Starfield has a brand new patch and a brand new achievement-friendly Creation that’s serving to to fill the official DLC void, but followers are nonetheless ready for Bethesda to announce its subsequent enlargement and a PS5 launch date.
Watchtower is the newest Starfield Creation from skilled RPG modding studio Kinggath Creations, who printed Fallout 4’s acclaimed mod collection Sim Settlements. It provides a brand new, absolutely voiced story, a brand new faction, and new quests to the sci-fi RPG, and Bethesda is even selling it on its official channels. There’s even a trailer:
Watchtower, a model new achievement-friendly Creation by our pals at @KinggathCreates, is out there now in #Starfield‘s Creations menu. https://t.co/EuHtjq85X4 pic.twitter.com/3NemADzLOY
— Bethesda Recreation Studios (@BethesdaStudios) May 22, 2025
The patch, in the meantime, provides further help for Creations so Creations as much as 2GB could be uploaded, in addition to quite a few fixes for quests, automobiles, UI, and the Shattered House DLC. There’s Very Low show settings to enhance efficiency on some gadgets, too. Patch notes, per Bethesda’s website, are under.
But the wait goes on for extra significant information on Starfield, with followers hoping for an enlargement announcement and a possible PS5 launch date this June throughout Microsoft’s Xbox showcase.
Starfield launched in September 2023 as Bethesda’s first model new IP in 25 years. However it was not as properly acquired as the studio’s earlier video games in the Elder Scrolls and Fallout franchises, and the Shattered House enlargement, launched a 12 months later in September 2024, has a ‘largely detrimental’ person evaluate score on Steam.
Starfield went on to succeed in 15 million gamers, but some had questioned whether or not Bethesda would possibly stroll away from the sport to concentrate on its different franchises. In June 2024, Bethesda insisted it remained dedicated to supporting Starfield, and confirmed no less than one different story enlargement would launch following Shattered House. In an interview with YouTube channel MrMattyPlays, Bethesda Recreation Studios’ Todd Howard stated the developer was aiming to launch an annual story enlargement for “hopefully a really very long time.”
In March, hypothesis that Starfield would quickly be confirmed for launch on PS5 ramped up after followers noticed a PlayStation brand on Bethesda’s official Creations web site. The emblem was hooked up to a work-in-progress ship decals Creation for Starfield, and though the Creation was eliminated, followers had been left questioning whether or not Bethesda’s so-far PC and Xbox-only sci-fi sport would quickly make the soar to Sony’s console, as so many different Microsoft video games have.
Bethesda itself has stated it has “thrilling issues” deliberate for Starfield this 12 months, amid rising discontent from gamers a few lack of communication and updates.
Whereas it’s simple to overlook about Starfield given all the consideration on Oblivion Remastered, its gamers are hoping that Microsoft and Bethesda go large on Starfield at its Xbox Video games Showcase broadcast on June 8. May it announce the PS5 model and a brand new enlargement at the similar time?
Starfield replace Might 22, 2025 patch notes:
FEATURES
- Added Very Low show settings to enhance efficiency on some gadgets.
- Creation Equipment: Added the potential for Creators so as to add new icons to the sport.
- Creations Retailer now helps bundling Creations.
- Creation Equipment: Creations as much as 2GB in dimension can now be uploaded.
BUG FIXES
GENERAL
- Creations: Resolved a potential error when restoring load order if numerous mods had been put in and then deleted.
- Creation Equipment: Resolved a potential crash when loading a plugin with an ingredient kind.
- Addressed a potential management lock that would happen when altering views at the similar time as sitting in a pilot seat whereas landed.
- Addressed a uncommon motion lock that was potential throughout pressured dialogue scenes.
- Addressed a management lock that would happen if a automobile Creation was disabled whereas a loaded save trusted it.
- Addressed a uncommon management lock that would happen when instantly opening a menu after loading a save throughout take-off.
- Fastened a problem that would forestall exiting an arrogance digicam (PC).
- Fastened a potential crash associated to shifting or eradicating buildings at the Important Outpost in Andraphon.
- Resolved a uncommon crash that would happen when getting into the Unity.
- Addressed a problem the place quickly urgent quicksave might end in some quicksaves being eliminated.
- Basic crash and stability fixes.
- Creations UI fixes and enhancements.
GAMEPLAY
- Expertise: The Cargo Hyperlink and Robots construct limits from the Outpost Administration expertise ought to now persist after going via the Unity.
- Weapons: The House-Adept legendary impact now not has a detrimental modifier for terrestrial harm.
- Gameplay Choices: Addressed a problem with some interiors that prevented cargo entry.
- Gameplay Choices: Clarified the standing results textual content for Malnourished and Hydrated.
- Fastened a Grav leaping difficulty that would happen after being hailed in Freestar or UC house.
- Fastened a uncommon difficulty that would impression objects displayed in the Razorleaf.
- Resolved a problem with missiles that would forestall XP awards.
- Fastened a participant placement difficulty that would happen if a brand new creation was put in and a save was loaded into the UC Vigilance.
- Resolved a problem the place creatures might get moved to water in the event that they ever turned caught.
- Addressed a problem the place dropped objects might lose there stolen standing.
- At Hell’s Gate: The Crucible Blade now not damages ships in orbit when used inside a ship.
- At Hell’s Gate: The Crucible Blade audio will now play accurately after loading a save or quick travelling.
- The Bounty Board in the Tracker’s Alliance HQ now has the right audio interactions.
GRAPHICS
- Up to date resolutions to incorporate 32:9 and 32:10 resolutions in addition to extra 16:9, 16:10, and 21:9 resolutions.
- Efficiency: Resolved a problem that would trigger body charge to drop when opening the scanner on lengthy play classes.
- Celestial our bodies ought to now stay seen in the sky after getting into and exiting an inside.
QUESTS
- All That Cash Can Purchase: Fastened a uncommon difficulty that brought about the Commerce Tower elevator to be inoperable.
- In Memoriam: Addressed a problem the place finishing “At Hell’s Gate” with Sarah as the companion might forestall completion of the quest.
- Good Recipe: Shonda will now recuperate if she was downed whereas accumulating Ashta meat.
- The Starjacker: Adjusted dialogue choices that seem for characters enjoying after getting into the Unity.
- Prime of the L.I.S.T. – Resolved a management lock that would happen after promoting survey knowledge to Phil Hill.
- Trackers Alliance: Resolved a problem the place bounty scanner quests might day out.
- Trackers Alliance: Fastened a uncommon difficulty the place both killing or beautiful the goal wouldn’t full the bounty missions.
- Worlds Aside: Fastened a problem that allowed the participant to go away the planet too shortly after exiting the temple.
LOCATIONS
- Mannequins will now persist as supposed in the New Atlantis Penthouse.
- Participant ought to now be capable of modify the cabinets and cupboards in the Core Manor in Akila Metropolis.
- Resolved a problem that would forestall scanning some flora.
- At Hell’s Gate: The Plasma Analysis Facility now exhibits up on the floor map.
- Fastened a visual opening in the Abandoned Biotics Lab.
- Vent Hazards at the moment are displaying accurately on Jemison.
UI
- Ship Builder: Resolved a problem with the ship improve menu when just one module is out there for improve.
- Ship Builder: Addressed a variety difficulty when utilizing massive fonts.
- Ship Ornament: Up to date the names of Empty ship modules.
- All buttons ought to now work in the Automobile Builder menu with massive fonts enabled.
- Localization: Textual content for the Dehydrated debuff is now not cutoff in Spanish and Polish when massive fonts is enabled.
- Localization: The bounty boards in the Tracker’s Alliance HQ at the moment are localized constantly.
- Localization: Strings for each Hydrated and Dehydrated standing results relating to sneak assaults are absolutely localized.
VEHICLE
- A keyboard binding is now accessible for the enhance button. (PC)
- A marker for the automobile will now present up on the participant’s compass.
- Resolved a digicam difficulty that would happen for gamers with maxed out Surveying talent.
- Improved logic for exiting the automobile when partially obstructed.
- The automobile will now deploy when touchdown at areas aside from spaceports or touchdown pads.
- Addressed a visual artifact with the Rev-8 when boosting in foggy circumstances.
Shattered House
- Va’ruun outpost modules at the moment are accessible to gamers after getting into the Unity.
- Expertise: Killing enemies inside gravity bubbles on Dazra will now rely in direction of the Gymnastics talent.
- Addressed a problem with the buttons on the raise on the Mourning stage in Dazra.
- Weapons: The Penumbra now offers bonus headshot harm.
- Efficiency: Addressed a problem that would trigger slight stutters in the Nicely and exterior Dazra.
- The Va’Ruun Schimaz’s blade is now not pixelated on the Information Menu.
- Fastened a lens flare flicker with the Citadel on Dazra.
- Zealous Overreach: Adjusted Mirek’s dialogue choices to account for characters which were via the Unity.
- Zealous Overreach: Resolved difficulty that would happen if the participant cleared Shadow Station Epsilon previous to talking to Ekris.
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