Summary
Starfieldoffers plenty of freedom to players when it comes to building their own space-faring vessel, and one of them took their assignment a bit too literally by designing a gun-shaped gunship. Thoughfinding good weapons inStarfieldis an important aspect of character progression, the game also urges players not to neglect their starship. The Frontier may have its quaint charm during the opening hours ofStarfield, but it won’t carry players deep into the endgame.
Whether through buying a new ship inStarfield, or by designing their own, players have to keep upgrading their vehicle to be able to fend off increasingly harder ambushes from the Crimson Fleet, or even just to tackle side quests that involve space combat. However, ships inStarfieldrepresent the game’s most obvious money sink, which is why it’s not only recommended for players to keep saving their credits, but also to establish passive sources of income throughStarfield’s outpost system.
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The ship builder was used by aStarfieldplayer named ComCrisis to design and construct a vessel that quite transparently encapsulates the main function of a starship in the Settled Systems: as a weapon of deterrence. The shape is that of a pistol, and since the design was shared on the officialStarfieldsubreddit, other fans couldn’t help but wonder if the ship’s name was “Desert Eagle”, or perhaps more accurately, “Space Eagle”. True to a genuine firearm, the ship’s design also makes it so that its weapons all fire from the barrel of the gun.
It’s admittedly a quite clever design, and shows just how enthused and creative players are being with the ship builder inStarfield,whether through original designs, or faithful recreations of their favorite starships from other franchises. Building a Borg Cube fromStar Trek, orconstructing a Star Destroyer inStarfieldhas shown that Bethesda’s gamble with a fully modular ship builder paid off, as many players consider it to be the best feature in the entire game.
With official mod support on the way in early 2024,Starfieldmodswill allow players to elevate their ship design skills even further by adding new habitation decks, weapons, engines, and other ship parts to an already wide pool of options. Ultimately, whether they use it for gameplay or merely for creativity’s sake, it may take years beforeStarfield’s community ever gets bored from using the ship builder.
Starfieldis available now on PC and Xbox Series X/S.
