Starfield: Bethesda Is Working On ‘New Methods Of Touring’

In the event you had been hoping for brand spanking new methods to bounce about Bethesda’s jumbo-sized galaxy in area RPG Starfield, you is likely to be in luck. In a current Reddit response on Reddit t, the developer seems to have teased an upcoming function replace that can add “new methods of touring” and that followers ought to count on common updates shifting ahead.

Although Starfield impresses with its galactic scale, the shortage of extra numerous methods to traverse—whether or not that’s inside star methods or on its 1000 planets’ surfaces—has remained a sore spot for gamers of the open-world RPG. Bethesda has gone on the document saying the shortage of floor automobiles is to encourage a slower paced exploration sport loop. However a current Reddit response to participant suggestions in regards to the newest patch suggests there could also be some new methods of getting round coming to Starfield. Bethesda’s response doesn’t point out what “new methods of touring” means, nevertheless it’s sparked the creativeness of followers hoping for the inclusion of automobiles or improved technique of traversing star methods.

Learn Extra: Starfield: The Kotaku Evaluate
Purchase Starfield: Amazon | Finest Purchase | GameStop

Starfield’s most up-to-date replace addressed a number of sore spots: Particularly the bug that sees asteroids getting caught to ships (although it doesn’t repair the problem the place a whole-ass metropolis will get caught), a repair to an outpost constructing bug, and a decision to save lots of points cropping up when gamers keep on the identical save file for too lengthy with out triggering the New Recreation Plus perform. Followers of the sport had been looking forward to extra updates, nonetheless. In responding to this, Bethesda stated on Reddit:

We’ve been onerous at work on lots of the points you’ve posted, and count on an replace early subsequent 12 months that can embody a lot of “in-progress” quest fixes in addition to FSR3 and XeSS. Although we fastened a number of quest points from occurring, in-progress quest fixes are a lot tougher to repair and we’ve constructed a brand new system to right these with out you having to roll again your save.

We’re additionally onerous at work on lots of the new options you requested for, from metropolis maps, to mod help, to all new methods of touring (keep tuned!).

Kotaku has reached out to Bethesda for remark.

Bethesda goals for updates ‘roughly each six weeks’

The developer response on Reddit additionally signifies that followers ought to count on main updates to come back each six weeks:

[Updates] might be rolling out with an everyday cadence of fixes and updates we count on to have roughly each six weeks. If one thing might be executed in a smaller hotfix in between (just like the asteroid), and we really feel it’s secure, we’ll get a type of out as properly. Protected is the important thing right here. We do take lots of time to check even the smallest change in a sport this huge and dynamic.

Although Starfield is a single-player sport, Bethesda and Xbox have been clear that they need to see it take pleasure in the identical longevity and participant retention as Skyrim.

Learn Extra: Phil Spencer Desires You To Play Starfield For A Decade

Todd Howard, Starfield’s artistic director, has said that the sport was “deliberately made to be performed for a very long time,” and has typically used live-service adjoining language to explain future progress.

What precisely Starfield’s future is stays unsure, nevertheless it’s clear that what shipped on September 6, 2023 was solely the beginning of Bethesda’s ambitions with its area RPG.