I’m out of the loop on modding Bethesda games like Fallout and Elder Scrolls but I’ve seen some posts here and there about using Nexus games.
Assuming Starfield is using the same engine, system, structure, etc, how possible do you think it would be to install mods? I’m going to be purchasing on Steam and running the game through Proton on Arch. Thanks.
Honestly, if the culture around modding the game develops around one specific modding tool and injector, it’s always a major headache for platforms like Linux.
If instead they follow the much better and modern approach of quite simply posting the mod and dependencies on Nexus Mods, modding on Linux is no different than Windows.
Minecraft modding is a shining example of how to do it imo, install modloader > dump mods in mods folder
I suppose it has the advantage of being java though
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MO2 is easy as pie to set up (if ya know what you’re doing). Basically, you just gotta change the steam launch options a wee bit and then ya got it. Something like ‘echo %command% > /dev/null && /your/path/to/proton run modorganizer2installer.exe’ then once its installed you change the path from the installer executable to the modorganizer executable! Ezpz
I’ve never played Starfield, but I haven’t had issues with Elder Scrolls mods on Proton. If the Nexus Mods app doesn’t work, you can just download the individual mods from their website, which I prefer anyway.
Skyrim and Fallout Modding are, kind of, the reason I still have a Windows installation on my PC.
Most of it works great in Linux but Tools like Nemesis or even worse Synthesis will either don’t start at all or produce walls of errors when run in Linux.
Basic Starfield modding will most likely be not an issue at all.
Skyrim and Fallout mods work great! The mod organizer I use, MO2, is pretty laggy though. So I imagine it’ll be the same with starfield.
I found running mo2 through the github script and then disregarding the recommended proton version for version 8 fixed all the GUI lag and then allowed me to launch most modding tools, as well as enabling better vfs support
What GitHub script are you referring to? I know of one but I definitely still have a super laggy mo2.
Yup. Playing fallout tale of two wastelands with multiple mod packs (over 100 mods) on Linux and using steamtinkerlaunch I had no issues.
Mo2 is far from perfect but a hell of a lot easier to get working on Linux than vortex
I haven’t even tried with vortex tbh, I didn’t use it even on windows.
On windows it was pretty good if a little laggy (electron)
Oh it’s an electron app, that explains the hate.
I think it shouldn’t be a problem. I’m currently playing fallout tale of two wastelands on Linux mint. Once I found steamtinkerlaunch it was so easy to mod.
@octobob If you can get Starfield to run on Linux, mods will most likely work too. Just don’t expect things like script extenders to work.
