Skyrim came with a built-in mod editor?
Are you perhaps thinking of the manager they added on Xbox?
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PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Starfield could have been a way better game if all they did was fuck it up like 89% less.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 months ago
cygon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They always release their “Creation Kit” which is apparently also what the Bethesda employees use to build the quests and NPCs in their games:
- …steampowered.com/…/Skyrim_Special_Edition_Creati…
- store.steampowered.com/…/Fallout_4_Creation_Kit/
- store.steampowered.com/…/Starfield_Creation_Kit/
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The Starfield Creation Kit was only released a week ago (but I think to remember that there was a big delay in its release for Skyrim and Fallout, too - haven’t done any modding since the Skyrim days).
BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 5 months ago
That sounds like a lot of work. And what for? The game sold well, the next one will as well. Why people buy it? I have no idea.
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
There was this editor that let you make esm files. I can’t remember if it was already in tye game folder or you had to download it but it must not have been hard to set up. I remember using it to make one of the buy able houses really big in the inside.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Starfield could have been a way better game if all they did was fuck it up like 45% less.
Compared to the KOTOR series, it was lifeless. Compared to Mass Effect, it was very boring. Frustrating for a game with such strong precedents to land so weakly. But they put so much energy into quantity of content that they forgot to invest in quality.
They could have alternatively just delivered on their promises of making the game easy to mod and let the community handle the rest but they fucked that up too.
The goal was to create a game that procedurally generated itself, not one where individual hobbyists expanded it manually.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Starfield’s big problem is it’s a huge universe built on an engine that really can’t support massive worlds like that. The reason you can’t fly around on the surface of a planet is because their crappy engine can’t cope with that much space existing, and it can’t load more environment when you get to the edges like every other game does because their engine doesn’t support proper level streaming.
If you mod the game to force the issue it gets glitchy very very quickly.