‘Starfield’ Announces Nvidia DLSS Support, Food-Eating Button, Future City Maps
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Bethesda has simply printed a brand new weblog publish detailing updates coming to Starfield in the short and long term, together with a ton of widespread requests, most of them on the technical aspect, initially.
The first Starfield replace for the sport shall be a small hotfix about a number of “top issues” however after that there shall be extra constant updates that may embody:
- Brightness and Contrast controls
- HDR Calibration Menu
- FOV Slider
- Nvidia DLSS Support (PC)
- 32:9 Ultrawide Monitor Support (PC)
- An eat button for meals
Those first 4 have come up time and time once more as seeming business requirements that Starfield has lacked at launch for no matter motive. And Starfield’s AMD partnership has been blamed for the sport not launching with Nvidia DLSS help, the place the sport simply doesn’t run as effectively on that half of the PC ecosystem.
The food-eating button sounds minor however it’ll flip meals from 100% pointless to maybe solely 95% pointless if it permits you to insta-heal or get bonuses on the fly, somewhat than including it to your stock so that you can dig out later. It could be good if meals was really buffed as effectively as an alternative of restoring 2-5 well being or different such nonsense quantities.
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In the long run, they announce theyd “they’d love to do” metropolis maps sooner or later, undoing the very odd choice they made to have their maps simply be icons floating in a teal blob of nothingness. Fans have already labored on interactive maps and mods to repair that.
Speaking of mods, confirming earlier statements, they are going to be creating and releasing in-game Creation mod help much like what Skyrim and Fallout 4 have had. It’s why these video games have an indefinite shelf-life, and why Skyrim has lived decade plus past its launch date, due to neighborhood help conserving it alive, enjoyable and fascinating by way of mods.
There will not be a timeline on any of this, actually only a precedence order. The small hotfix shall be first, however we aren’t positive what points shall be mounted precisely. Likely a number of the worst present bugs (if they might un-stick my Neon gang quest I might admire it). Then these visible upgrades and uh, food-eating button will come later.
Not addressed listed below are a lot bigger requests like land autos, one thing I think about would A) not merely be patched in, solely arriving with say, an growth or B) would in all probability not be added in any respect, as the best way the sport is designed might imply it’s in all probability too late for that (sure, sure, No Man’s Sky added them later).
As for Starfield, it’s being acquired as an total success for Xbox’s first social gathering ambitions, although critic scores have began to slip a bit in time. Early reviews are that Starfield might certainly be transferring Xbox {hardware} in a big method, however it’s unclear if we’ll ever hear about what number of Game Pass subs are credited to it. More to return.
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