Following a brief testing phase via the Steam beta branch, Bethesda Game Studios has now released the Starfield May update on both PC and Xbox Series S|X.
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Two mods can completely overhaul its main cities, making them more immersive than ever. The base game did include several story-specific cities such as New Atlantis, Neon, Cydonia, or Akila City spread out across its 100 star systems, with crowds of NPCs populating them, but two modders have taken to making these citizens feel far more realistic and unique, rather than the more generic characters that came before.
In, everyone who isn't a story character was named "", which felt pretty impersonal, especially when other open-world titles such as were able to give a brief profile for every one of its NPCs when players scanned them back in 2014, 9 years prior to 's launch. A mod from X2357, simply titled "" has changed this by providing hundreds of unique names for these citizens, making it feel more like players are interacting with an actual character each time and building immersion.
LarannKiar's "" mod — which "" is compatible with — takes this immersion a step further by completely overhauling 's default crowd system by using a "". This system ensures that all the characters in the world have far more facial expressions applied by FaceGen to better represent an array of emotions, a further 1 billion full name combinations, and far smoother animations including the ones used by the player's character to make them move in a less robotic fashion.
On top of this, these "" wear normal playable apparel which are fully animated with physics, rather than the non-animated «dummy» outfits used by the vanilla NPCs. "" also has a Unique Character system in which players can specify what character data they want (namely: appearance, name, outfit, voice, encounter chance, encounter locations) and guarantee the presence of this unique character in that location.
While Bethesda's initial vision for was clearly extremely vast, there have been several elements that players have criticized for feeling empty or lifeless. With both of these mods combined, the major cities of — which admittedly have been one of the more praised elements of the game — should feel far more alive than before, with more realistic citizens ultimately making for a far more interesting journey across the Settled Systems.
X2357/Nexus Mods, LarannKiar/Nexus Mods
Bethesda Game Studios presents Starfield — the first original IP from the studio in twenty-five-plus years. Set in the year 2310, the United Colonies and Freestar Collective are observing a shaky truce after a war set 20 years prior. The player will customize their character as a member of a space exploration team called Constellation while navigating The Settled Systems and the conflicts between the warring factions. According to Bethesda, players can explore over 100 systems and
Following a brief testing phase via the Steam beta branch, Bethesda Game Studios has now released the Starfield May update on both PC and Xbox Series S|X.
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and represent fairly different implementations of Bethesda's open-world formula, but when it comes to their shortcomings, they both end up falling into the same trap. There's always a certain level of familiarity to Bethesda RPGs, from the strong points like worlds full of varied possibilities, to the weaker elements like outdated engine design. Not everything has stayed the same over the years, however, and the newer ideas in and are exactly why they don't measure up to the best qualities of Bethesda's most memorable games.
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's ship builder is probably the easiest way to waste away hours in the space-faring RPG, and a big May 2024 update is adding a whole new dimension to the system. It makes sense that ship customization features heavily in, as quite a lot of time is generally going to be spent in space across the course of a playthrough. Although the fast travel system makes intergalactic flight irrelevant, exploring space within smaller areas can lead to plenty of memorable encounters both large and small.