One of Starfield’s big problems is that its core fantasy runs contrary to the tech it’s built on. Bethesda’s space RPG is meant to evoke the majesty and scale of the cosmos. It’s about exploration, curiosity, and wonder.
And yet, it exists in an engine that necessitates a whole lot of loading screens, and so the final frontier feels like a series of small rooms. In particular, the game’s takeoff and landing sequences drew criticism for shoving in loading screens where games like No Man’s Sky had seamless transitions.
Well, no more! Sort of! A modder named 0xBobby is hard at work to rid Starfield’s takeoff sequences of the loading screen scourge. Seamless Planet Takeoffs is a mod for Starfield that makes departing its planets an at least somewhat immersive experience. Rather than cutting to a third-person view of your ship as it jets away, you remain in the cockpit, watching the planet’s atmosphere give way to the void as you ascend.
It’s not perfect, which is probably why it’s in beta. It’s not removing the loads so much as it is masking them, which means that you can still kind of identify the point at which the game shunts you from one cell to another.