Starfield's Ship Customization is Baldur's Gate 3 All Over…

Summary

Starfield offers players customization options for both their character and their spaceship, allowing them to design their dream ship and create impressive designs from popular sci-fi franchises.
Customizing the ship requires finding a space technician in a city with a spaceport and entering the advanced building menu. While it can get expensive, players can spend hours exploring this feature and building their ideal ship.
Players can build onto the ship they start with or start from scratch, attaching various modules to design the ship as they please. Leveling up their Starship Design abilities unlocks stronger components. Despite limitations, players have already shared impressive ship designs on social media.

One of the best aspects of any RPG tends to be the customization that it gives players. Baldur's Gate 3 gave them virtually limitless control to design the character of their dreams, and now Starfield has done the same thing. Bethesda has not only crafted an exciting character creator, but it has also given players the ability to build their dream ship. While the system is not perfect, it is a fantastic addition to Starfield that should be the perfect time killer for players.

Since Starfield is a sci-fi game, spaceships play a significant role throughout the universe. Players can just use the base game ships if they want. However, those who want to construct their very own ship also have that ability. This has already led to some impressive designs from franchises like Star Wars and Star Trek, and it will likely lead to even more as the years go by. This freedom has given the game a ton of life, which is all anyone could ask for from a massive RPG like it.

Starfield's Ship Building is the Perfect Time Killer

After players are given their first ship in Starfield, they are able to customize it to their liking. They must first head to a city with a spaceport and then track down that city’s space technician. Once they find them, they can enter the advanced building menu that Bethesda has included. While things can get awfully expensive extremely quickly, players will likely get lost in this feature for hours.

Players have the option to either build onto the ship they came with or delete it all to start from scratch. They can then attach all sorts of modules to their ship to design whatever they want. They must pay attention to the weight, strength, and reactor size as they build, but that does not limit them too much. The biggest thing holding back their building is their level since they must level up their Starship Design abilities to unlock stronger components. That will require a bit of grinding, yet it is all worth it in the end.

There are so many different parts that players can play with, with each changing the ship's stats. The best ships are those that can balance the core stats. However, most players may just want to build their favorite ships from popular sci-fi franchises instead, and Starfield lets them do just that. Over the past week, players have already filled social media with pictures of popular ships from franchises like Star Wars recreated in this shipbuilder. While Bethesda has not given players an easy way to share these with other players, it is awesome to see what people have been able to pull off so far.

Starfield's ships are an impressive addition to the formula, yet they are eerily reminiscent of Baldur's Gate 3's character creator. For those first couple of weeks, it seemed like everyone was sharing their characters across social media. Players were painstakingly recreating popular fantasy characters or themselves in the creator, and it led to some pretty impressive creations. It was cool to see what everyone was creating, which the Starfield community seems to be repeating.

Giving players the tools to create whatever they want seems to be a recipe for success if Baldur's Gate 3 and Starfield are anything to go by. While it likely takes a lot of resources to craft systems like this, they go a long way in giving these RPGs life. Hopefully, this serves as a lesson to other RPG developers that players want as much freedom as they can get. No matter what it is, if players can customize it, then they will run wild with it.