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.

  • kebabslob@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    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

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    1 year ago

    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.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      Mo2 is far from perfect but a hell of a lot easier to get working on Linux than vortex

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      1 year ago

      Yup. Playing fallout tale of two wastelands with multiple mod packs (over 100 mods) on Linux and using steamtinkerlaunch I had no issues.

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      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

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    1 year ago

    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.