Simply over a 12 months after its preliminary launch, Bethesda has lastly given Starfield gamers a better take a look at the sport’s upcoming DLC, the Shattered Space enlargement. A nine-minute deep dive trailer breaking down the enlargement was just lately uploaded to Bethesda’s YouTube channel, giving gamers their first actual style of what the enlargement has to supply. The trailer additionally revealed the enlargement’s launch date: September 30.
Centered across the destiny of what’s simply one of the fascinating factions from the bottom game–Home Va’ruun–Shattered Space is a principally self-contained journey, in keeping with Bethesda, happening completely on the homeworld of Home Va’ruun–known as Va’ruun’kai–and its capitol metropolis, Dazra.
“We love Starfield’s large open galaxy, however from early on in our planning, we knew we needed to introduce some extra secluded and handcrafted places much like what you have seen from our previous expansions,” stated lead producer Joe Mueller. “There’s a lot thriller to Home Va’Ruun! And becaused they’ve so completely remoted themselves, it made them the right faction to discover in a very self-contained expertise.”
“From the minute you arrive on Va’ruun’kai, the story by no means sends you off-planet,” lead artistic producer Tim Lamb defined. “You are free to depart at any time, however the story is absolutely centered round life on the Va’ruun homeworld.”
“Every little thing you uncover, each location you go to, each facet mission you search out, all of it tells the story of what occurred right here, and the way the Va’ruun folks have survived lower off from the comforts of the Settled Techniques and the remainder of humanity,” Mueller added.

In Shattered Space, gamers will arrive on Va’ruun’kai shortly after a significant catastrophe that sees the reclusive civilization descending into chaos.
“One in every of our most important themes all through the bottom recreation is humanity’s seek for data,” lead quest designer Brian Chapin stated. “Shattered Space remains to be about that search, nevertheless it’s additionally about what occurs when it goes too far. “Earlier than the beginning of Shattered Space, a secret experiment involving Grave-Drive expertise went terribly fallacious. It is a very excessive pursuit, and it has backfired horribly for the folks of Home Va’ruun.”
“[The experiment] resulted in an enormous tear within the cloth of space-time that swallowed a good portion of the Va’ruun capitol of Dazra,” design director and author Emil Pagliarulo stated of the enlargement’s storyline. “You arrive just some weeks after the Vortex Incident. It is nonetheless very recent in everybody’s thoughts. There is a large crater of their metropolis, nothing has been reconstructed, persons are nonetheless trying to find lacking family members.”
Along with the huge crater, the folks of Va’ruun are additionally coping with different challenges. After the Grav-Drive experiment went sideways, The Scaled Citadel–Home Va’ruun’s seat of governmental power–became trapped inside a mysterious vitality area. Moreover, Anasko Va’ruun–Speaker for the Nice Serpent and chief of Home Va’ruun–is lacking. His disappearance has created an influence vacuum, and the smaller factions that make up Home Var’uun are every combating for management of the now-devastated Va’ruun homeworld, its authorities, and its future. As they progress by the story and discover Va’ruun’kai, gamers should work together with Home Va’ruun’s numerous sub-factions, and the trailer hints that the destiny and way forward for Home Va’ruun and its homeworld relaxation within the participant’s fingers.

“Va’ruun’kai and Dazra Metropolis are like no different location within the base recreation,” artwork director Istvan Pely stated of Shattered Space’s environments, that are visually placing and–unlike many different places within the chronically desaturated Settled Techniques–filled with coloration.
“Va’ruun’kai has a very distinct visible identification,” artistic lead Alan Nanes added. “We are saying it is very ‘alien.’ You will see this within the extraterrestrial panorama, gravity anomalies, and rather more.”
By “gravity anomalies,” Nanes appears to imply “moments the place gravity stops working,” because the trailer options a number of photographs of floating corpses and clips of low-g fight.
Because of the tear within the space-time continuum, unfamiliar beings “from the opposite facet” are slipping by the tear into Va’ruun’kai, and gamers should adapt accordingly. Bethesda says it needed to make use of Shattered Space as a chance to “amp up” fight and introduce over 50 new creatures (together with an alien species merely known as “Horrors”).

Some creatures can arrange ambushes, and the trailer options an prolonged clip of the player-character taking over a hive of very Xenomorph-like creatures referred to as Cavern Bonecrests. The Cavern Bonecrest Queen seems to pose a big risk, particularly if gamers are unprepared. However the planet additionally has its justifiable share of ordinary Spacers, Va’ruun Zealots, and Crimson Fleet pirates for gamers to tackle of their quest to uncover the reality behind Home Va’ruun’s downfall, restore order to its bickering factions, and determine its future.
Starfield’s Shattered Space enlargement launches on September 30 and will likely be out there to buy for $30 USD. Nevertheless, gamers who bought the $100 Premium Version of Starfield will get the enlargement at no cost on launch day.