Starfield’s lately introduced Might Replace–an huge replace filled with quality-of-life improvements–is set to go dwell on Might 15, however it’s removed from the one factor Starfield followers must stay up for. In a YouTube video highlighting the brand new replace, Bethesda additionally revealed that one other long-awaited characteristic is lastly within the works: a automobile that may permit gamers to drive throughout the floor of the sport’s 1,000+ planets.
“The group is engaged on our first land automobile, so you possibly can drive round on planets,” lead inventive producer Tim Lamb revealed close to the top of the video. “Clearly, we’re [also] engaged on extra quests and the huge Shattered House enlargement.”
Starfield launched in September 2023 with no autos (or alien mounts) out there for gamers to utilize when traversing the sport’s many planets. On the time, sport director Todd Howard indicated that Enhance Packs–jetpack-like units that may be discovered all through the game–should be sufficient to get gamers the place they wish to go.
“When you do autos, it does change the gameplay, so by focusing when you land in your ship, you’re on foot, it lets us really–for the players–make it an expertise the place we all know how briskly they’re seeing issues,” Howard told Forbes shortly after the sport’s launch.
For gamers, nonetheless, it appears Enhance Packs simply aren’t chopping it, and the sport’s official subreddit is filled with requests for a rover or mount to make planet traversal much less onerous.
Though Bethesda’s Might Replace video did affirm that autos are in development–and even confirmed a brief clip of a developer driving one around–Lamb gave no additional particulars relating to the autos themselves, or once they may seem within the sport. Vehicles is not going to be included within the Might Replace, so it is doable they could arrive alongside the Shattered House enlargement when it launches this fall.