A new Starfield mod brings significant visual improvements by overhauling interior lighting, effects, and ambient light.
The Enhanced Lights and FX, whose beta version can be downloaded for free from Nexus Mods, aims to create more atmospheric and realistic lighting by overhauling, as mentioned above, interior lighting, effects, and ambient light. This is achieved by making all interior light sources actually emit light, removing lights being cast from nowhere, increasing the use of reflection probes to improve reflections and indirect lighting, tweaking fog, redesigning light to make it more atmospheric, and more. Needless to say, the end results, even in the beta versions, are extremely good, as highlighted by the comparison screenshots below.
While modders are continuing to improve Starfield, Bethesda hasn’t been idle either. Following the release of a few updates, the development studio is gearing up for the release of the Shattered Space expansion, which promises to enhance the experience with new features and content.
Starfield is now available on PC, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S. You can learn more about the game by checking out my review.
With an engaging story, well-developed characters and lore, and a huge amount of meaningful content, Starfield is one of Bethesda’s finest games and one of the best role-playing games released in the past few years. The lack of seamless exploration and real innovation of the typical gameplay formula from the studio are noteworthy, but those willing to forego these issues will find a reactive and sprawling sci-fi universe to lose themselves in for hundreds, if not thousands, of hours.
