First off, I'd just like to say that I'm grateful that Starfield's photo-mode has these frames in it that put 'Starfield' on the image. xD Because, I don't know if you've noticed, but I've become quite lazy at creating header images for my posts. This little eensy feature pleases me.
Second of all, I just want to announce to whomever reads this: StarUI is now a thing! As seen in the screenshot above. It only deals with the inventory menu, but I'm looking forward to the day all the other menus are cleaned up too!
You can find it on NexusMods here:
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/773
Keeping in mind that more updates will likely come for it in future days. It's already had five updates since being originally uploaded so undoubtedly more will be coming. Either way. I've got it and it makes me soooo happy.
So, naturally, I've been absolutely living in this game since I bought it in the middle of its five-day early access. I'm currently 30 hours in and I've loved every moment of it so far.
Performance-wise, I did end up getting the Nvidia DLSS mod that's on NexusMods (not PureDark's — imagine, charging money for a mod other people make for free) but I'm looking forward to when Bethesda codes it into their game properly. I'm now getting a solid 60fps on High/Ultra settings at 4K. Keeping in mind my resolution is set to 78% of that. At least you can't notice.
I also grabbed a ReShade that removes the overly green "sci-fi" tone of the game, also. Makes the entire game so much clearer which is lovely. You can find that here:
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/235
The game is lovely to look at as is... but now it's gorgeous without the green tint.
But then — I'm pretty easy to please. I think Skyrim is gorgeous too. Even moreso with modded 4K textures created by the playerbase and not the devs. As such, I'm sooooo looking forward to modders creating their own textures for this game.
If history repeats itself — which I am certain it will — player-made 4K textures will be vastly superior in appearance and in size, thus enabling the game to run smoother.
Here's a picture of my character standing proudly over her first outpost.
During some quests that I did, I picked up two people I met at the very start of the game and discovered that they had a knack of Outpost Management and Outpost Engineering. So I decided I'd better build an outpost so they had somewhere to go.
It's a small ugly thing with my minimal resources, but I've got them farming up some Chlorine. Ahhhhh, it's just like No Man's Sky all over again. Farming Chlorine! — I don't think Chlorine is very useful for anything or worthy of trading, but I just wanted to build an outpost and that was the first resource in the area. xD
I haven't gotten very far in the main story quests. I've just been roaming around, doing side quests, exploring random places. I've taken over a few pirate ships and sold them.
I'm a little disappointed that ships aren't worth more. When you go into the ship-building menu, you can easily spend hundreds of thousands of credits fiddling around with everything. I don't have enough money yet to make my dream ship.
BUT.
Find a ship? Kill the crew and take it over? Go to sell it? You fly it to the nearest spaceship tech, register the vehicle for 13,000 or whatever... and then... sell it for 16,000 for a tiny 3k profit. Not worth it at all.
So I'm just farting around, doing my own thing. You know, what you're supposed to do in a Bethesda game. xD
I think what I would like to do is just roam around, do bounties, do a couple of quests, earn some money, then build up a bunch of different outposts all over the galaxy. Each one will have different things to mine, and then I'll build a huuuuuge cargo ship! And get all the outposts to transfer everything to the cargo ship automatically. And then I'll be the greatest resource goblin the galaxy has ever seen.
Inventory space is the main thing you need to manage in this. All those resources you find for crafting weigh a heap. I put an extra cargo bay on my ship so I have 750kg I can haul and it's still not enough. I'm gonna need around 10,000kg. 😅
I've found a few items of gear with carry capacity on them, thankfully, so my character can currently carry 225kg of gear around. And at the Constellation Lodge, there is an infinite storage box in your room. But I want all my resources on my ship since you can craft directly from the cargo hold.
Finally, to end today's post, I'd like to share my favourite screenshot I've taken so far. Not because it's a beautiful screenshot, but because it was a fun one!
We were having a shoot-out in a no gravity environment!! So much fun! 😁
All screenshots in this post are courtesy of me, 
