Bethesda has announced a new patch coming to Starfield on March 6th. Focused on quality of life (QoL) improvements and bug-fixes, they detailed what’s coming in a series of tweets.
https://xboxera.com/2023/08/31/review-starfield
The list of changes in the tweet thread are:
- We’re adding expressions to photo mode! Now you can make your character and your companions match the mood of your shot – and Vasco is getting some new poses, too.
- We’re improving the scanner so you can continue to use it to monitor the world around you while harvesting resources or opening doors.
- Ready for your next mission? Setting course on an inactive mission will now make it active! 🌌
- We also tracked down the elusive David Barron, who had mysteriously been unavailable at the SSNN for many players in “Sabotage.”
- Other fixes include an issue causing the player’s head to turn left while sprinting and some issues preventing Starborn Temples from appearing correctly, among many others.
Typically patches hit the beta branch for the game’s Steam version for a few weeks before being made available on the Windows Store and Xbox versions of the title.
Back at launch we gave Starfield a 9.7
“The Space Game” is how Todd Howard described Starfield. Bethesda Game Studio is one of the most successful developers in the industry. The Elder Scrolls and revamped Fallout series are beloved for their dedication to simulation. Starfield takes those core tenets, modernizes them, and expands the scope to span a galaxy. One filled with over a thousand planets, some of the best lighting I’ve ever seen, and a main storyline that is up there as one of my favorites of all time.
XboxEra’s Starfield Review
The Xbox store listing for Starfield describes it as:
Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4. In this next-generation role-playing game set amongst the stars, create any character you want and explore with unparalleled freedom as you embark on an epic journey to answer humanity’s greatest mystery. The year is 2330. Humanity has ventured beyond our solar system, settling new planets, and living as a spacefaring people. From humble beginnings as a space miner, you will join Constellation – the last group of space explorers seeking rare artifacts throughout the galaxy – and navigate the vast expanse of the Settled Systems in Bethesda Game Studios’ biggest and most ambitious game.
How do these quality-of-life changes sound to you? Sound off in the comment below on what you think and let us know what you hope to see added to the game.
The scanner improvement is definitely something I have been wanting.
Waiting on the ability to customize the MASS limit, Vendor Credits, City Maps and a few other things. Hoping by the time the Shattered Space expansion releases, this stuff will be patched into the game.
Customizing mass limit and vendor credits sound like things you’ll probably need a mod for
I hope it fixes the companions changing suits from time to time. Seeing your companion roaming around you in casual outfit on a planet without atmosphere is immersion breaking to me. It annoys me more than it should.
So, likely later in March for Xbox.
Mods will sort all that out which will hopefully be coming the next next couple of months, well before the DLC drops
I think BGS themselves said it was in the works as a base game setting for 2024.
Jesse nails it. Bethesda Game Studios said that they will allow customization for mass limit and vendor credit while also adding city maps and allowing new ways to travel (just want an ATV and I’ll be happy) at the end of 2023. This is why I decided against restarting Starfield. Figured that im better off waiting and having a better game experience.
If they can allow modders to take an empty planet and make it a fully dressed adventure, then many scenarios could arise and the game will improve.
Oh they did? Oh well cool then, the less modders need to do and is in the base game the better
Yeah I’m waiting myself, put in like 40 hours and enjoyed it but felt like id enjoy it much more by the time QoL stuff happened and mods started dropping