20+ Mods To Make Starfield More Immersive

I’ve hand-picked 20 immersive mods that suit all kinds of playstyles so hopefully by the end of the video you can walk away with a bunch of mods to add to your current or future playthrough!
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EXE - Effect Textures Enhanced:
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
Immersive Shell Casings:
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
Transparent Scope Overlays:
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
Deadly Difficulty - More Damage:
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
Improved Combat AI:
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
No Enemies on Compass:
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
CCR - Actually Functional Food and Chems:
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
Immersive Mantle Animation Speed:
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
More Dramatic Grav Jumps:
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
More Immersive Landings And Takeoffs:
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
Immersive Planet Density:
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
No Flight Take Off - Grav Jump Music:
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
More Subtle Level Up Sounds:
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
More Subtle Quest Music
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
Silent Sounds - Immersive Gameplay:
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
No Combat Music:
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
Crowd NPC eye Ambient occlusion Fix:
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
Starfield HD Reworked Project:
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
Neutral LUTs - No Color Filters:
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
Less Intrusive HUD and Better Crosshair:
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
Immersive Tactical HUD:
www.nexusmods.com/starfield/m...
🕒 Timestamps:
0:00 20+ Mods
0:17 Effects
2:15 Combat
4:33 Exploration
7:22 Visuals
9:00 User Interface
9:45 Thank You
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Thanks For Watching!

[@Loukeyo]

It's crazy how much you can change Starfield this early in it's modding scene, again thank you thank you for the support on the videos! I hope you enjoy this one too! ❤️

[@mrnobody043]

That's exactly why i think the game falls short.. It's relying on the modding community to make it work. It means the game itself is lacking and modders need to add stuff to make it more appealing. People aren't praising the game, they are praising the mods for the game because the game itself should have had the options the mods are offering.

[@KevHCloud]

@@mrnobody043 hello and welcome to a Bethesda RPG, they are not the greatest at any one thing but they offer some of the best sandbox RPG experiences in gaming, TES with its fantasy, Fallout with the Post-Modern Apocalypse, Starfield just continues that trend only now with a planet hoping galaxy a few hundred years into our own (im)possible future. The game is good on it's own, I enjoyed my first run to Unity and some of the side mission arcs are very entertaining ... not all though, some of those early Ryujin mission where a bit dull haha. Regardless, this is all just my opinion, take it or leave it

[@squirrelsinjacket1804]

I'm still waiting for somebody to re=work the warping system so there's an actual warp tunnel and it takes a bit of time to travel between stars.

[@KevHCloud]

@squirrelsinjacket1804 is not warp though, it's folding space, no travel time.

[@arnograbner4741]

@@mrnobody043There are thousends of mods - so everyone can choose what he wants in HIS game! It would no be possible to get this all in one game! I only buy and play games which can be modded! Vanilla game versions are not for me!

[@bobbybobo6499]

Starfield needs more varied points of interests on a planet. I’m tired of seeing the same cave or abandoned outpost. I want to explore volcanos, deep canyons, sprawling craters, and dense jungles, and more.

[@tye6090]

I love how people keep suggesting no colour filters. Did no one pay attention during high school science. Stop trying to make every planet look like earth. Every sun, every planets atmosphere is different, from thickness to which gas is more dominant is said atmosphere. Every planet is going to look different, or like it has a filter when compared to earth.

[@boopjackrex7598]

@@freddydickson3071not necessarily, tint can be found within darkness and shadows depending upon different gasses in the air and atmosphere conditions

[@RidoDrago]

​@@freddydickson3071how can you know? Have you ever been to a different planet?

[@tiagodias8265]

I agree, different planets should have different color corrections. The problem is that bethesda colors are just bad. They are most times washed out and lacking contrast. They should have hired a designer to do that. Color theory is as important in games as it is in cinema

[@nativeoriginsent.entertain9637]

This made me laugh but I agree

[@user-rx2ur5el9p]

I'd maybe like a mod with TWEAKED, higher contrast filters, but I wouldn't want them to be straight up removed.

[@Shindia]

The casings mod makes very little sense since almost all the guns use caseless ammo

[@Loukeyo]

Yeah a lot of weapons don't have casings but the mod is very lightweight so it's there for when you do use ammo with casings

[@mike_d_melb_music_fan5229]

Not me. !! If I get this mod , I'm gonna be swimming in 6.5 mm casings!! 😮😃

[@angryglock]

@1:10 Most of the ammo in the game is "caseless" which means the propellent is the case so the "case" burns up when the round is spent. The most common ammo type: 7.77mm is caseless. This type of ammo is a real world ammo. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caseless_ammunition

[@JRDShamrock]

ah yes the Casing FX for caseless ammo very immersive.

[@Loukeyo]

Whilst I know next to nothing about guns. The guns in Starfield that eject shell casings are correct no? For example weapons that shoot 6.5MM or 12 guage shells would drop all their shells in real life, right? I've gotten a lot of comments about the shell casing mod which is exposing how very little I know about my weapons lol. The mod is purely to change shell casings disappearing. In vanilla Starfield weapons that do eject shell casings, eject them, but when a certain limit is reached the oldest shell casings will despawn. The immersion comes from them staying in the world and not despawning. I defintely should've explained it better my bad!

[@hackjuniordf]

Neutral Luts looks amazing! Can't wait to test this one and that other for improved enemyes ia!

[@aidenmeyer679]

This was organized really well man

[@Loukeyo]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it

[@Soris.]

Awesome video!

[@Loukeyo]

Thanks a lot!

[@warrikata]

Very nice list, I'll have to get mods going and install some of these

[@Loukeyo]

Thank you! I have a video on getting MO2 setup if you're interested, everything is very much in it's early stages so expect a tiny bit of jank!

[@warrikata]

@@Loukeyo I tapped the popup for it! A touch of jank but... I want that immersive combat, so probably worth it! Though I am worried about a repeat of my Skyrim experience, 90% modding and fixing, 10% shooting arrows from shadows, lol

[@Ahglock]

The immersion mod i am hoping for in the future is bringing back NPC schedules. The NPCs here are the lady who runs jemmison mercantile and not Adrianne the blacksmith. I think this is because they feel less real when they are constantly glued to one spot. Give them some NPC housing and things they do when the shop is closed. Don't get me wrong every place being the city that never sleeps is more convenient, just less immersive.

[@user-rx2ur5el9p]

If players wanted to keep the shops open at night for the sake of convenience, maybe, instead of being closed, some shops could have a different night shift/weekend employee npcs, with different dialogue, a different personality, and possibly different side quests. That'd be a very cool addition, while still being a reasonably-sized workload for a modder.

[@mike_d_melb_music_fan5229]

The bored millennial at Paradiso general store cracks me up 😅😅😅

[@stuart4341]

good video, i downloaded some of thse. You deserve more subs.

[@nickj7332]

Great content. Great presentation. When you announced the sub count I was shocked. Ride the starfield wave, I imagine you at 10k in a couple weeks.

[@Loukeyo]

Thanks, I appreciate that alot!

[@lunny2230]

I love how increasing the healing effects of food is considered as an immersive mod! 🤣 "Oh shit, I've just had half my leg blown off!" "No problem champ, here's a squeezy pack of soup"........ 🤔

[@mdsf01]

Super useful video! Subscribed!

[@Loukeyo]

Thank you man I appreciate that alot!

[@mdsf01]

@@Loukeyo As do I the info you present. I decided to use my secondary gaming rig to try the mods without doing anything drastic on my primary gaming AMR (Alternate Reality Machine) :)

[@kirshak7007]

I think the Exploration mod would do nicely with a vehicle mod. I think Starfield have missed an opportunity of making exploration both exciting and convenient. I think a lot of players want to explore uncharted planets, and finding a facility should be an oasis in a desert. Covering the distance between those facilities could be fixed by using a vehicle, like a Moon rover !

[@Loukeyo]

Moon rovers! If modders managed a Fallout New Vegas vehicle mod then I'm sure only time will tell with Starfield.

[@genxlibertarian9656]

i get the impression that land vehicles are gonna be in one of the dlc. be a real shame if modders did it faster and better.

[@Artemi22]

​@@genxlibertarian9656but modders always do it faster and better

[@lifestooshorttostress519]

theres no way we will get land vehicles. you are forgetting the way planets are not planets but cells, lots of cells. a vehicle would have you smashing into the cell boundaries all the time, like trying to run around in a bathroom and smacking into the walls all the time. "vroom- bang return to ship"

[@Loukeyo]

@@lifestooshorttostress519 Well there is a mod that removes all the planet boundaries. It causes some issues but issues I think can be fixed with time.

[@tzxazrael]

lmao @ 4:45 ... how many times have i yelled at my screen, "Vasco! WTF dude, get IN the ship!"

[@edwhatshisname3562]

One mod I use removes a lot of the sound effects when fighting in space with a ship, where it makes sense. Since space is a vacuum, and sounds need some kind of medium to travel through, like a gas, liquid, or solid, only the muffled sounds of the guns firing and the low drone of the boosters can be heard while inside your ship. I was sceptical about a mod like that at first, but I feel like the music during combat does a pretty good job of making up for the lack of weapon sounds and I really don't notice the fact that the ship's guns are mostly silent. Unfortunately the mod does not do anything when on a planet with no atmosphere. The name of the mod is No Sounds in Space.

[@Loukeyo]

I'll check it out thanks for the comment!

[@L3RK]

Call me STALKER-pilled, but I would love to see some more immersive survival mods. Make afflictions and meds actually impactful. Especially in tandem with the combat mods. Love the less dense planets mod, too. Nothing kills the "exploring the unknown" mood more than landing on some small barren moon in the galaxy's boondocks only to see 4 mining outposts already there. Also hoping to see an inventory rework at some point.

[@Loukeyo]

Never properly played STALKER but being a huge fallout fan who loves wandering a wasteland I’ve always wanted to give it a go. Your ideas sound awesome, I’d love to do a hardcore survival type play through when the type of mods get made. Thanks for the comment!

[@nukesandbaes9076]

@@Loukeyo check out stalker gamma. arguably the most refined vision of open world single player survival shooters

[@stampiboy1]

HOW JUST HOOOOOW ALL THIS AMAZING PEOPLE MAKE THIS MODES SOOOOO FAST ???

[@user-rx2ur5el9p]

We'll have to wait for the full SDK to drop next year for this, but what I'm most looking forward to is people making mods that add as much variety as possible to the planet generation. I actually already like the planet generation in Starfield better than No Man's Sky, because the different biomes really incentivize exploration well. But, obviously, the more modders add extra flora and fauna, extra points of interest, extra handcrafted quests, extra planets with weird rare biomes, ect., the more fun the game will get. After that, the next most important thing to me would be making space exploration more of a thing, because currently there's just a chance you get a random ship hailing you every once in a while and that's it. Overhauling space exploration would be such a big undertaking that it might require a DLC pack from Bethesda to get the ball rolling that modders could then add to. I'd also like to see a few more base building parts. There are tons of decorations, which is awesome, but there are very few actual building pieces to choose from. Fences, ceiling lights, lamps, concrete foundation to flatten the ground, stairs, railings, ladders,ect. are all notably missing. The ability to change the colors of building pieces like you can with ship pieces would be fantastic, as well.

[@Loukeyo]

That would be great! I agree as-well about no man sky generation. I like how seamless bethesdas feels. Thanks for the comment, I love hearing all your guys ideas! Maybe I should make a video about them

[@mike_d_melb_music_fan5229]

I've never played NO Man's Sky, but yes, Starfield's outpost resource/ manufacturing is a bit one-dimensional. Worthy of an expansion pack IMHO. "Helium3 Tycoon" !!! 😅😅😅

[@arnograbner4741]

There a meanwhile several mods for all of that!

[@ILikeTrains324]

Damn I thought i was watching a channel with +500k subs, bro's on his way to a mil in 100 videos time :O high quality, well written and edited, highly informative and not blabbery, just straight to the point, high resolution content. Fuckin crazy

[@Loukeyo]

Wow that means a lot to me thank you! ❤️

[@hackjuniordf]

Truly, crazy is how fans like you guys can improve a game more than the developers themselves! Bethesda should hire you all, what an amazing job, thank you so much...

[@jonny5_]

I've encountered the "Vasco on top of your ship" bug without mods. Funny, as he makes a good hood ornament.

[@Loukeyo]

Had to stick the the poor guy in the lodge. Can’t have him ruining immersion lol

[@sli-fox]

Despite the negative reviews, I find that this game sucks me in. I can’t get anything else done around the house at the moment.

[@Loukeyo]

Same here! Brings me back to being sucked into Fallout 4. I can talk all day about that games flaws, but I still love it and have put over 200 hours into it

[@christoskollias3838]

you deserve way more than just 2.1k subs

[@Loukeyo]

I appreciate that alot thanks!

[@yeastydynasty]

This is why Bethesda will forever use the creation engine. They are wanting the modders to improve their games.

[@Loukeyo]

And I'm all here for it lol!

[@arnograbner4741]

Thank's god! I only buy and play games which can be modded!

[@throwdeo]

amazing video. looking for something exactly like this but all the videos Ive found just add Boba Fett and anime girls so

[@Loukeyo]

Haha yeah those mods are very meh looking, don’t understand why many people show those sort of mods lol. Thank you for the kind words friend!

[@cway-cway2256]

I found a mod that makes space sound more accurate and muffled, I think its called no sound space and its awesome.

[@Loukeyo]

I’ll definitely check it out thanks for the suggestion!

[@haydenkz]

Steller Glass mod was a big one for me, no more grimy glass when trying to loot or see through, especially with the flashlight on

[@Loukeyo]

I’ll take a look at that one, thanks!

[@BobMarley-ck4wv]

@haydenkz how did you get it to work.

[@Ov3rTheTop]

Once we get some vehicle mods on the planets like rovers then Ill grab that planet density mod for sure

[@samueldrake0123]

Bro..Ive been trying to install two kinds of mods after this update...namely Crosshair and Scanner Hud... Doesnt work at all...Is it because it wont work on documents folder?

[@everluck8433]

I wish bloody mess perk from Fallout was in this game, then with the better effects mod it would look amazing lol

[@Loukeyo]

The lack of gore in Starfield was dissapointing, so yes. this is a must!

[@stevenmarecle5502]

I'd love a mod that adds tribal aliens on planets. I was hoping starfield would feel like startrek. But it feels a lot more like The Expanse in that it's a very "grounded" take on space.

[@jayg.2066]

I agree. It’s lore breaking but as long as the mod author creates a quest like “Uncover the ancient myth of the Locals of Planet X”, you reach the end to free the Aliens and the Aliens go to the surface, it would be really cool. Just like how the Maids II skyrim mod and a few others just add lore to Tamriel

[@GrayFox005]

there are two mods to lower the cost of registering ships but will they be save compatible?

[@ChitChat]

I actually prefer the color grading of each planet. I feel like I'm actually on different planets with different atmospheres. Making it all neutral just makes it feel like the same planet with a bunch of load screens.....oh wait.

[@canadianoperator]

Just out of curiosity, how did you clone Todd's voice like that? That was awesome :P

[@Loukeyo]

Glad you enjoyed it! It's a simple AI web app called 11labs

[@canadianoperator]

@@Loukeyo that’s wild man! Actually I did some digging and I found the same website. It’s insane how AI can do this. What a time to be alive man. In any case great work, I enjoyed the rest of the video too :)

[@Loukeyo]

@@canadianoperator thanks man!

[@nobunga7151]

The only reason I haven't started dabbling with mods yet, is because the aspect of manually updating them/waiting for them to be updated is just.. fucking aggravating.

[@Loukeyo]

That is the big downside I’m afraid! Atleast MO2 makes it easy to save a vanilla profile to switch to when an update breaks mods.

[@nobunga7151]

@@Loukeyo I keep my fingers crossed that, around a month or two from now, all these small fix mods will all be merged. Also, really hope that the turbo-nerds emerge from their respective fandoms, and mod in some wild shit. Halo, Star Wars, Star Trek, Warhammer, DeadSpace, MassEffect.. I think Bethesda didn't add more guns, because they knew that Modders would add 1000x that.

[@Loukeyo]

@@nobunga7151 im sure there will be overhaul mods that compile alot of the smaller changes. I agree aswell the fandom mods will be insane. A Star Wars total conversion mod would be huge. We desperately need creation kit to turn all these small mods into simple one click plugin files. A lot of the small ini tweaks tend to mess with my game which is why I only included a few that actually didn’t break anything.

[@DameWhoGames623]

I hope there will be something similar to wildlander which expands on most vanilla but everything is more interactive, this game has quite a lot but lacks the survival rpg vibes a bit.

[@xavierdoesntmatter]

I'm personally looking forward to a mod that actually makes the game a bit more survival like, particularly a need to refuel your ship. I know it won't be for many people. It'll force you to either have lots of fuel tanks or build outposts to refuel at and for some people that is annoying. But I think it's insane I can fly from one end of the galaxy to the other end of the galaxy with no fuel tanks and a jump drive that goes 28 LY even though there are loading screens saying you need to refuel and NPCs talking about running out of Helium-3 all the time.

[@skippychurch2965]

When they release survival, I'm excited to start all over. Only way to play fallout 4

[@arnograbner4741]

There a meanwhile several mods for that!

[@xavierdoesntmatter]

@@arnograbner4741 Ok. Which mod makes my ship actually use fuel and actually requires landing at an outpost to refuel? When I made this post 8 months ago they didn't exist.

[@DanPhantomFan]

I don't know a thing about mods or the game engine so I'll ask is it possible to have a mod removing loading screens? At least the ones to enter stores and elevators

[@Loukeyo]

Unfortunately that’s impossible from my knowledge. We can only make tweaks to speed them up.

[@jerseybound717]

People: i want more immersion Also people: this game doesn't have enough fast travel points i burnt out from flying and running every where.

[@highskilleddude1440]

This game should be called FastTravelField 😴 Fallout 4 is waay better as an open world game and such.

[@andrecontente6370]

Hell no, love my lvl up sound :)

[@Loukeyo]

The level-up sound is a huge hit of dopamine I can't lie!

[@andrecontente6370]

@@Loukeyo everyone have diferent opinions obviously but i love to ear that wen i lvl up xD

[@boopjackrex7598]

Can’t wait till mods come to console, I’m gonna continue playing my first save(NG+2) until then. But when mods get officially added I’m definitely making a new game

[@Loukeyo]

It's gonna be super fun, and I'm happy console players get to share modding. Took too damn long for you guys to get a piece of the pie. Hope you're having fun in your NG+2!

[@boopjackrex7598]

@@Loukeyo only problem I’m having with my game is that the quest locations for getting new powers is bugged and won’t show up even if I have the quest equipped. Aside from that though I’ve been having a blast, though I recently took a break to play Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

[@Loukeyo]

@@boopjackrex7598 I can't wait to get around to playing Phantom Liberty too!

[@highskilleddude1440]

I’ll start a brand new playthrough with no NG+ bs. And add all the survival mods and an upcoming survival mod. Loved the survival in Fallout 4 👍

[@thegrayowl1557]

It would be very handy to put links to the mods in the description of the video, so I don't need to rewatch the whole video just to find the names of the mods I came back for

[@Loukeyo]

Thanks for the feedback but I'm a bit confused, the mods are in the description.

[@thegrayowl1557]

@@Loukeyo Oh! That's my bad. KZbin changed its layout, and I didn't see the "Read More". Nevermind!

[@Loukeyo]

@@thegrayowl1557 No worries!

[@AsatruMetalhead]

how does caseless ammo leve cases behind? the old world weapons and maybe a few others sure, but most use sci-fi ammo

[@Loukeyo]

They don't, it's purely the ammo with casings. But with a world filled with sci-fi weapons. I can't help myself use the old earth weapons lol

[@AsatruMetalhead]

i also use them a lot!

[@user-of1fb7tm3h]

dark hdr luts on nexus are great too, not a fan of the chroma version because that one looks too bright on my monitor.

[@Loukeyo]

I’ll look into that one thanks!

[@ImAltair1]

5:10 with the upcoming addition of vehicles to the game this mod might become a little more feasible

[@ionseven]

Personally looking for more "lore" immersion vs "real space" immersion. For example actual Starborn/enemy dungeons or mega dungeons (not just 2 story buildings). Also needed at the Temples where there's no Starborn bosses and feels off. And other enemies _only_ really exist in abandoned bases? They've been out there for 200 years. Come on BGS.

[@6ch6ris6]

hm i actually like the visual filters

[@Obiwanwasabii]

How do you install Immersive Shell Casings? followed the instruction at the site. seems not working for me or is because im on xbox gamepass (pc)

[@Loukeyo]

It should work fine on gamepass, I myself can't test it for gamepass. Are you using MO2? And have the required mod Console Command Runner (CCR) installed?

[@Obiwanwasabii]

@@Loukeyo im not currently using MO2. for the CCR, i just paste in on data folder same with the immersive shell casing

[@Obiwanwasabii]

Just found out the SFSE is not supported on game pass. Sad

[@Loukeyo]

@@Obiwanwasabii that sucks! Hopefully it’s supported sooner rather than later! I’ve heard modders are having trouble with it due to Xbox’s way of putting game files in windows protected folders.

[@davidcarr2308]

i made a mod for vasco, called Titan Vasco and the glitch where he would turn into R2D2 started I made a fix in the mod to teleport him to you and set size to 1, try it out if you see vasco flying like R2D2

[@Mantelar]

Need explosions audio and gore. A large animal takes 50 rounds of 7.62, I should be able to tell at a glance. Need aggressive fight AI. Need to let NPCs live in their own little radiant world. Need immersive movement. Needs expanded hand to hand combat Get vehicles in the game to help with the silliness of the inventory system. Play NMS - yeah, all that jazz.

[@Yangy_Young]

I hate the Neutral LUTs mod honestly, like yeah it makes everything look more natural - IF YOU'RE ON EARTH. Akila City shouldn't feel like Earth lmao, the LUTs help sell that it's a different planet and set the tone for the culture there too.

[@Loukeyo]

I’ve never used it outside these videos either. I think it’s a great mod but as I’ve said in a previous video. It gives all the different planets it’s own tone.

[@RobertAhlgrim]

Can they mod away loading screens? That would be immersive.

[@Loukeyo]

Actual good one!

[@mike_d_melb_music_fan5229]

Do any of the combat mods make achievements not work ? Also, the landing immersion mod depends on something called Script Extender, and I heard, and I'm no expert, there was a chance it can disable achievements, and adversely affect the interface for Steam users ?

[@Loukeyo]

A lot of these mods can disable achievements but SFSE and Baka Achievement Enabler are dead easy to install and very stable in my experience. I have a guide on getting mod organiser 2 installed which make modding BGS games simple.

[@mike_d_melb_music_fan5229]

@Loukeyo thanks Heaps. My big thing is enabling landing / take off scenes even if been to a place. Apparently this is not easy to mod because Bethesda hare coded it ? But I'll give Immersive Landing a go 😊👍

[@Loukeyo]

@mike_d_melb_music_fan5229 yeah I’ve gotten a lot of comments about that. No mods that I know of can do it yet. Maybe creation kit will allow it when that’s released next year.

[@ChepeFlo]

@@LoukeyoThat’s unfortunate, since it kills the immersion for me personally. I guess I’ll have to put the game down until next year, unless if someone eventually manages to crack it. Here’s to hoping…

[@mike_d_melb_music_fan5229]

I've worked out that, by "achievements" put at risk, this is those silly game achievements that get advertised on your Steam profile. This is nothing to do with in game challenges that unlock skills - they are unaffected. That said, I have installed Starfield Script Extender, the Bakku achievements fix, the Immersive Grav Jumps and Immersive Take-offs Landing mods, and I have no problems or performance issues at all, and my XP progress is unaffected. These mods work as advertised and very well.

[@rayharvey1330]

What we really want is a MOD to turn all the fugly women in Starfield into hot Wifus. 🤓

[@nully304]

you can actually change how effective food is in the in-game skill point system

[@tiagodias8265]

By any chance does anyone knows if a seamless space travel mod is going to be a thing? I found no real reason to use my ship since space travel in this game is just a bunch of loading screens..

[@Loukeyo]

It was actually proven by a modder "105gun" that travel in space is possible. The mod "SlowerThanLight - Fly in a star system" makes it possible. There's a video on the nexus mod page showing it in action. Its extremely crude and not very functional but this is only because the creation kit isn't out yet. I've not researched deep into it but from a surface level it seems the artificial boundaries Bethesda has put in place are just that, artificial. The engine will not break if removed and a full space exploration mod isn't far fetched. However landing on a planet from space would need some development time as the planets you see are floating spheres with textures printed on them. They do orbit like real planets though which is sweet!

[@user-rx2ur5el9p]

It looks like it is actually feasible to get Starfield to the point where flying around is more comparable to No Man's Sky, which is great. I'm okay with landing on a planet being a loading screen, but being able to fly between planets will be great. Without that, even being in space at all feels kind of pointless, because you usually are only there for, like, three seconds until you press M and search for a place to land.

[@DumpsterJedi]

8:25 yeah, but if the atmosphere is made from different elements than earth, the refraction of light ends up being different as well- the color filters on planets are MORE immersive than making every planet look the same as Earth...

[@Loukeyo]

I never thought about this way until today, I personally don't use Neutral LUTs in my load order but like I said in the video all of these mods are based so much on personal preference that it's difficult to say whats right or wrong. Naturally people will just make up what they think is immersive. Thanks for the comment, love hearing what others think of mods!

[@MizterMoonshine]

Doesn't the Rayleigh scattering effect make all planetary atmospheres blue like Earth unless there's a lot of dust in the atmosphere like Mars or Venus

[@blastingweevil2968]

there should be a MOD to turn starfield into no mans sky or elite dangerous if you want an immersive space exploration game just for some context at size in elite dangerous it can take days if not weeks of constant Space jumps to get from one side of the galaxy/universe to the other....and you get massive amount of credits for tunring the info in also you get to name systems and they are permantly listed as being discorvered by you.

[@Loukeyo]

I’ve never played elite dangerous but that does seem interesting. I can’t say my attention span could last by the sounds of it lol.

[@psy-bun]

There are duplicate addons in here that make no sense, if one were to follow your list and get the More Subtle Sounds addons, it's weird that the next recommended addon is Silent Sounds, which basically removes those sounds and making the other above addons useless. Same with the Less Intrusive HUD, fine to use but then the next addon also changes the HUD, making both incompatible and you having to choose. One would think that someone making a youtube video about making "Starfield more immersive" would use a list of addons that work together, and as a bunch make it more immersive. That's simply not the case, and like so many idiots on youtube, this is just a random list of addons that sort of fit the category (all while ignoring seemingly duplicates). It seems it's more made because you need a video for views and revenue, than it is to showcase the immersive Starfield addons. Just a gripe, I mean it did get me to find a few nice addons but the title is highly misleading.

[@andrewbarragan3626]

Try out "Into the Void" mod and "No Space Dust"

[@Loukeyo]

I'll check them out, thank you!

[@ALiberalVeteran]

Hopefully starfield will give us a hard-core mode along the lines of fallout four, which was pretty good. Most of these mods should have already been in the game completed by the developers.

[@Loukeyo]

100% That combined with some hardcore survival mods are gonna make a very interesting playthrough!

[@helygg8892]

What are you 5? You don't like the Lego set don't buy it and don't complain about how Lego should have made it Bethesda embraces their modders and pretty much just releases games just to be modded this should coulda woulda attitude is ridiculous.

[@Loukeyo]

@@helygg8892 Love the lego analogy haha! Gamers expect alot nowadays so it's unsprising to see alot of the "bethesda shoulda done this." Everyones entitled to their own thoughts though. I'm so happy Starfield is what is. A single player RPG this huge in todays time is rare and the fact we got this, BG3 and Cyberpunk 2077 in one year is crazy! RPG fans are eating good

[@helygg8892]

@@Loukeyo I totally agree. I'm just personally tired of everything today in gaming being taken as some kind of slight by the developers lol like dude they're just nerds trying their best in most cases. I'm sure if it was just the dev team and only the dev team then yeah games would be totally different but you have so much attached to the companies these days. Just kinda feels like gamers and getting a bit entitled just my opinion.

[@headbangerdnb]

Starfield is, by far, the least immersive BGS game yet. The only mod that would be able to fix this loading screen infested, menu simulator of a game, is if someone somehow miraculously rebuilds the entire game in StarEngine or UE

[@bigblue9484]

😮AT 7:05 WHAT POWER OR ??? DO I NEED TO MAKE THE ENEMIES APPEAR LIKE PREDATOR SEES THEM???

[@Loukeyo]

Thats a sight mod you put on your gun at any weapon workbench. You need a certain level of weapon workbench skill. I believe the sight is called recond sight. Another mod tags enemies like this aswell I think!

[@XKathXgames]

Melee needs to be fixed asap. Not just damage but animations and reactivity. I shouldn't have to wait a full second after I hit the attack button for my character to actually attack and I most definitely should NOT have to press the button twice 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@Loukeyo]

To be honest I haven’t touched melee in the game but that sucks to hear.

[@mrsinister8943]

Will console players be able to use any mods? I dont know how that works on console.

[@analogfilth]

Just like Skyrim and Fallout 4 mods on console, yes eventually that will be available for Starfield on console.

[@Loukeyo]

I would be surprised if you guys don't get to use mods since you did for fallout 4. You will have to wait till next year when creation kit arrives but honestly as you can tell by the list I made. Mods are very early stage and not "impressive" yet.

[@Ahglock]

Removing the soundtracks is less immersive as in the future my life damn well better come with a soundtrack.

[@WDMurphy]

OK 3:00 is how hard-mode should be one or two hits dead you and them.

[@Loukeyo]

It's how ALOT of people prefer it. My most memorable moments playing Fallout and Skyrim are when this exact rule is applied. Makes every descision during combat so impactful. Not exactly about damage but after making this video Todd Howard said in an interview that they intentionaly made the AI dumb, His direct quote was; "you have to make the AI really stupid" and that they should be like "hey player, why don't you just shoot me for a while?" I full believe this is how Todd designs his games as all previous BGS are like this. But I think alot of people would love AI to not always just feel like targets.

[@WDMurphy]

@@Loukeyo I agree (I did see the interview and seen many Devs say how they need to dumb down NPCs) but yes the harder difficulty should be smarter NPCs as well as fewer bullet sponges also harder environmental effects. We'll just need to see if they add a survival mode, but I highly doubt thy will make the NPCs act smarter.

[@James_Bee]

NPCs do NOT need to be dumber, if anything they need to be smarter. They just don't need to be bullet sponges. Nobody likes bullet sponges.

[@Loukeyo]

@@WDMurphy Survival mode would be neat. I think ship fuel needing to be harvested may be a cool gimmick, would need to be balanced to not get tedious though. No Mans Sky ship fuel drives me crazy, everything always needs recharging.

[@nuclear_panda86]

That mantle does not look more natural. Lol. Its way too fast. However, that weird step thing being removed is a good improvement.

[@Loukeyo]

lol yeah I forgot to show the 50% speed one. The one used was 70% which does look odd. There are multiple versions varying in speed as-well as ones with no delay. Also, love the profile picture!

[@nuclear_panda86]

@@Loukeyo man's got incredible forearm strength 😅

[@James_Bee]

The fade on that scope mod shouldn't exist at all. It isn't how scopes or our eyes work. Scopes and reticles try to give as much of a sight picture, and clearly, as possible. The operator should adjust it so that they can see their target AND still have unobstructed peripheral vision for situational awareness. Anyway. Gun gripes in videogames.

[@Loukeyo]

You clearly know alot more about guns than me! But I mean even to me the default scope overlay in these Bethesda games just doesn't feel natural.

[@KevHCloud]

good video but perhaps an idea is to leave the name of the current on mod screen during the whole discussion about it, I'm terrible at quickly remembering names so once you've told me the name of the mod, then described, then I decide it looks good I want to go grab it I need to go back in the video to find out the actual name again lol or ignore me, I'm just a random dude and I'm just being lazy not wanting to rewind the video a few times to find names that I don't remember lol.

[@Loukeyo]

Ignore feedback?! Never! I'll play around with that idea for my next video and see if it flows nicely, thank you!

[@KevHCloud]

cool, I like mod showcases but very few keep my interest, your presentation and delivery are well done though so you've got yourself a new sub.

[@Loukeyo]

@@KevHCloud I appreciate that very much, thank you!

[@zillaquazar]

I want a radio. We are in the future with a space ship but don't have a radio?

[@Loukeyo]

The lack of radio was dissapointing! starfieldradio.com is quite amazing, there is also a mod that implements it in game but without creation kit its janky.

[@mikestanmore2614]

Todd's statements age like clotted cream. I like the game, even given its' shortcomings, but AI Todd made me actually LOL. 🙂

[@Ennio444]

"Starfield is one of the most immersive..." WAT

[@Loukeyo]

Haha I have no idea why I said that. Morrowind is more immersive

[@73rmin8r]

Is there one that lets me actually fly my damn ship?

[@Loukeyo]

Skyrim got modded into a From Software game, Fallout was modded into Call of Duty, and Starfield will no doubt be modded into No Mans Star Citizen.

[@73rmin8r]

@@Loukeyo if somebody pulls that off I'll be extremely happy

[@BobMarley-ck4wv]

Why won’t my Chem and food mod work

[@tiagodias8265]

For all the modders out there: Do you know when you are crouching you get almost invisible? Why did bethesda do that? Its really hard to aim because your weapon is almost transparent! Is there any fix for this issue??

[@Jasondurgen]

Add a scope

[@user-rx2ur5el9p]

Yeah, I find that really annoying, too. A mod to fix that will for sure pop up eventually, but I'm not aware of one yet.

[@dasshaker2372]

I haven't tried yet, but for those not wanting a scope does the laser attachment work? Not sure if it makes you more noticeable to NPCs.

[@tiagodias8265]

@@Jasondurgen i know.. but i shouldnt need to add a scope in order to aim, right? Its simply a bad design choice.. if you crouch you cant aim unless you add a scope or play 3rd person.. its just stupid

[@kswitch265]

What? Lmao I aim and crouch no problem all the time? First or third person never had anything like you are describing are you sure you know the controls? Lol

[@mordreddelavirac]

You know i never understood why they made food absolutely useless both in Skyrim and in this one (maybe to leave something for the modders?). Also, i must say, Starfield vanilla was a horrible experience for me. I found it to be boring and uninteresting. Could not even complete my second playthrough. Guess i am going to wait for DLC (if there is going to be one) and more mods.

[@Loukeyo]

Why add it amirite? Guess it looks pretty in starfield

[@BoydLakeMaine]

90% of all the ammo is caseless.

[@steffithemad8327]

I installed the Uninstall mod.

[@basedsketch4133]

Vasco is Gundam

[@davidcarr2308]

Use a sub bass when you play this game you wont regret it!

[@benjamindenes4194]

8 years in the making what a shame, desiging the food was the priority i guess.

[@dvntew3020]

Why make a mod for music while you could just turn off the main music through settings

[@Loukeyo]

That is a lot easier to do, but it would mean story moments have no music. I definitely should have added that point but all the music mods cut out the sounds without disrupting that story music.

[@mauricioh.moreira6347]

😀

[@davegordon8602]

A mod to shut-up your annoying companions would be great

[@scubasteve2189]

They could call it the “Ball Gag Mod”. 😂

[@scubasteve2189]

By the way, I find Andreja to be the least annoying to travel with, because she doesn’t have as many nagging comments as Sarah and some others. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Maybe it’s just because she’s hotter, though. 😂

[@Sheppardsg1]

if only installation of these mods would be simply explained i do all what is requied but some are not working for some reason

[@Loukeyo]

Sorry to hear that! I have planned a super long in-depth tutorial to help anyone struggling. I'm just waiting on MO2 to become more publicly available instead of just on their discord dev builds. Makes me wonder if I should make a discord server so people can help eachother out! For now though I can help best I can here. I would get the latest dev build of MO2 via their discord. You should be able to find a link with a google search. I have a video on how to install and set it up. There is a new option when installing that automatically enables modding for you. It's obviously hard for me to know exactly what mods you are installing but if I had to guess alot of ini edit mods such as deadly difficulty are not intutiative to install just yet. My advice would be finding mods that are labelled CCR (www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/2740). This mod is the most elegant solution to ini tweak mods. All you need is SFSE installed then it's as simple as letting your mod manager install it for you. What CCR does is essentially run any of these ini tweaks for you! Again huge guide will be coming explaining these concepts in video form. Hopefully this helps atleast a little bit for now! Thank you for commenting

[@RidoDrago]

Read their descriptions... sometimes, you need to add a line in the .ini file manually even though you've used a mod manager like Vortex... manually, you need to do every single step in the descriptions... i have about 25 mods, some of which were shown in this video, and theyre all working...

[@Sheppardsg1]

aye tnx bud :)@@Loukeyo

[@universal_wisdom3416]

We need a mod that places more geographical areas of interest. These would all be crafted by hand and placed on a specific place on planets and moons. On a barren planet for example, if there were a crater that lead to a tunnel system or something with a little story inside of human occupation from many years ago or something like that. Like a miner that made tunnel systems trying to find something, and a few slates describing what was happening. With his corpse at the end crushed by the tunnel collapsing. Just something that gives you something to dive into and discover for a few minutes before leaving the planet. On a planet with lush forests, maybe the same mod could add tree folk that have lived off the land for decades. And after a hostile introduction, you get a chance to try to gain their trust, and a new side quest begins. If we start sprinkling mods like this throughout the settled systems, I think a lot of planets in the settle systems would have a lot more character. Obviously it can’t be one unique encounter per planet, so maybe multiple mod authors could band together to create a more fruitful experience on every planet and moon.

[@Loukeyo]

The only thing holding modders back is the lack of creation kit but your ideas are incredible! Like the vault stories from Fallout, this subtle way of story telling through environment, location and audio logs is perfect! Finding out yourself what happened and why it happened without anyone explaining it to you is what we all love about RPGs and I have no doubt modders will create not only small side quests but whole new hand crafted systems. Thanks for the comment, was a great read!

[@cargorunner9960]

You must be joking! Starfield is the LEAST immersive BGS game ever. It's totally fragmented and you spend most of your time waiting for loading screens, waiting for doors, waiting for your boost pack to recharge, waiting to get your health back, waiting for vendors to restock the ammo you need. The loading screen jpgs are not even your ship, charactr or planet. They are exceptionally immersion breaking. With so much waiting you check your phone you think about something else.

[@Loukeyo]

Ouch! Thinking deeper about it the loading screens do kill any immersion the game had built up.

[@user-rx2ur5el9p]

If you take in-game photos, they will appear as your loading screen sometimes.

[@cargorunner9960]

@@user-rx2ur5el9p I have heard that. But I change ships & planets. And ideally the loading screen should be your current ship & current or new location. So that you have a natural transition instead of 3 unrelated visuals. Once the modding tools are available I am sure we will get some great immersion overhauls

[@lgamradt]

Being immersed by all the loading screens

[@jerome6383]

Starfield is a great loading screen simulation with some faulty action in between. But I like that.

[@ImaSMACKHEAD982]

Its crazy that a modder can do more for a game than any dev update 🤦‍♂️

[@Loukeyo]

Yep, especially nowadays since large AAA studios have so many higher ups micro managing them. Modders can just get it done and shipped within days. It's even crazier when like recently, BGS added an upscaling fix that a modder did a few weeks ago. But implemented it wrong. The modder had to release a second version fixing their poor implementation!

[@arthurtwa]

I came here to have SOME KIND of inmersion. Modders will have lot of work to do with this game.

[@GodWentAFK]

#21: play Cyberpunk instead

[@Loukeyo]

Why not both?

[@Masuuruhiito]

All this is nice but no matter how much make up you put on a corpse it's still dead. This game is absolutely soulless.

[@Loukeyo]

Put it better than anyone else could. Starfield lacks that special sauce that other RPGs have. Despite its cool space punk aesthetic there is nothing that makes it stands out. It’s just a space RPG with no flare.

[@investigatingdwarf]

...most immersive? It's among the least immersive games I've ever played.

[@dylanmelotti4301]

First thought that came to mind. Starfield is handsdown the least immersive game I have ever played in my life. I recently gotten into Star Citizen and have felt more immersed in that game just landing on a planet and walking out of my ship.

[@mrnobody043]

Not gonna lie, the NPC textures in this game are horrible for a 2023 game with the budget Bethesda/Microsoft had. After i installed the latest Cyberpunk add-on i decided to start a new game on Cyberpunk 2077 and the difference isn't even funny. When you play Starfield and speak with a NPC you are kinda locked in an unnatural conversation where the NPC's body is facing in a certain direction and it will only turn it's HEAD towards were you stand.. it will stand perfectly straight, arms downwards and its head turned 90 degrees if you stand next to it or behind it.. like they are in a military line-up.. Cyberpunk has none of that, they are casually doing their thing while talking to you as if it were someone real. The skin textures in cyberpunk are also top notch, even able to see the veins.. this especially is noticeable when in the beginning you get your first implant from Vik, the ripperdoc. Don't get me wrong, Starfield is enjoyable but it just feels and looks like fallout 4 with slightly improved textures in a space setting. The mechanics are still as wonky as in the 2015 fallout 4 game.. And that's how it feels.. I like it because i liked fallout 4 and played so much that i think i like Starfield because of nostalgia for their previous games and not because of new ground breaking things.. It's just exactly the same product they have been making before in their elder scrolls and fallout line-up.. it's just in space. looking at all the AAA games that are out and actually comparing the NPCs textures and behaviour to those games, it really falls behind. Of course when you compare it to older "Bethesda" only games, yes it's an improvement but i think it should be compared to other games outside of bethesda, it's not competing with themselves but with other game producers. Some people are forgetting that it's not just about improving the game from previous ones but it needs to be on par with current other companies. It just doesn't and i feel that while it is a success at the moment, people will get bored real fast as its mechanics offer nothing new. Just my opinion. (edit: be honest with me, you like this game for the same reason i do: because you loved fallout 4! )

[@Loukeyo]

Yeah I do love starfield because I love fallout 4 haha. To be honest my expectations were quite low for NPCs and how they look given how old the engine is but I can’t lie that I was impressed by what they have achieved with it. It’s not Cyberpunk 2077 or any unreal engine game but it has its qualities. The improved physics engine in particular is very impressive. I think the main reason they refuse to let go of the creation engine is it’s ability to be heavily modified. The community have been learning the ins and outs of this engine for so long that to switch to something like the unreal engine would mean no modding support. It would cost a hell of a lot of time and money to get a creation kit equivalent. And then even more time for the community to relearn it. I’ve heard this from a few modders in the community but it could be speculation or completely wrong. Despite that your points you bring up are true and valid and it’s good to be critical so that we consumers get the best product, thanks for your comment!

[@iyziejane]

I bet Starfield being big on reddit and tiny on Twitch is a generational divide (reddit is bigger with millenials, twitch is bigger with gen Z). Gen Z probably has higher standards for games having clean animations, cinematic cut scenes, etc. Also the general setting of an optimistic future where humans colonize space connects more with millennials (just compare 90s Star Trek to modern Trek).

[@usprulse]

If you look at starfield it's filled with Cut content, you can see it in the HABS which seems useless but in a DLC it's gonna be manned by crews you will have battle ships etc. Todd purposely bring out a bare minimum outdated game, to milk it as much as possible. Why the game feels so bland, incomplete, rushed, empty copy paste planets is just because of that. He promotes "open world" but is filled with invisible walls and loading screens. No ingame maps, no interaction in ship flying or space exploration such as "mining/EVA" and so on. The skills, weapons, traits and such is bland and boring. Choices in the game have 0 impact in the game. Heck the game sets up in a distance future, but all the weapons = outdated i mean even in Cyberpunk 2077 has more futureristic weapons and implants then in starfield ??? And starfield is set about 200 years in the future. Bethesda game plan is: 1. waiting for modding community to make it a good game 2. milk more money of the new IP.

[@Loukeyo]

A very cynical way to look at things haha, The part about guns was funny to me. The fact over 300 years in the future the best weapon is still the AK-47 and 1911! 😆 About everything else you said though, I'm a very relaxed person when it comes to harsh opinions. For example when Cyberpunk first came out, I could see everyones complaints and they were absolutely deserved and correct. But it didn't stop me from putting 60 hours in. Sometimes it's hard to explain why you love something so much, but Bethesda just has this charm or tone that I enjoy alot. Thank you for your comment though, i love hearing others takes!

[@James_Bee]

That's why I don't buy new games. Wait a year when the GOTY comes out with all the content packaged in and all the fixes. By then the creation kit will be out and mods will just get better.

[@Loukeyo]

@@James_Bee Smart Guy ^

[@usprulse]

i have 150 hours in to Starfield, i enjoy it i love the shipbuilding..doing only that and some mission but it feels lacking. In Skyrim i did the same i focus more in building my character as "bad ass as possible" It could be good, i feel that gaming companies failed when they saw BG3. Starfield had potential in wining from Starcitzen. which in turn forces SC to do their job better. Sadly but yea :D i think the creactor of the AK would be happy knowing that 200+ years in the future the AK is still OP :D @@Loukeyo