Starfield
Bethesda
Since its launch in September 2023, Bethesda has not precisely made a complete lot of great updates to Starfield, however they promised that will begin to change in 2024 with bigger and extra frequent patches.
Now, they’re placing one of their new patches right into a Steam beta with “100 fixes and improvements.” Then, it is going to launch in full by the tip of the month.
There’s a number of boring stuff like fixing bugs in numerous quests which once more, some folks have been encountering since early September at this level. But the factor to focus on is that Bethesda says that this replace brings “brings stability improvements and numerous graphic improvements ranging from additional widescreen support to improved textures, lighting, and shadows.” The instance they present for this half is 2 completely different characters within the creator mode:
Starfield
Bethesda
Then, there are further updates for “sun disk geometry, planet ring shadows.” And they’ve examples for that as properly:
Bethesda
Starfield
I’m…slightly perplexed about each of those, particularly with the examples being present. The variations between the faces, a minimum of from these instance images, seem really quite minimal, and the feel enhancements have actually not translated into the chunky hair and beards. Additionally, many of the recreation’s faces already regarded fairly okay within the character creator itself, whereas issues acquired much more questionable out within the open world with many, many extra completely different sorts of lighting, so I’d need to see that in motion.
Starfield
Bethesda
So, this patch shall be 4 months after launch, however it feels prefer it’s going to be principally bug fixes after which these considerably minor graphical enhancements. The recreation has had near no quality-of-life upgrades since launch, probably the most main being the flexibility to eat meals proper off a counter as an alternative of placing it in your stock.
Hopefully Bethesda’s promise of 2024 patches convey extra enhancements. We’ve been promised new technique of traversal, which individuals suppose may very well be something from land autos to the erasure of so many loading screens, however we’ll need to see. For now, in two weeks you’ll be able to see how this patch makes issues look. Or you’ll be able to check it within the public Steam Beta on January 17.
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