Prospective Starfield modders are organizing early to make a fan patch

First spotted by PCGamesN (opens in new tab), a group of modders is already coalescing to create a Starfield Community Patch (opens in new tab) to address bugs in the game, even though we’re still more than half a year out from the highly-anticipated sci-fi RPG’s planned release.

There’s a rich history of fan fixes for Bethesda games. Alongside flashier mods that add Master Chief to Skyrim (opens in new tab) or a McDonald’s to Morrowind (opens in new tab), projects like the Unofficial Oblivion Patch (opens in new tab) do the thankless, lunch pail work of addressing mesh errors, scripting hiccups, and mismatched item enchantments that withstood official bug fixes. Grabbing the equivalent patch for a given game is usually my first stop after reinstalling an old favorite, especially when it comes to those running on the Gamebryo and Creation engines Bethesda’s been building on since Morrowind (and has brought forward to Starfield.)