Most of the hardcore Bethesda fans who’ve invested thousands of hours into Skyrim and Fallout 4 couldn’t wait for the chance to blast off into Starfield.
No matter whether you paid for early access or jumped into the game on September 6, odds are if you’ve avoided spending all day getting up to wacky hijinks with the Adoring Fan, you’ve likely already blazed through a lot of missions and moulded your character into a hardened spacer.
Whether you’re after better rewards for your exploratory efforts or a way to stop NPCs from staring into your soul, the game’s modding scene is already home to a bunch of works that can augment your adventures in space, with one of the latest being worth checking out if you’re looking to totally revamp your HUD.
Have you ever thought the loot menus in Starfield could do with a revamp?
The mod in question is called ‘StarUI HUD’ and is the work of modder m8r98a4f2. Those who’ve played Fallout 4 on PC will likely be familiar with one of their previous works, the uber-popular ‘FallUI.’
This time, they’ve created a companion mod for ‘StarUI Inventory’, their uber-popular overhaul of the game’s inventory menus, which currently ranks as the most downloaded and endorsed mod on Starfield’s Nexus Mods page.
As you might have gleaned from its name, their newest work provides some incredibly useful improvements to the rest of the game’s HUD and can be used to tweak it to suit your personal preferences.
Some key examples of the former include a new Loot-O-Meter that “displays a bar below your cross-hair which fills up [according to] the value per mass value of the item [you’re looking at]. So you can easily see what's worth [taking]!"
This can work alongside the mod’s upgraded item-type icons and cards, as well as its revised looting menus, which are designed to look more compact and detailed in a similar fashion to StarUI Inventory, to make gathering resources or hoovering up sellable goods during a dungeon run a lot less of a pain.
Plus, there are some quality-of-life changes designed to make it much harder to accidentally steal items, which is a relief for those who don’t suddenly want to end up dealing with a surprise bounty accrued by pilfering the wrong potted plant or potato.
The mod also allows you to move around, re-size, hide, or change the colour of most HUD elements, allowing you to develop your own personal setup, assuming the three preset options it comes with don’t quite mesh with your preferences.
Regardless of whether you’re now enjoying a green HUD that evokes some lovely Fallout 3-based nostalgic vibes, make sure to follow us for lots of guides to Starfield’s characters, mechanics, and quests, as well as updates on DLC whenever they arrive.
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