Squash all those irritating Starfield bugs with this essential community patch mod

Starfield

Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.

Those who’ve been waiting to be able to grab a Starfield mod that rectifies many of the minor bugs and issues that Bethesda hasn’t quite gotten to yet are in luck; the first version of the game’s community patch is here.

For those out of the loop, the mod, which was in the works from a theoretical standpoint before the game even came out, is quite similar in terms of scope and aims to Skyrim and Fallout 4’s unofficial patches. The mission statement of the team behind it, some of whom also worked on those previous projects, “to fix bugs, errors and other inconsistencies present in the game”, with the hopes of improving “the vanilla experience for all players.”

Version 0.0.1 of the patch, which went live on Nexus Mods late yesterday, comes with a lengthy list of changes, many of which were likely made thanks to the issues players have been highlighting in their submissions to the mod’s official website. Among the most noteworthy tweaks this time are a couple made to the behaviour of companions.

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