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After years of Starfield<\/a> players lusting after the idea of actually being able to do something with mechs in the game aside from staring at the broken ones that dot a lot of the ruins in the Settled Systems, a new mod will finally let you build some of your own. It does far more than that though, seeking to totally overhaul the game’s entire outpost system.<\/p>\n

Yup, just as we’re all up to our knees in Fallout TV Show<\/a> hype and busy checking out the array of other cool stuff<\/a> that’s happening in that Bethesda franchise’s community this month, a modder has quietly decided to put out what’s certainly the most ambitious mod for the game I’ve seen this year. You just never know what people are cooking, I guess.<\/p>\n

The mod in question (thanks, IGN<\/a>), is TankGirl444’s ‘TGs Galactic Colonies Expanse<\/a>‘. What does it do? Well, I’ll let them explain.<\/p>\n

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After years of Starfield players lusting after the idea of actually being able to do something with mechs in the game aside from staring at the broken ones that dot a lot of the ruins in the Settled Systems, a new mod will finally let you build some of your own. It does far more than that though, seeking to totally overhaul the game’s entire outpost system. Yup, just as we’re all up to our knees in Fallout TV Show hype and busy checking out the array of other cool stuff that’s happening in that Bethesda franchise’s community this month, a modder has quietly decided to put out what’s certainly the most ambitious mod for the game I’ve seen this year. You just never know…<\/p>\n

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