New Starfield Mod Gives Players a Fresh Perspective During Conversations

A new quality-of-life mod lets players turn off Starfield’s fixed first-person dialogue camera in the PC version of Bethesda’s sprawling sci-fi RPG.

Starfield released back in September laden with design choices that drew clear inspiration from earlier Bethesda titles, including a sometimes jarring Oblivion-esque dialogue camera that forces players into a first-person perspective as it zooms in on a conversational partner.

Now, a new mod created by AntoniX is giving RPG enthusiasts the chance to disable Starfield’s dialogue camera and set their own personalized parameters for the chatty encounters. Alongside disabling the initial zoom, the mod lets players force a first or third-person perspective during conversations, while also enabling free movement during the ordinarily static gameplay sections.

“Sweet space Jesus, immersion just got a whole lot better,” commented Reddit user giveitrightmeow on a post showcasing the mod. “This should’ve been an option from day 1.”

“This happened to me through bugs […] randomly in my playthrough, and it felt soooo much better than when you get jolted into the close up view,” said user Saracre21. “I don’t really know why bethesda chose to do the close up camera again instead of this (similar to how Cyberpunk does it) especially when they know they don’t have good facial animations for the majority of the characters.”

The Disable Dialogue Camera mod is just the latest in a long line of digital adjustments crafted by the Starfield community in a bid to add much-requested customization and quality-of-life gameplay features to the sprawling sci-fi RPG.

One particularly ambitious mod implemented an entirely new fast-travel system, which allowed players to seamlessly travel between planets without encountering a single load screen. Others worked to adjust the look of the game, and overhaul the RPG’s less than perfect inventory system. There’s also a community patch effort going on in the background that aims to address known issues with the vanilla experience without stepping on Bethesda’s toes.

Of course, modders will be modders, which means that there’s also a good number of ridiculous player-made alterations out there, including one that turns every spaceship into Thomas the Tank Engine, and another which, for reasons known only to god, replaces the Bethesda intro video with a PlayStation Studios one.

Check out IGN’s guide on how to download mods for the PC version of Starfield here, and be sure to make the most of our walkthroughs and interactive maps to get the most out of Bethesda’s content packed sci-fi RPG.

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