Starfield now has a popular mechanic from the Fallout games that will make exploring the Settled Systems so much better. Over the course of Bethesda’s space RPG, players can recruit several companions to join them on their adventures, each with different skills and perks – even the adoring fan can give a general ego boost regardless of how badly players got beaten in battle moments prior. However, there’s always been one thing missing: the ability to acquire a pet.
SpaceDodo’s new Follower Pet – CCR mod changes this, allowing players to make any creature in the game their pet. The only difference between this and Fallout‘s pets is the fact that while Fallout has dogs, Starfield‘s creatures are all alien creatures, which arguably makes this mod a whole lot cooler.
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Fallout’s Official Pet Mechanic Often Has Conditions
Getting Dogmeat As A Companion, In Particular, Is Linked To Objectives
Fallout 4 lets players acquire dogs using dog cages, with domesticated ones increasing settlements’ happiness and defense levels and mongrels decreasing them. The player even has the option to have a pet dog called Dogmeat as one of their primary companions throughout the series.
The Fallout games in which players can have a dog companion are as follows:
- Fallout
- Fallout 2
- Fallout 3
- Fallout 4
- Fallout Shelter (and Fallout Shelter Online)
- Fallout: The Roleplaying Game
Across these games, players can ask Dogmeat to fetch supplies or use him as a warning system, as he growls when enemies are nearby. There are conditions to unlocking Dogmeat as a companion, however. In Fallout 3, this is after saving him from raiders in a scrapyard, and in Fallout 4, players simply need to “Greet the dog” when visiting the Red Rocket truck stop. Dogmeat will always protect his master unflinchingly, being a fiercely protective companion that is nice to have while exploring out in the wasteland, and to further demonstrate this loyalty, in his Fallout 3 appearance, he’s introduced seeking revenge for the death of his previous master.
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Starfield’s Follower Pet Mod Isn’t Tied To Any Questline Or Conditions
Players Can Get Their Pet With The Push Of A Button
The Follower Pet mod isn’t tied to any of Starfield‘s questlines, and simply requires pushing F8 to add a pet, and F7 to remove them. This can be done to any creature players come across, with SpaceDodo responding to a player’s question about using a Terrormorph as a pet, simply saying “If you find one, it should work“, which makes the idea of charging into battle alongside the infamous aliens rather than fighting them even more tempting.
The alien creatures available in Starfield are as follows:
- Ankylosaurus Herbivore and Geophage
- Apex Dust Devil Exorunner
- Apex Parrothawk
- Arapaima Filterer
- Ashta
- Baleen Rotifer
- Bearclaw
- Beetle Grazer and Scavenger
- Beetlecrab
- Boneback Scavenger
- Bonemane Grazer
- Brainsprout
- Brainsquid
- Brightcage
- Cagebrain
- Carnasnail Scavenger
- Centiskull Filterer, Geophage, and Grazer
- Cephalopod Scavenger
- Clickbeetle Grazer
- Cockroach
- Coralbucket Filterer
- Coralbug and Coralbug Stalker
- Coralcrab and Coralcrab Stalker
- Coralcrawler Grazer and Coralcrawler Geophage
- Coralheart Filterer, Grazer and Herbivore
- Crab Herbivore
- Crabfly Grazer
- Crocodaunt
- Cutterhead Herbivore
- Dragon
- Dragondon
- Dust Devil Exorunner
- Eggback Herbivore
- Elk Crangon
- Exowhale Filterer
- Featherfin Filterer
- Flamethorn Herbivore
- Ensifer
- Geckon Grazer
- Glider Grazer
- Glowback Scavenger
- Glowhand Grazer
- Gossamer Scavenger
- Grabber Filterer and Herbivore
- Hippodon Scavenger
- Horsamander Herbivore and Grazer
- Jacknife Geophage
- Kreet Stalker
- Kronosaurus
- Leafstrider
- Mayfly Herbivore
- Millwhale Grazer
- Mossgnath
- Mothwing Grazer
- Nautilus Scavanger
- Octomaggot Grazer
- Pearl Filterer
- Prong Wing Seabat
- Sailgator Herbivore
- Scarab
- Scoopback Geophage
- Scorpion Geophage
- Seahag
- Shardhopper Geophage
- Sharkwhale
- Shellephant Herbivore
- Shieldshell
- Sloth Grazer
- Stalking Scorpion
- Sunfish Filterer
- Sunflower Filterer
- Terrormorph
- Toadface Grazer, Stalker and Herbivore
- Tongueface Herbivore
- Trapmaw
- Triantrler
- Trihorn Goephage
- Trilobite Scavenger
- Tuskfrog Grazer
- Twintail
- Twistfin
- Vectorback
- Vuvuzelisk Grazer and Filterer
- Wobbleback Geophage
While players can now make any creature across Starfield‘s Settled Systems into a pet, unfortunately, they can’t command them to do actions like Dogmeat. Taming them and having them as followers is a fun idea. Hopefully, when Bethesda releases its official Creation Club modding tool for the game this year – as it has done with the likes of Skyrim and Fallout 4 – this can be expanded upon in the future.
Source: SpaceDodo/Nexus Mods
Starfield
Bethesda Game Studios presents Starfield – the first original IP from the studio in twenty-five-plus years. Set in the year 2310, the United Colonies and Freestar Collective are observing a shaky truce after a war set 20 years prior. The player will customize their character as a member of a space exploration team called Constellation while navigating The Settled Systems and the conflicts between the warring factions. According to Bethesda, players can explore over 100 systems and 1000 planets to find resources and build their ships, living out their own sci-fi journeys.
- Platform(s)
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PC
, Xbox Series X/S - Released
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September 6, 2023
- Developer(s)
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Bethesda Game Studios
- Publisher(s)
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Bethesda Softworks
- Genre(s)
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Open-World
, RPG
, Sci-Fi - ESRB
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