and Fallout 4, with the former gaining share four months after its November 2011 release (early the following year). Meanwhile, Fallout 4’s post-apocalyptic wasteland officially became moddable via a creation kit six months after its release in November 2015. With that in mind, it’s likely that Starfield’s modding tools will take longer to appear, as it’s being developed on the overhauled Creation Engine 2. The same engine will be used to create the highly anticipated The Elder Scrolls 6, which recently entered early stages of development.
Currently, PC players can try out countless unofficial mods, starting with fixing minor issues in Starfield, such as the lack of Field of view slider To a Performance improving modules Squeeze more frame rates without sacrificing visual fidelity. There have also been some interesting developments in the modding world, with some players thinking it would be fun to pretend the game was also available on PlayStation systems.Such a module replace Bethesda’s introduction of the splash screen versus the PlayStation Studios animation is just an interesting aesthetic choice. It’s worth mentioning that enabling any kind of mod or using console commands in Starfield will disable unlockable achievements.However, Nexus Mods users priklade Immediately came up with a mod that was the opposite of that rule so you wouldn’t miss any of it in the game.
Starfield is available now on PC, Xbox Series S/X and Xbox Game Pass.
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