Bethesda Sport Studios has teased what gamers can count on in Starfield’s subsequent replace, with the upcoming patch emphasizing quality-of-life enhancements and bug fixes.
In a thread on X/Twitter, Bethesda Sport Studios made a thread highlighting a number of the modifications coming to Starfield. The replace will likely be obtainable on March 6 by way of the Steam Beta earlier than a full launch at a later date.
Essentially the most notable repair will address a bug within the “Sabotage” quest for the Ryujin Industries. The bug in query prompted an NPC required to full the search to not spawn within the location. Bethesda beforehand tried to deal with this bug in replace 1.8.86, launched final November, however some quickly pointed out that the NPC failed to spawn after putting in the patch.
We additionally tracked down the elusive David Barron, who had mysteriously been unavailable on the SSNN for a lot of gamers in “Sabotage.”
Different fixes embody a difficulty inflicting the participant’s head to flip left whereas sprinting and a few points stopping Starborn Temples from showing… pic.twitter.com/3vBsL3RCAv
— Bethesda Sport Studios (@BethesdaStudios) March 1, 2024
Different patch highlights embody:
- Including facial expressions in photograph mode;
- Enhancements to the scanner that can permit you to use it to monitor the in-game world when harvesting assets; and
- A top quality-of-life enchancment that makes missions energetic whenever you set course on an inactive mission.
The newest replace comes over a week after the February patch was launched, the place it launched a variety of modifications to Bethesda’s sci-fi motion RPG, most notably AMD’s FSR 3 and Intel’s XeSS supersampling tech assist.
The assist for Starfield is a part of Bethesda’s plan to have “a regular stream of updates about each six weeks” to deal with numerous points in Starfield. Bethesda beforehand teased further fixes and enhancements, together with including metropolis maps and “new methods” of traversing.
In our assessment of Starfield, which we awarded a 7 out of 10, we mentioned: “Starfield has a lot of forces working towards it, however finally, the attract of its expansive roleplaying quests and respectable fight make its gravitational pull troublesome to resist.”
Taylor is a Reporter at IGN. You possibly can observe her on Twitter @TayNixster.