It has been some time since Bethesda’s had something important to say about Starfield, however that must be altering quickly – not solely is its Shattered House story growth now confirmed to be gearing up for an autumn launch, a brand new free replace must be launching quickly.
Shattered House first reared its head final June, when it was bundled into a few Starfield particular editions for launch someday this 12 months. And Bethesda’s Todd Howard, chatting with Kinda Humorous Video games (thanks VGC) has now narrowed that down, confirming the growth – which guarantees new story content material, new places, new gear, and extra – is coming “within the fall”.
However there’s extra Starfield stuff taking place too, with Howard additionally revealing a brand new free replace will “get introduced in a number of days this week” forward of the standard Steam beta – which places its arrival round a month and a half after March’s replace, which means Bethesda continues to be managing to stay to final 12 months’s promise of releasing new Starfield updates “roughly each six weeks”.
And as for what this newest launch will deliver, Howard teased “loads of stuff”, elaborating that the workforce “redid the map stuff, so we’ve some metropolis map stuff.” It will hopefully tackle Starfield’s much-criticised, bafflingly ineffective metropolis maps, that are at the moment introduced as a few icons on some bumpy topography – no useful road layouts or buildings in sight.
Gamers can even count on some “nice stuff for ship constructing” too, though it isn’t completely clear what this could be. Howard provided no replace on Bethesda’s intriguing earlier promise of “new methods of touring”, however hopefully we’ll hear extra on that later this 12 months.
