Starfield’s greatest replace since launch is lastly right here, bringing a great deal of new quality-of-life options to the sport, from new visible efficiency settings to the flexibility to tweak fight problem and ship cargo area.
First introduced earlier this month, Starfield’s May Update (as Bethesda calls it) consists of new methods for gamers to tweak the sport to their liking. Gamers who’re fighting interstellar dogfights however discovering floor fight too simple can now tweak these fight problem settings individually, making area fight simpler and floor fight tougher, or vice versa. Moreover, gamers who discover the “Very Arduous” problem stage too simple and are hungry for a extra intense fight expertise can check out the brand new “Excessive” problem mode as a substitute, which guarantees a high-octane problem.
The May Update additionally consists of new performance options for gamers who’re exploring the celebs through an Xbox Sequence X. Sequence X can now select between 30fps 40fps, 60fps, or an uncapped body charge, offered they’ve a Variable Refresh Fee (VRR) show operating 120hz. However all shouldn’t be misplaced for these with no VRR display–players with lower-quality displayers will nonetheless have the ability to choose both 30fps or 60fps, and all Sequence X gamers now have entry to a setting that enables them to prioritize visible efficiency over gameplay efficiency, and vice versa. A lot of bugs–especially these affecting the sport’s many quests–have additionally been addressed through the brand new replace.
Although the May Update does not embody automobiles for faster groundside journey, Bethesda confirmed earlier this month that floor automobiles are certainly within the works, however the developer declined to share info relating to when these automobiles will develop into out there to gamers. It is potential the brand new floor automobiles will launch across the identical time as Starfield’s upcoming Shattered Area growth, which is ready to reach someday this fall.
For a more in-depth take a look at all the things Starfield’s huge May Update has to supply, take a look at the total patch notes beneath.
PATCH NOTES
BUG FIXES
GENERAL
- Basic Stability and Efficiency enhancements.
- Basic enhancements for Character fleeing, avoidance and pathfinding.
- Fastened numerous points with object placement.
GAMEPLAY
- Fastened a difficulty that would trigger a ship’s most protect capability to seem decreased after loading a save with sure assigned crew.
- Fastened a difficulty the place invisibility may persist on a companion’s weapon after invisibility impact ended.
- Scanning flora/fauna XP is now additionally awarded through harvesting/killing.
- Resolved a difficulty with unintended harvest objects showing in flora from blended biomes.
- Addressed a difficulty that prevented repeated docking with a beforehand commandeered ship.
- Fastened a difficulty with Class C flight habits after getting into focusing on mode whereas boosting.
- Addressed a difficulty that would happen when trying to dock with a ship because it grav jumps away.
- Fastened a ship scanner situation that would sometimes show incorrect hostility or crew depend.
- Fastened a difficulty the place docked ships would seem to overlap after loading a save whereas boarding.
- Shocked Characters ought to not show the choice to speak to them.
- Fastened a difficulty that would trigger attire to not show as meant on mannequins.
- Helmets positioned on Mannequins ought to not cull the neck and torso part.
- Addressed a difficulty that would trigger weapons to duplicate when looting and enemy.
- Addressed a uncommon situation that would trigger characters to not exit dialogue when attacked.
- Fastened a difficulty that would trigger the dialogue digicam to rapidly shift focus when exiting conversations.
- Neon and Ryujin safety ought to be extra diligent on arresting the participant for felony habits.
- An Autosave ought to now be created when quick travelling to the participant ship if Save on Journey is enabled.
- Fastened a difficulty with sandstorm hazards not working as meant beneath sure circumstances.
- Fastened a difficulty with climate altering incorrectly when getting into a ship.
- Addressed a difficulty associated to utilizing the Starborn Energy ‘Inside Demon’ on sure Robotic fashions.
- Resolved a number of points associated to loading a save after utilizing ‘Phased Time’ energy.
- Fastened a difficulty with lip-sync whereas ‘Phased Time’ was lively.
- Fastened a uncommon situation that would trigger legendary Starborn weapons to lose their particular results.
- Resolved a difficulty that would forestall storing objects in containers aboard the Razorleaf.
- Addressed a difficulty that would trigger the participant to seem as in the event that they had been in zero gravity after finishing a temple.
- Fastened a difficulty with Rifle Certification ability that would forestall quicker reloading profit.
- Resolved situation with sure weapons not with the ability to hearth instantly after they had been aimed.
- Resolved and situation that would trigger melee assaults to happen with out animation.
- Fastened a visible situation with the Laser sight emitted from an enemy Magshear.
- Resolved a weapon visibility situation that would happen when opening the hand scanner with ‘Toggle Iron Sight’ setting enabled.
- Fastened a weapon visibility situation that would happen when switching between weapons of various varieties.
- Addressed a difficulty with how the Subtitles from the ECS Fixed had been displayed.
- Addressed a difficulty with gaps showing on the character when previewing helmets within the Switch Menu.
- Resolved and situation that would trigger clothes to be seen by the spacesuit after aiming with a scope.
- Addressed and situation that would trigger enemies to obtain unintended power when killed.
- Fastened a difficulty that would happen when killing a seated character.
- Loading save ought to retain digicam settings.
- Addressed a difficulty that would trigger quests to have a for much longer cooldown than meant.
- Resolved a difficulty the place UC ships may nonetheless ship pleasant hails to a member of the Crimson Fleet.
- Fastened areas of Moara’s ship the place participant may develop into caught.
- Fastened a difficulty that would trigger the desk contained in the Ship Companies constructing in Akila to vanish.
- Fastened a difficulty that will forestall random ship encounters from touchdown on planets in some conditions.
- Fastened a difficulty with the flip counter on the persuasion minigame when coping with the Star Parcel Freighter.
- Ship Service Technicians ought to now return to their regular location if that they had beforehand wandered away.
- Gamers who discover their approach into Benjamin Bayu’s penthouse ought to now have the ability to exit correctly.
GRAPHICS
- Exterior ship lights ought to now seem as meant in Photomode and through journey sequences.
- Fastened numerous shadow points (flickering and precision).
- Fastened a difficulty that would trigger the galaxy map to zoom out to an incorrect extent. (PC).
- Fastened a uncommon situation that would trigger the ocean to not mix easily with the shore.
- Fastened a difficulty that would trigger the display screen to be stretched on 16:10 and 32:10 screens with FSR3 within the character editor (PC).
- Improved the look of depth of area in particular instances.
- Fastened refined flickering that would happen on some on highlighted components within the ship editor.
- Improved the look of lighting and shadow beneath bushes.
- Improved wind course consistency.
- Fastened a difficulty inflicting the glow of stars to be barely seen by planets.
- Fastened a number of visible artifacts with some VFX.
- Improved the look of rain ripples on water.
- Fastened a difficulty that would trigger lacking fog to happen whereas touchdown in Neon.
- Improved flickering artifacts typically current with upscaling strategies DLSS, FSR, XeSS (PC).
- Fastened a number of flickering and ghosting points for FSR3 (PC).
- Fastened a difficulty that would trigger the sport UI to vanish after altering the Borderless Full Display possibility when utilizing FSR3 (PC).
- Fastened a difficulty that would sometimes trigger artifacts throughout digicam transitions.
- Fastened a uncommon situation that would trigger lacking object highlights within the hand scanner.
- Fastened a uncommon situation that would trigger seen rain results inside a spaceship.
- Fastened a difficulty that would trigger water to show white in New Atlantis when utilizing a particle beam.
- Adjusting a setting possibility that learn as “Off” to now learn as “Low High quality” for movement blur.
- Adjusted the default worth for Ship Third Particular person FOV.
- Fastened a difficulty that would trigger weapons on racks or in containers to vanish or change upon re-entering the participant’s ship.
OUTPOSTS
- Fastened a difficulty that would trigger robots to seem unassigned after deleting the Outpost Crew Station.
- Addressed a difficulty with Cargo Hyperlink components not updating orientation after shifting a construction at an Outpost.
- Eliminated pink define that would typically stay on objects after they had been repaired at an outpost.
- Fastened a difficulty the place altering greenhouse flora varieties in Outposts may disconnect the water enter.
- Resolved a difficulty with environmental hazards persisting inside outpost buildings inbuilt hazard areas.
- Fastened a difficulty the place greenhouse crops typically didn’t transfer accurately when the greenhouse was relocated.
- Fastened points the place stairs may typically be deleted when deleting objects positioned on them at an outpost.
- Addressed a difficulty that allowed the participant to succeed in unintended areas by stacking furnishings in Outposts.
- Resolved a difficulty with storage container auto foundations showing the place stackable containers exist already in Outposts.
- Fastened a difficulty with Outpost wires not shifting accurately when a wired construction was moved.
- Addressed a difficulty that would trigger habitat modules to drift when supporting buildings had been eliminated.
- Fastened a difficulty that would unintentionally have an effect on the ambient audio of Outpost objects.
- Fastened a difficulty with inner-system cargo ships not unloading assets to capability.
QUESTS
- Again to the Grind: Fastened a difficulty that would trigger the digicam to unintentionally return to first particular person when exiting the interview seat with Imogene.
- Breaking the Financial institution: Fastened a difficulty the place unselected Dialogue choices would incorrectly grey out when speaking to Chief Purser Murata.
- Breach of Contract: Resolved the difficulty the place Dr. Keala might not have been current on the meant location.
- Crew Encounter: Resolved a difficulty that would trigger Betty Howser to not seem in Jake’s bar to be employed.
- Echoes of the Previous: Fastened a uncommon situation that would trigger Delgado to get caught whereas traversing the canyon.
- Excessive Worth to Pay: Fastened a difficulty the place development may halt if a United Colonies character was hit in the course of the escape.
- Hostile Intelligence: Resolved the difficulty that would trigger the Steam Tunnels to develop into inaccessible if the mission space was left for a very long time.
- Into the Unknown: Addressed a difficulty that would trigger Vladimir to not give the Participant Temple areas.
- Into the Unknown: Fastened a uncommon situation the place the temple location wouldn’t populate when receiving the “Go to” goal.
- Legacy’s Finish: Fastened a difficulty that would trigger Huan Daiyu to not be positioned as meant on the finish of the mission.
- Legacy’s Finish: Fastened in situation that would trigger the Crimson Fleet Prisoners to have incorrect idle traces whereas standing within the Brig of the Vigilance.
- Legacy’s Finish: Resolved a difficulty with returning to the Key if a freed prisoner was killed.
- Unfastened Ends: Addressed a difficulty that would trigger the scene between Neshar and Neon Safety to not happen as meant.
- No Sudden Strikes: Fastened a uncommon situation that would trigger Petrov to get caught strolling to the artifact.
- One Small Step: Addressed a difficulty that would trigger Vasco to seem caught within the flooring of a commandeered Crimson Fleet ship.
- One Small Step: Miners ought to not hearth on the participant within the Vectera mines.
- One Small Step: Resolved a difficulty that would forestall quick journey to the ship from the world boundary.
- Rook Meets King: Addressed a difficulty that would trigger idle animations to play on a corpse.
- Sabotage: Fastened a difficulty that would trigger manipulated characters to maneuver in an unintended approach.
- Begin-up Stopped: Addressed a difficulty that typically brought about the search to not provoke.
- The Greatest There Is: Fastened a difficulty that would trigger participant to incorrectly obtain an unintended goal.
- The Devils You Know: Improved the place characters had been wanting in some scenes.
- The Mantis: Fastened a uncommon situation that would trigger the Razorleaf to vanish.
- The Outdated Neighborhood: Addressed a difficulty that would happen when utilizing space of impact assaults in Moara’s ship.
- Conflict Relics: Addressed a difficulty that would trigger Unit 99 to seem caught.
- Left Behind: NPCs will not discuss being attacked by wildlife on lifeless planets.
- Legacy’s Finish: Resolved a difficulty that would trigger NPCs to be culled relying on the place the participant is situated.
- Grunt Work: The Terrormorph ought to not get caught if lured into the room Hadrian is hiding in.