Bethesda has damaged its silence on the way forward for Starfield, insisting it’s nonetheless working on updates and can share particulars on the “thrilling issues” it has deliberate in the coming months.
Starfield gamers have for a while now expressed their dissatisfaction at the degree of communication popping out of Bethesda on the way forward for the sport, with its no-show at June’s Xbox Video games Showcase thought of the last straw for some.
The Starfield group had hoped Bethesda would announce one thing to do with the sport at its present, however whereas The Elder Scrolls On-line and Fallout 76 each acquired their second in the highlight, Starfield skipped proceedings completely. No DLC, no enlargement, no PlayStation 5 launch… nothing.
Now, forward of Gamescom in August, Bethesda has piped up with a statement on Steam that’s as temporary as it’s imprecise, however at the very least addresses Starfield’s future and guarantees extra content material is in the works.
“Wanting forward, we’re persevering with work on future updates and can share extra about the thrilling issues we’ve got deliberate for Starfield in the coming months,” Bethesda mentioned in a publish accompanying Starfield Replace 1.15.222, which is in beta kind on Steam. Patch notes are beneath.
Starfield gamers are hoping this implies the promised second Starfield enlargement remains to be coming, and that Starfield might observe the likes of Forza Horizon 5 and make the soar to PlayStation 5.
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Starfield launched in September 2023 as Bethesda’s first model new IP in 25 years, but it surely was not as properly obtained as the studio’s earlier video games in the Fallout and The Elder Scrolls franchises, and the Shattered Area enlargement, launched a yr later in September 2024, has a ‘largely adverse’ person overview ranking on Steam.
Starfield went on to attain 15 million gamers, however the query of whether or not Bethesda may stroll away from the sport to focus on its different franchises has been a working theme since launch. In June 2024, Bethesda insisted it remained dedicated to supporting Starfield, and confirmed at the very least one different story enlargement would launch following Shattered Area. And in an interview with YouTube channel MrMattyPlays, Bethesda Recreation Studios’ Todd Howard mentioned the developer was aiming to launch an annual story enlargement for “hopefully a really very long time.”
Bethesda was significantly affected by Microsoft’s newest spherical of layoffs, with cuts to its London workplace and ZeniMax On-line Studios. Its unannounced MMORPG was canceled, and its veteran studio head stepped down.
Starfield Replace 1.15.222 patch notes:
Common
- Minor enhancements to format and show in Creations menus.
- Addressed a difficulty that might trigger that Excessive Temperature gear to seem incorrectly.
- Minor enhancements to sorting in the Missions Menu.
- Common crash and stability fixes.
This replace is presently in Steam Beta. If you need to decide in to the Starfield Beta replace, please observe these directions:
- Open your Steam Library and navigate to Starfield
- Proper click on on “Starfield” and choose “Properties”
- In the new properties pop-up window, choose “Betas”
- In the beta drop down to decide into, choose “[beta]”
- Look ahead to app to obtain new construct and launch
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