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Todd Howard says Starfield’s Shattered Space DLC arrives “in the fall”, update fixing stupid map “really soon"A released game may eventually be good
A released game may eventually be good
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda
Wow, rememberStarfield? I do, just about, although any interest in it feels like a distant dream now. But not to Todd Howard! The Bethesboss had a chat withKinda Funnyand confirmed that Shattered Space, the first big DLC for the brave little spaceRPGthat could, has a release window of “in the fall”. Shattered Space adds new locations and stories and gear, and is the sort of DLC that was announced before the game came out, and you got it bundled with some of the super mega hyper awesome pre-order editions (you can still get it bundled with theStarfieldPremium Edition if you want to spend an extra 30 quid).Before that, though, Howard says we should expect (viaVGCvia the video) “a big update that’s coming really soon”, and that “we redid the map stuff, so we have some city map stuff.” This is the literalfirst thing I complained aboutwhen I reviewed Starfield. Vindication! This is one of a number of changes teased on Starfield’s Reddit communityat the end of last year.Starfield is in some ways a ship being built as it flies. Bethesda announced that it would getupdates every six weeksfrom this February (a climb down from the early approach of telling individual Steam reviewers that they were justplaying the game wrong). The most recent updatewent into betaat the start of the month, and included some small quality of life patches and the ability to make weird faces in photo mode.Could Starfield pull off aNo Man’s Sky? Dunno. Maybe. I think mod interest could be a biggie - despite one prominent modder giving up on a multiplayer mod due toStarfield being too boring, the entire modding sceneisn’t dead, and official mod support isn’t out yet. So, perhaps there’s life in the old spaceship yet. The map update along could honestly be a game changer for me. Literally.
Wow, rememberStarfield? I do, just about, although any interest in it feels like a distant dream now. But not to Todd Howard! The Bethesboss had a chat withKinda Funnyand confirmed that Shattered Space, the first big DLC for the brave little spaceRPGthat could, has a release window of “in the fall”. Shattered Space adds new locations and stories and gear, and is the sort of DLC that was announced before the game came out, and you got it bundled with some of the super mega hyper awesome pre-order editions (you can still get it bundled with theStarfieldPremium Edition if you want to spend an extra 30 quid).Before that, though, Howard says we should expect (viaVGCvia the video) “a big update that’s coming really soon”, and that “we redid the map stuff, so we have some city map stuff.” This is the literalfirst thing I complained aboutwhen I reviewed Starfield. Vindication! This is one of a number of changes teased on Starfield’s Reddit communityat the end of last year.Starfield is in some ways a ship being built as it flies. Bethesda announced that it would getupdates every six weeksfrom this February (a climb down from the early approach of telling individual Steam reviewers that they were justplaying the game wrong). The most recent updatewent into betaat the start of the month, and included some small quality of life patches and the ability to make weird faces in photo mode.Could Starfield pull off aNo Man’s Sky? Dunno. Maybe. I think mod interest could be a biggie - despite one prominent modder giving up on a multiplayer mod due toStarfield being too boring, the entire modding sceneisn’t dead, and official mod support isn’t out yet. So, perhaps there’s life in the old spaceship yet. The map update along could honestly be a game changer for me. Literally.
Wow, rememberStarfield? I do, just about, although any interest in it feels like a distant dream now. But not to Todd Howard! The Bethesboss had a chat withKinda Funnyand confirmed that Shattered Space, the first big DLC for the brave little spaceRPGthat could, has a release window of “in the fall”. Shattered Space adds new locations and stories and gear, and is the sort of DLC that was announced before the game came out, and you got it bundled with some of the super mega hyper awesome pre-order editions (you can still get it bundled with theStarfieldPremium Edition if you want to spend an extra 30 quid).
Before that, though, Howard says we should expect (viaVGCvia the video) “a big update that’s coming really soon”, and that “we redid the map stuff, so we have some city map stuff.” This is the literalfirst thing I complained aboutwhen I reviewed Starfield. Vindication! This is one of a number of changes teased on Starfield’s Reddit communityat the end of last year.
Starfield is in some ways a ship being built as it flies. Bethesda announced that it would getupdates every six weeksfrom this February (a climb down from the early approach of telling individual Steam reviewers that they were justplaying the game wrong). The most recent updatewent into betaat the start of the month, and included some small quality of life patches and the ability to make weird faces in photo mode.
Could Starfield pull off aNo Man’s Sky? Dunno. Maybe. I think mod interest could be a biggie - despite one prominent modder giving up on a multiplayer mod due toStarfield being too boring, the entire modding sceneisn’t dead, and official mod support isn’t out yet. So, perhaps there’s life in the old spaceship yet. The map update along could honestly be a game changer for me. Literally.
