“We’ve usually been classically single-player.”: Todd Howard Confirms Starfield Features Huge Fan-Requested Mechanic from Day One

There’s no getting away from it. We’re less than six weeks away from the release of Starfield, and like you, we’re getting excited. Between the release of the recent animated shorts, highlighting new factions and cities, to the interviews where Todd Howard keeps on sprinkling enticing and teasing pieces of information, it seems like the days are crawling by, and by God we want our hands on Starfield already.

On the topic of Todd Howard, he once again has said something that has perked our ears up and got us just a little more excited for Starfield. If that’s possible.

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In the same way Ed Boon does for Mortal Kombat, Todd Howard spends his days stealth-marketing Starfield without us ever realising it. Constant interviews and press appearances mean we’re getting information and passing it on to you, the fans, in ways trailers simply don’t cut it any more.

In his latest stint discussing the game, this time with Kinda Funny Xcast, Todd Howard was talking about how important the community is to Bethesda and their games, but specifically this time round, the modders amongst us.

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It’s no secret that for certain people, buying the game is just the start of their journey in Starfield. There will be thousands of videos online days after releases, with various mods allowing players to do all sorts. You’ll have the usual naked mods, the Thomas the Tank Engine mods and no doubt Shrek mods, but you’ll also have entire teams of volunteers modding their own storylines, cities, civilisations and more directly into the game, just like those who are making Fallout: London.

Modding is a big deal, and unlike some developers who take the time to banish and destroy the work of the community, Bethesda welcomes it, and this trait seems to be carrying on with Starfield in mind.

Originally announced during a Reddit AMA in 2021, Todd Howard expanded upon the modding community and what it means during his talk with Kinda Funny.

“We’ve usually been classically single-player. That’s been our community, and people are still modding our games and playing them. So we’re doing a lot of it, and I think one of the things I’ll call out is that it’s not just important for us to enable that, but to participate, right? To make it easy for them, to make this not just a hobby but a career. We’ve had a lot of great success there.”

Games like Fallout and Skyrim have enjoyed such longevity arguably because of the mod support across the board, with both consoles and PC able to join in on the fun. Without these mods, many would no doubt have grown bored of the same content day-in, day-out, but twelve years on, we’re still seeing incredibly detailed, modern mods for Skyrim that make it rival todays AAA releases, or in some cases, even surpass them.

What do you make of this? Are you one of those that’ll take Starfield and mod it into a completely different game? Or will you leave it as original as the day it launched? Let us know what your plans are in the comments!

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