After all, every map, though random in design, draws from the same resources. However, once you’ve played a procedurally generated game enough times, it does start to feel a little familiar. One of the main draws of procedurally generated games like Starsector is their immense replayability since no two maps are exactly the same. You simply need to press the V button on the campaign menu to bring up a list of currently available updates. In brief, it notifies you whenever your game, or any mods that you’re using, have updates available.
This is what makes the Version Checker mod so useful. It can be a bit much to manage all these updates, especially given how the game isn’t yet available through Steam, or some other platform that auto-manages updates. On top of this, the mods themselves also receive frequent updates, often to adapt to the game’s ongoing evolution. What this means, of course, is that frequent updates are being released. Such is the case with Starsector, which is still in the alpha stage. It’s increasingly common, nowadays, for games to be widely available while still in development. However, if you’d prefer to keep doing the saving yourself, you can also choose to simply let to mod notify you when you haven’t saved in a while. The Autosave mod, as the name implies, applies an autosave feature to the game. It’s not something you might notice at first, but it can prove tremendously annoying if you realize, after a battle that hasn’t gone your way, that you haven’t saved in a while. If anything about Starsector can be called controversial, it’s the fact that, as of yet, it doesn’t have an autosave feature. Moreover, to help you get started on tweaking the game, the download also includes instructions for adding custom commands. It can be brought up through a simple Ctrl+backspace command. Console CommandsĪnother useful one for users who have a mind to make their own mods, the Console Command mod, obviously, adds a developer’s console to Starsector.
You’ll want to install this one first before starting on anything else. It’s the foundation mod – the one that’s required for many other mods.Īnd if you have a mind for creating your own mods, this is generally agreed to be the easiest mod to do it through. Any widely-modded game has at least one mod like LazyLib.