It’s been some time since Bethesda’s had something vital to say about Starfield, however that ought to be altering soon – not solely is its Shattered Space story expansion now confirmed to be gearing up for an autumn launch, a brand new free replace ought to be launching soon.
Shattered Space first reared its head final June, when it was bundled into a few Starfield particular editions for launch someday this yr. And Bethesda’s Todd Howard, chatting with Kinda Funny Games (thanks VGC) has now narrowed that down, confirming the expansion – which guarantees new story content material, new places, new gear, and extra – is coming “in the fall”.
But there’s extra Starfield stuff taking place too, with Howard additionally revealing a brand new free replace will “get announced in a few days this week” forward of the same old Steam beta – which places its arrival round a month and a half after March’s replace, that means Bethesda continues to be managing to stay to final yr’s promise of releasing new Starfield updates “roughly every six weeks”.
And as for what this newest launch will carry, Howard teased “a lot of stuff”, elaborating that the group “redid the map stuff, so we have some city map stuff.” This will hopefully handle Starfield’s much-criticised, bafflingly ineffective metropolis maps, that are at the moment introduced as a few icons on some bumpy topography – no useful avenue layouts or buildings in sight.
Players also can anticipate some “great stuff for ship building” too, though it isn’t fully clear what this is perhaps. Howard supplied no replace on Bethesda’s intriguing earlier promise of “new ways of traveling”, however hopefully we’ll hear extra on that later this yr.