my favorite part of the starfield mods so far, has been seeing elder scrolls and fallout modder names that i recognize making great mods this quickly. i can easily see the future of starfield modding being massive. will easily be skyrim level of modding.
im sure part of how they are able to make it that quickly is because it uses the same engine. so it's all similar in the end to elder scroll and fallout coding, i assume.
Still, some of the big names haven't joined in yet since the kinds of mods they make require the CK. Wonder if Elianora has access to the CK before it's officially released. I know they hired her to do clutter work
Exactly - I used Eyes of Beauty in Skyrim. And the Effects Texture replacer (EXE) featured in this video, I used the equivalent mod from the same guy for Fallout NV. The Bethesda modding scene is awesome
Most of these are instant downloads. I don't know why you would want to make junk unlootable though, picking up weird treasures and decorating my ship with them is really engaging. I really didn't expect to be able to put an item on my ship's dashboard and actually see it in 1st person, but you can indeed decorate your ship console too. I have a coffee mug sitting right on my dashboard. I have empty beer bottles on the floor all around the captain's chair too. Don't drink and fly kids.
not sure if my game is just bugged or not but whatever i place down in my cockpit or even a house that i own, the next time i come back - that item is halfway into the floor or whatever it was sitting on. every single time.
Decorating ships is great until you decide to modify it. Everything is then moved to ships cargo and all that time spent of butifying your flying home is wasted.
hey, Shipyards Unlocked dev here, am working on an update that allows you to reset the shipyard vendors without having to do a cell reset. I also plan to ditch the bat method once we get SF1Edit (xEdit) and/or CK tools, and hopefully remove the level restriction in parts (some parts only show when you are above a certain level)
I love this, thank you so much for your efforts, you’re doing God’s work here. I definitely understand the logic behind limiting supplies at certain yards, I just hate it.
I really want a "radio" mod for my starlording around. All the awesome mix songs and a few others with themes of space, like most David Bowie songs and even that Rocket Man song from Elton John.
I miss radio aswell, but I see why they did not include it. you simply aren't really traveling in your ship for long enough were you could even listen to a whole song. mod in supercruise travel between planets and a radio mod will follow
Someone needs to develop a surface vehicle mod that comes with an extended landing bay with a vehicle hangar in your ship, would be a great addon for exploration gameplay!
Just saw the note in game that unequipped parts in starfield are destroyed. I don't know which dingleberry at Bethesda thought "oh sure they won't recycle parts in space" but we'd definitely do that in fallout 😮💨
God yes, thought I was going mad when trying to strip a sight off a gun for my own better version of it. Really annoying change, just like the non lootable armour
@@RobbieB2606 I spent about some time researching if I was doing something wrong, as I thought Bethesda would not be that fucking stupid...well they are. Imagine downgrading the gun craft for I assume just for the "lulz"
Thank god for the always armor drop mod. This always was one of my favorite BGS design choices, so weird they changed it to 10%. I didn't know this mod was already out, thanks Juice for highlighting it!
Oh man, I usually don't care for mods because they change too much, but watching most of these I found myself saying, "Why isn't this already in the game?" These are some solid mods. Forget about New Game+, bring on Vanilla+.
@@kdolo1887 Whenever you're about criticize a team of developers you have to remember something important. They laid the groundwork for all of this to be possible in the first place. If you're not a developer or a modder you can't possibly understand how complex it is to design even things that seem simple at glance. Starfield doesn't have anything revolutionary, follows the same formula and you could argue things could have been better but I wouldn't say the developers are talentless hacks, especially if they were told to follow the same formula and work with constraints.
@@kdolo1887 bethesda doesn't have a talended team?? I'm betting most of the investment was into creation 2 which allows mods like these to even come out without too much hassle. No other game at this scale has amazing mod support that bethesda provides and it shouldn't be taken for granted.
That's why BGS always wanted to monetize mods somehow. They think after we pay full price that they are somehow entitled to a cut of what modders make. This is also why most modder refuse charging money because it opens up a whole other can of worms (people will expect bug free quality and long term support). It also goes against the modding "spirit" in general since modding is about the passion for the games art form and not revenues or profits.
I think the filters are there to represent different atmospheric conditions on various planets. Not every planet is gunna have a blue sky and perfectly clear air.
That was the feeling when I saw this. We don't expect every single planet to have the same colors sky right? I get that people have their own tastes, to the point that they will turn a normally snowy location and mod it to a tropical paradise... Tho I am sure many folks were put off with the black levels, they should keep the different colors but fix that black level so people complain less.
I feel like this video is something of a "sales pitch" (not literally trying to make money or anything) for these mods. Like, "here's this awesome reason to get this mod!!!" completely ignoring why the mod totally takes apart the point of the game in the first place. Especially the first couple suggestions. Like, cool... a mod to acquire all achievements in a couple of minutes with a little bit of typing... hooray. What an innovation.
It’s not just planets tho. Even indoors in dark areas, it’ll be a really dark green hue that looks super odd. Filters in places like that are the ones that are really questionable
I think I'd honestly prefer a mod to recycle junk items as opposed to one that makes them un-lootable. Make them give a small amount of either raw resources or manufactured resources relevant to the item, like how Fallout 4 and 76 had it. The reason I'd want this is because i like using junk for decoration in Fallout 4 as well.
100 percent agree. Besides I feel like part of the bethesda like open worlds that barely anyone else does is clutter being able to be picked up. I'll die before I lose the option to have succulents in my home
I don't think that's a great idea, I think they didn't do this on purpose so people didn't feel they had to loot literally every little thing in the game. They want you to be more selective in your looting, and reserving clutter to just being for decoration if you want it is better overall.
I would love for a mod or future DLC expansions to be a second colony war. One of my favorite things about Skyrim was the Civil War questline and it was kinda disappointing that none of the faction quests in Starfield took advantage of the tensions between the UC and FC even though it was mentioned a ton throughout the game
That’s exactly how I felt when playing Skyrim and I sided with the imperials killed the stormcloaks and then Tulius brings up the Thalmore constantly but we never get that war.
I think that would make for a good post game DLC honestly. Finish the quest, war breaks out, you take your high level starship and help your chosen faction
There should also be a mod or it should have been in game that you could select your space suits as wearable clothes and then your regular outfit. And when you go on a planet that doesn't need oxygen, you would just have your regular clothes. But then when you need an oxygen it would automatically suit up into a space suit. When I first started playing the game I kept on dying because I didn't have on the space helmet and my dumass couldn't figure out why
@@Rafrob77 when on your helmet or spacesuit selection menu, look at the bottom of the screen for what some buttons do. one is to "show/hide" helmet or spacesuit in settlements. (well, only the suit will be removed in safe settlements while the helmet will be removed whenever there's oxygen)
I'm just looking forward to when someone drops 'The Rock' mod where The Rock works at The Rock as the bar cook and when you approach him to buy food he'll yell; "CAN YOU SMELL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKIN'?!"
I can’t believe I’ve been playing Starfield for over a 100 hours and just now looking into the mods. This is such a rushed out the door game that most of these mods are what should have been (like the better menus). Thanks for the overview!
It makes me a bit worried for the modding potential in this game. If something as simple as changing a few spawn values can already brick the game then how are player created planets/maps/cities supposed to work which would be far more taxing on the engine.
@@jackskelington7377 At least it's being discovered quickly. Scrap Everything and Spring Cleaning were around for years before people realized that they caused the FO4 to break.
To be fair, it doesn't break the game permanently, when you remove the mod everything goes back to normal. I would actually recommend using it if the mod author could fix it.
I’ve see quite a few people mention the mod to remove the luds, or complain about the colours of certain Planets .. y’all know light going through a different atmosphere would make it a different colour right ? Personally I really like that part, makes the weird atmosphere so much more visibly distinct. And everyone once in a while it’s like “oh hey these colours are normal on this moon”
There is a very simple "Fog Remover" mod which greatly improves visibility. I got very sick of feeling like I was in some weird particle soup everywhere I looked.
Yes, we need dismemberment and true gore. I don't think it's possible at the moment. All mods I've seen so far only change the blood texture and how many decals there are and stay. They are imperceptible and not worth it atm.
For the armor drop mod they could make it so the armor has a (broken) or (damaged) state. Like how the helmet on your original ship has a helmet with a hope in it. You have to take the damaged suit and fix it on a workbench to be able to use it. Makes sense to me since you just fired a barrage of bullets, plasma etc into it. Keeps it balanced too cause those parts sell for alot. I personally use the mad because I feel like economically it be two broken but for the people who want it I think that's a fair optional addition to have
The only issue with the burden me not mod is that for certain skills like commerce you need to sell dozens of different "unique" items. And all those tiny miscellaneous items actually make really good fodder for leveling up that skill. But beyond that, yeah, they don't have a use yet. Maybe later we will get a mod that let's us recycle items for resources which would be nice. Also keep in mind that Shipyards Unlocked doesn't unlock EVERY part. There are still certain parts that you can only get from purchasing ships that doesn't seem to be in the mod and you can't put space station parts onto your ship parts, so there is not really any point in unlocking station parts.
also when you switch ships all that junk gets put in the cargo hold of the ship you switch to, i wonder if they thought of that, or you'll be stuck with all that clutter in your ships cargo hold forever.
I cannot wait for the mods to be more advanced in adding, think of the possibilities. More randomly generated structures or encounters. Modded quests and stories involving jumping through time or other dimensions! Horror quest mods !!!!! Hand crafted areas on various planets to have more quests on !
I know a lot of players hate the color filters in game and i agree theyre not my favorite but for a different reason. I think bethesda used them to make the planet look less earthlike (different atmospheres) which is fine but i am personally more excited for mods that use color pallettes and filters to make the planets more exotic and alien. I think bethesda went in the middle and it didnt make a best of both worlds style
I agree. I think completely stripping the lut system out is a massive detriment to the visuals of this game. There's a much better mod called Reduced LUTS which allows you to adjust lut strength and to add contrast.
Can’t wait for the mod kit to release next year, hoping to see light ground vehicles and mechs, maybe even fully custom planets, exciting mods are yet to come
It's not. It's unofficial. Some stubborn guy just claimed the name. It is not on the silver lock site like all previous official Bethesda script extenders
i just want a mod that adds creatures to more planets and higher spawn rates for the ones we already have. Going hunting at night in a tropical forest fun and horrifying but there are less than a handful of planets with creatures on them in the lvl 60+ zones
The new Vanilla+ Natural LUT is my favorite LUT mod by far. Before that I was using Reduced LUTs with contrast enhancement. This one is similar but more hand crafted to maximize the contrast and colors while preserving the original color grading for different stars and atmospheres.
IMO this is a great game, but I also am now a believer in mods. I wanted to believe before the game came out too many people were focused on Bethesda mods. But now I see it just makes something you already love more the way you want it to be. Quality of life changes and preference changes are great for gaming overall. Thanks for making these great videos!
I have no doubt this was a feature they were saving for the expansions like space station building which we’ve seen code for. For power armor customization to be such a staple of fallout 4 and 76 it’s makes much more sense to me that they’re just saving that system. For there to be a ship builder, outpost builder, space station builder, and mech builder at launch would’ve been a little too much imo. I can see them introducing those as new mid game to semi endgame features.
@@Nimbus118 My guess is that shattered space will be an expansion around a new war between the UC and FC, and will add back some banned stuff from the war like mechs and alien mounts
@@RealUlrichLeland that would pretty cool, I could see that being like that one DLC for fallout 3 but I'm not sure if they would make the UC fight the free Star with banned alien stuff for lore reasons, but ethier way I feel like we'll have mechs ethier way if it's from bgs or mods. Mechanical are already in the game so moders just have to build off of them
@@Nimbus118 I'm honestly SHOCKED Starfield didn't have power armor as a baseline feature. Considering how we're already working on the idea of power armor irl, and the time setting of Starfield. Starfield is actually behind the real world tech in powered battle armor.
We need a mod to add 'hull stats' to all the decorative items so they serve a purpose other than weighing down the ship. I play very hard mode, so the ship blows up quick. I have to spam not so good looking hubs everywhere and turn the ship into a mini borg cube.
You sir are absolutely insane. Man I put it on very hard mode once just to see how it is and my ship got destroyed within a minute by the time I killed 1 of 3 ships in a system.
PROTIP: You can easily get these mods and a bunch of other ones that work really well together for a complete overhaul of Starfield. Open Vortex, browse collections and look for "Odyssey - A True RPG (Collection)". I don't have the effort to list everything it has but I promise you it feels like a completely different game. Beautiful colors, WAY more stable gameplay and much higher framerates, no lag in the menus, enemies have good AI now and aren't bullet sponges anymore, can loot enemy armor, compact inventory and ship building tweaks and increased freedom doing so, reshade pack to make it look BEAUTIFUL and SO MUCH MORE. and it even includes the ini settings so you don't need to tinker around. I wasn't enthusiastic for Starfield playing vanilla, but the Odyssey collection transformed it!! I love SF now
The no loot mod sounds so nice for pirates. Selling ships doesn't sell its contents, and when you steal ships all the little mugs, plates, get transfered to your other cargo... it's so annoying... Also im really looking fprward to seeing the kind of destroyer class battle ships people are going to make with unlocked reactors
Hey, Juice! Great video as always. Just wanted to let you know that your link to Crowded Universe in the descriptions actually links to Less Crowded Universe, the exact opposite mod! Turns out it's because that version of the mod caused problems so it sadly no longer exists :(
Using the "My Games" folder is actually way smarter, because you're not overwriting base game files, and if something goes wrong, all you have to do to revert to vanilla is delete the mods in MyGames. If you the base game folder, you'd have to have made backups, or recheck the game to redownload the changed files. Plus it's so much easier to see what files are modded and what isn't when they're separated.
For videos like this, you should have chapter markers. It would give you more views since people would return later when they're downloading mods and use your video as a reference. Without chapter markers, it's tedious to go back and look for the couple mods I saw that I wanted.
this game really suprised me, with the budget build, the game ran smooth at 60 fps at low settings, with upscaling, and i got a performance boost mod and now it gets 80 fps smooth without upscaling
Just in case anybody was wondering, the AMD bundle reward code CAN be used on Steam, which means the mods SHOULD be usable for you if that's how you're getting the game.
7:50 Speaking about Neutral LUTs I am a bit... divided. On one hand, they make the game look better. On the other hand, this "better" comes from our human experiences of Earth. Those colour filters are there to represent the difference in lighting spectrums of different stars and the difference in gas contents of alien atmospheres.
Absolutely agree. LUTs contribute to each planet looking unique. I feel like people are rushing to fix the black levels issue by stripping out all of the personality in lighting and aesthetics.
having enemies always drop their space suit doesn't make sense, you would think they would obviously be damaged when you are blasting holes in the person... some of them maybe should be "repairable space suit" or something, but unless you are defeating enemies with no weapons, or very very specific ways of doing it 90% of the suits and probably helmets would be destroyed.
I like being able to pick up the "useless" junk. I use it to decorate my player homes and outposts. For me, this actually makes the useless junk, useful.
Built a gaming PC recently not for Starfield but just to get back into PC gaming. This is my first game i've played since I got it. And I am loving it. I forget how much more control you get with a gaming PC. Don't have the best rig. Running a AMD 5600x, RX 6600 on the B550 Gaming Plus motherboard and 48gbs of RAM. Am able to get about 60 fps. And seems like these mods are just going to add more fun to my game. Thanks for the share.
Baka Disable My Games Folder is a lifesaver. I couldn't figure out any way to get rid of the My Games folder. So thankful for this mod. it also seemed to have corrected the Vortex mod to make things work without having to manually put stuff in folders.
There needs to be a mod that lets me Hide activities from my missions, sort my missions, or choose active missions (like Skyrim) Having 1 or all is stupid, especially because the game seems to show the quest icon for the “wrong” mission quite often
SarUI is incredible. M8r once again doing fantastic work. Note for STSE Steam users: it disables your steam overlay, so no more steam screenshots. I am waiting to use it because of this.
I usually don't care about mods unless I've already finished the game but several quality of life mods shown here should be in the game already. Definitely worth it, even though I still play vanilla. The inventory one is the one I think will convince me start using mods even during my first playthrough, something that I don't normally do.
yea same, im using that one and undelay menus, basically speeds up the menu animations which is a game changer, sure its like a sec of your time but i hit the menu like multiple times a min sometimes, it makes it feel much more responsive, recommend that for your still vanilla playthrough, just a good QoL
Someone should really make a mod that allows you to go back and forth thru different “multi verses” once you beat the game so that you can keep your original universe and then have another one it would be sick to have multiple universes to bounce around
Oh my god, whoever made that shipbuilder unlocked, take all my money. I've been nuts for ship building and having to jump around to get what I want has been infuriating.
There is only one critical game changing mod that one needs. A mod that lets you find and get books for Cora. Especially the Brief History of Time. That is all. Nothing else matters. This is the way. (Seriously though there's so many books, there's a library in the Lodge we could complete for rewards, there's libraries we could build and fill in the ship, etc)
well, they updated the game, "just a quick hotfix" but already added DLSS support, and fov slider, plus hdr calibration and brightness / contrast controls... so already making some mods not needed. we know there will be more updates, probably every couple weeks for a while, i plan to hold off on modding because they will probably break or be not needed soon.. but that Starui is VERY tempting.
I had multiple fights with people about how the xbox version of modding would likely be limited due to how they lock your file access from you. Them insisting that Todd said they "fully support modding" and that meant it would all be good. Now we have to wait a year for the actual modding tools they promised. And cant even run the lower level stuff on Xbox versions.
Digipicks on the vendor costs less than 50 credits, them being on the cheap side is actually ok, meanwhile med packs are quite expensive. And you really don't need a lot of them; digipicks i mean.
Imagine feeling like steam achievements are so worthwhile that you download a mod to let you collect them despite having changed the game with other mods
guns in Starfield actually looks good and unique enough. Haven’t seen a single abomination so far except some slightly cringy laser bricks. A few conventional throw backs is great, and their take on the six shooter is dope that none of FO4 mods can come close.
Ok Juice, I installed about 70% of these and they are working perfectly. Game looks SO MUCH BETTER and makes the game less... ...off. Thank you for that. What I realized after I installed these, is how much Bethesda has failed us. The fact that we had to install these is a bit sad don't you think?
Do you have a tutorial video on how to download mods? I'm new to PC gaming so I'm not much of an expert on that field but I would love to learn, I find it that most videos are hard to follow and I love your structure and format of your videos Thank you :)
The most important mods for me are Deadly Difficulty and Less Spongy Enemies/Less Spongy Player. Also Better HUD Disable Enemy Healthbars and No Enemies on Compass. Makes the combat way more immersive and more like an FPS like Call of Duty, rather than emptying entire magazines into bullet sponges.
Nice mods, I will get a few essential ones but right now its WildWest and alot of these are hard to install and break the game in some way. I know its a Bethesda game but it runs good out of the box and I want a good first playthrough.
"DLSS! More frames!" I literally can't tell the difference. "Better eyes! They look amazing!" I literally can't tell the difference. "Remove the color filter! True to life!" I can vaguely tell the difference, but not enough to care. "Why did you even comment if you don't care then?" Because I can.
half of the mods you talked about in both videos respectively, i had already installed and the other half really fit my taste and make starfield a almost perfect game 👌
fyi I've heard some folks have gotten their steam accounts banned for cheating achievements / using achievement based mods. Just a heads up since Juicehead may have missed that....
It’s pretty sad that the UI didn’t get these QoL optimizations from Bethesda themselves prior to launch. Everything from the fonts to the functionality could have come much more polished on delivery.
hey i found this detail while playing and wanted to ask you about it, it's about vasco the robot companion, when you ask him personal questions and you ask him how he join constellation, he will tell you that constellation recovered him from an abandoned lunar robotics factory on earth's moon, where he was manufactured. but in the journal of Sir malcom livingstone that you can find in the Lodge, on the bar, he said he found and bought an original model A robot from lunar robotics, that he found him rusting in some junk heap in akila city, had him refurbished and that he named him Vasco. so what is the truth? did bethesda make a mistake here? or is malcom livingstone lying? or is vasco lying?
