Summary
- Starfield has gained immense popularity, with over 10 million players, making it Bethesda's most successful launch ever.
- Gamers are utilizing Starfield's ship-building system to create unique and massive ships, such as a spaceship inspired by the Empire State Building.
- Building such monumental spaceships can be taxing on the game's performance, and while some players experience crashes, Bethesda is actively working to improve stability.
A fan has recently built an Empire State Building-inspired ship in Starfield, crafting an absurdly huge vessel. Aside from exploring different solar systems in search of quests and resources, several gamers are devising unique ships using Starfield’s comprehensive ship-building system, and this is an excellent example of how wild these creations can get.
Starfield was one of the most eagerly awaited RPGs of 2023 for PC and Xbox gamers, and it has been very popular so far. Not only did Starfield reach over 200,000 simultaneous players on Steam for Early Access before its official release on September 6, but it’s still achieving new milestones. Recently, for instance, Starfield surpassed 10 million players, becoming the greatest launch in Bethesda’s history.
Now, one of the millions of gamers playing Starfield decided to try a bold move: to create a spaceship inspired by the Empire State Building. VinylScratch01 crafted an amazing starship that looks huge and has a striking similarity to the real-life building, obtaining over 2,700 upvotes from the Starfield subreddit. Despite not being as big as the original Empire State Building, which has 102 floors, VinylScratch01’s ship is still a juggernaut with over 30 floors and rocket propellers, as well as gigantic headlights that turn on when it flies.
In the comments of the post, some gamers asked for actual footage of the ship flying, but VinylScratch01 declined, saying that they had already “tempted fate” enough by launching such a huge spaceship once. VinylScratch01, who assembled this ship playing on PC, affirmed that the game was running at 22 FPS when they were building the ship, despite having 32GB RAM and a powerful GPU. This shows how taxing it was to create such a monumental spaceship without the game crashing, something that is happening quite often for some players, according to other Reddit users. Fortunately, Bethesda is still working to improve Starfield’s overall performance. The recent 1.7.29 Starfield update, for instance, addressed several stability issues across platforms to help avoid constant crashes.
VinylScratch01’s masterpiece is far from the only example of creative work on Starfield’s shipbuilding, though. Another player recently created a Starfield ship inspired by Groudon from Pokemon. This fan’s creation looked a lot like a mecha version of Groudon with huge claws and was one of the most unique ships Starfield players have created so far. Now, fans of the franchise can either create their own unique twists on Starfield ships or keep watching out for these amazing creations.
Starfield is available now on PC and Xbox Series X/S.