Keep in mind Starfield? Launched to enormous fanfare in 2023, Bethesda’s large sci-fi hope landed to a combined reception from gamers — who’ve since gone on to complain concerning the sport’s disappointing first enlargement and lack of considerable ongoing help.
Nevertheless, one vivid spot on the horizon seems to be indicators of Bethesda lastly including the highly-requested capability to journey in your spaceship from one planet to one other — fairly than what occurs now, as you load up a loading display screen to enter orbit, and from there load up one other loading display screen to get to the place you are going.
Fragments of code uncovered by Starfield followers now counsel Bethesda has a extra streamlined expertise within the works, although doubtlessly nonetheless with some caveats. When you might find a way to journey between planets inside the identical system, followers say it appears such as you will not find a way to fly all the best way between programs. Oh, and also you additionally will not find a way to fly instantly from a planet’s floor into orbit, like No Man’s Sky. Oh, properly.
References to the brand new providing, referred to within the sport’s code as “Cruise Mode,” had been detected by gamers this week and shared on reddit, although Bethesda has reportedly now issued one other small patch to scrub them from view.
After one other no-show at June’s Xbox Video games Showcase, it stays to be seen when Bethesda will get round to mentioning the sport once more. Final month, Bethesda mentioned it had “thrilling issues” coming to the sport quickly — presumably referring to this. Maybe we’ll hear extra in a few weeks round Gamescom, forward of the sport’s two-year anniversary?
Earlier this month, it was reported that Starfield’s second enlargement and much-anticipated PlayStation 5 port will now arrive in 2026, following the poor reception to 2024 add-on Shattered Area. Bethesda boss Todd Howard had previously talked of expansions arriving annually, however maybe Bethesda sees the addition of some type of spaceflight as one thing to hold gamers occupied till then.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s Information Editor. You can attain Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or discover him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social