Following June 9’s Xbox Showcase, Starfield lastly bought its Creation Package and Creations suite, permitting PC and Xbox gamers to obtain official and community-built mods immediately in-game. It’s nonetheless early days for positive, however there are already a variety of nice mods price your time that it’s best to take a look at ASAP.
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One twist, in fact, is that each paid and free mods can be found within the Creations hub. In the event you’re not sure what to spend cash on, or don’t want to pay for mods, nevertheless, there are some nice free ones to get began with. I’ve rounded up six free mods that’ll subtly however meaningfully enhance your Starfield expertise. In the event you’re simply searching for some mild modifications or are new to modding generally, these are an amazing place to begin.
Make the galaxy look higher with Colour Filter Elimination and Darker Nights
I’m completely digging a pair of mods that dramatically improves the visible look of the sport on each PC and Xbox. The primary is GTA_R0CKS’ “Colour Filter Elimination.” This mod peels away Starfield’s meh coloration filters pl, lending itself to a a lot cleaner picture.
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“Colour Filter Elimination” pairs delightfully properly with HopeFulWishing’s “Darker Nights.” This mod lowers the sport’s ambient lighting to make for a darker, extra imposing picture that, throughout evenings on planets and moons, permits darkness to really blanket and smother the atmosphere. All the things feels notably spookier, and in my expertise it hasn’t been too onerous to see issues. Actually, it makes the sport extra compelling. Recognizing distant constructions within the distance, for instance, feels extra ominous as you possibly can’t essentially make every part out.
What about “Pitch Black Nights?”
In the event you’re fishing across the Starfield Creation suite, you’ll seemingly come throughout one other mod from HopeFulWishing: Pitch Black Nights.” This mod makes the atmosphere even darker. In my expertise, nevertheless, it’s too darkish. If you wish to go for some ominous, liminal, house pictures of deserted constructions, it could be neat to activate every so often. However for normal gameplay, I advocate “Darker Nights.”
Whereas “Darker Nights” is nice by itself, the mod is made even higher by a easy flashlight mod that will increase the quantity of sunshine you emit.
“Vanilla Flashlight Improved” is a substantial enchancment
Litbeep’s “Vanilla Flashlight Improved (VFI),” obtainable on PC and Xbox casts far more gentle along with your flashlight, making it really helpful for seeing additional in darkish areas. This combines very well with “Darker Nights” and the “Colour Filter Elimination” to make for some glorious night-time planetary exploration. The mod additionally removes the banding impact that the inventory flashlight has, so it’s not solely extra gentle, it’s a cleaner flashlight texture too.
“Headshot kills any actor” makes for higher fight and extra realism
This mod from SKKmods not solely improves the common move of fight in Starfield, it may well additionally release the inflexible nature of many quests by letting you lastly kill important NPCs (sure, I do know which one you’re excited about proper now, and I’ll reply that query in only a second).
To activate this mod, you’ll want to make use of the merchandise added to your stock as soon as the mod is put in. This merchandise provides you with a menu that permits you to select who might be killed with a headshot, from common enemies, to friendlies, to your self, and to important NPCs.
On that word, in case you kill a necessary NPC, you’ll seemingly break any quest they’re related to. So that is actually greatest for sandbox play, or you possibly can go away the “Important actor headshots” toggle off and revel in the advantages of headshot kills for normal hostile characters.
And sure, when “Important actor headshots” is toggled on, you possibly can kill the board of Paradiso. Is that this the right solution to take care of this case? Nicely I ain’t writing a information on morality right here, however I can say in my assessments it positive did make me really feel a sure method.
“Shade’s Stealth Takedowns (Knock-out or Deadly)”
Shadedness’ takedown mod instantly modified how I used to be taking part in Starfield, lastly inching the sport towards extra immersive sim territory—which I’m completely all about. This mod provides a brand new “Takedown” ability within the Bodily Abilities tree, with 4 ranks to ascend by means of. Now you possibly can sneak into an enemy base and take down enemies from behind with out a lot fuss. When used with the “Sense Star Stuff” means, it nearly looks like taking part in Dishonored…in house.
Do take a look at Shadedness’ different mods as properly, as they deal with and enhance just a few important areas of Starfield.
“Starshards” provide help to unlock new expertise quicker
“Starshards” by _Ravageron is a neat little mod that spawns varied, properly, starshards on planets so that you can accumulate. Not solely does this add an additional exercise to planetary exploration, you’ll additionally get a ability level for each three shards you accumulate. This can come in useful in case you’re planning on including extra expertise to the ability tree.
The Creations mod suite is quickly rising, so there’ll undoubtedly be extra mods price your time sooner or later. However enhancements to the visible model of the sport and its fight can go a protracted solution to making Starfield really feel good and contemporary once more.
