Starfield Will Get New Ways to Travel, City Maps, FSR3 & XeSS Support, and More Via Regular Updates

Bethesda has teased regular updates coming to Starfield every six weeks, including new ways of traveling, city maps, more quest fixes, FSR3 and XeSS support, and more.

[Ezio2048]

If only these features were available at launch

[Obscure_Observer]

"If only these features were available at launch"

The same usual people would still complain, in fact the vast majority of people commenting in this very topic aren´t even playing the game.

Some people here never played the game, and yet, they´re here complaining or talking sh!t just for the heck of it.

For, Starfield fans, its amazing news that Bethesda will continue to deliver on more updates, fixes and quality of life improvements within the game for many years to come.

In a year from now, we´ll have a very different and far better Starfield with full mod support and future expansions and dlcs.

Great times ahead! :)

[isarai]

@Obcure
Why would people play a mediocre game? Why do you need to have played the game to have an opinion about it? Don't need to have played the game to see the glaring issues.

[mkis007]

So you need to play a game to know that it's good? So why do you keep saying how amazing these unreleased xbox games are?

[Godmars290]

What you're complaining about might have some weight, if not for most - if not all - Bethesda/Todd Howard titles releasing in sub-par states. Seeing updates patches and largely mods to improve them.

[raWfodog]

I don’t have to play the game to know it’s not what I’m looking for now. There’s already plenty of information regarding the game’s issues provided by actual players. I’ve alway said that the complete edition two years from now will be when I’ll become interested in seeing what it brings.

[notachance]

Just so you know, blind faith like you drove people away from xbox instead of attracting new fans.

[darthv72]

"So you need to play a game to know that it's good?"..... I mean It certainly doesn't hurt.

Many games may not look like they be fun and then you try it and find out for yourself. Sometimes they surprise you.

[EvertonFC]

Game was very good, but I think alot of gamers have moved on including myself.

[jeromeface]

just like the same MS defenders come running when the falter. Which has been for years btw.

[Armyofdarkness]

I’ve completed it and it’s mediocre at best. Skyrim is still better

[lukasmain]

"full mod support"

Well not all of them.

https://www.pcgamer.com/cre...

[neutralgamer1992]

Obscure_Observer

please stop. People aren't playing this game because it's so average at best.

In a year from now, we´ll have a very different and far better Starfield with full mod support and future expansions and dlcs.

everything wrong with gaming today. This game shouldn't have launched if all these things were missing. How about we don't defend this companies and demand better. Starfield is getting all the bad press because it was promised as the first new IP frok makers of ES, FO in 25 years yet all we got was FO in space

story
charcters
loading screen
quests
loading screens
not able to fly
loading screens

NMS a game with less than 25 people have a far better space game out and all updates are free. Bethesda should have looked at NMS and made improvements instead they released a unfinished game which now will be patched overtime

i am tired of cyberpunk, starfield and otehrs releasing the games that require years of future support just to deliver the orignal vision

[Sonic1881]

😁

https://www.pcgamesn.com/st...

https://www.vg247.com/skyri...

[ChasterMies]

“For, Starfield fans, its amazing news”

I’ve been playing games for a long time and imma tell you that it’s never amazing news when a game you already played is getting better only after you are sick to death of playing it. It’s why I like to wait for game of the year editions and ultimate editions before buying into a game.

[Obscure_Observer]

@notachance

"Just so you know, blind faith like you drove people away from xbox instead of attracting new fans."

Don´t worry. Games will do the talking like it always have.

If you watched the TGA presentation, you know what´s coming for you and what is coming for us.

@neutralgamer1992

Dude, you lost me when you mentioned NMS.

https://www.metacritic.com/...

https://www.metacritic.com/...

And please, spare us both from some pathetic mental gymnastics. You can´t bend reality. Deal with the cold hard facts and take your complains to whatever person responsible for those metascores.

Have a nice day.

[MrBaskerville]

I played for 25 hours. Was dissapointed 2 hours in, but decided I would give it a shot and see if the game could win me over. I allready paid the 10 bucks to play, so had to make the best of it. Enjoyed it somewhat for a while, but got fed up after around 20 hours and dropped it after 25 realizing it probably would only get worse from there.

I usually like Bethesda rpgs, but this one has none of the positives from earlier games and invents new negatives while the usual downsides remain.

[itsmebryan]

@obcure
Have you played the game? I'm not really a RPG person but, I'm amazed by the scoop of the game and the many different ways you can play. At first it can be overwhelming all the things you can do. Once you realize there is really not a right way to play. Just play it really excels. It's far ahead of no man's sky at this point after launch.

To call it mediocre is a dramatic overstatement. Starfield won as many awards as Spiderman 2 at the show so it can't be that bad.

[Armaggedon]

@isarai
People play mediocre games all the time. Just look at some of the GOTY contenders.🤣

[babadivad]

@isarai

"Why would people play a mediocre game?"

They played Spider-Man 2.

Your opinion on a game isn't valid if you haven't played it. It's just hearsay.

It is as comical as this reviewer slamming Elden Ring when he hadn't even played the game.

[Zeref]

Games can't add features without people saying "it should have been there at launch" anymore? 😂

[lucian229]

When the game has been in development for over 10 years, had a huge team and still lacks some normal features and is full of nothingness and empty planets, while a single guy in his basement can make a mod to fix those issues in a week without any pay.... Yeah maybe you can see the issue

[-Foxtrot]

If the game is lacking, missing obvious quality of life features, feels empty and so on only to get these things so soon after launch then yeah…it should have been at launch

Witcher 3 I could have added free updates and it would be justified as the main game is huge and well done already

[itsmebryan]

@Zeref
Exactly. Funny I don't hear them complain about GT7 launch and all the updates. They said how great it is that they continue to support their games. Smh

[Gamingsince1981]

It's called polishing a turd

[Neonridr]

it's like another game that had a rocky start and is now universally praised after countless updates.

No Man's Sky.

[Christopher]

How about more filled procedurally generated planet scapes and way more dungeon options on those planets?

[Jin_Sakai]

Now that’s just asking to much. This is Bethesda we’re talking about.

[-Foxtrot]

“Meh.The mods will do it”

[aconnellan]

For sure - these updates would be nice to have, but they just make it easier to get to the same repeated POIs and locations, it doesn’t really change the issue at the core of the game

[porkChop]

It's possible and would be welcomed. I believe both Minecraft and NMS received multiple updates to their procgen algorithms after release.

[anast]

That would be the thing to do.

[sparky77]

If they are talking about land vehicles I would be surprised if that's part of a free update and not DLC.

Going to be insane what this game becomes in a years time.

[MrDead]

You never know in a years time they could actually put some exploration and adventure in the game!!

[Obscure_Observer]

"Going to be insane what this game becomes in a years time."

It´s gonna be fantastic! I have no doubt about it!

Todd and Co. are masters of their craft!

[andy85]

If they were masters...wouldn't it have been nominated for something?

[Vengeance1138]

Shame the player base won't be there to enjoy it lol

[Sephiroushin]

no they are not… Mods are and most modders are giving up on the game which is not looking good

[Hofstaderman]

I'm convinced you an AI tuned to spouting crap.

[dumahim]

Oh good. Faster traversal to nothing.

[-Foxtrot]

“ Going to be insane what this game becomes in a years time”

This mentality needs to stop or all developers will think it’s acceptable

[Obscure_Observer]

"This mentality needs to stop or all developers will think it’s acceptable"

Wake me up when "all developers" have games as big and ambitious as Bethesda Softworks games like Fallout, TES and Starfield.

You know those games for a very VERY long time and you know full well that to this very day that NO COMPANY wants to fund or create whole universes like those. Specially for single player games!

Gamers nowadays are a bunch of entitled jerks! If game as big Starfield as is released in 5-6 years they´ll complain that it should be in the oven. If a game is in development for sa long as Star Citizen, they´ll complain the game will never be released.

The hard cold truth is, NOBODY is willing to invest on such big and expensive AAA single player games nowadays.

So you either support the developers that are trying to make those games better for us or you just stfu and move along, because it´s not like any developer is forcing you to buy their games at gun point!

[shinoff2183]

I just wanna see better exploration , and better lore. The lore was missing alot compared to elders scrolls and fallout.

[Lionsguard]

I'll buy it 2-3 years from now when it's on a deep discount and they finally fix/add everything that modders will have to come in and fix themselves.

[psplova]

Nice. Good to hear. I stopped playing after 300 hours and decided to wait until it becomes a better game before I continue again. FSR3 should be a nice inclusion since I'm playing on the ROG Ally.. Bring it!

[InUrFoxHole]

Good to see a great game get continued support

[gold_drake]

should have had these festures Day1

[jeromeface]

Snubbed at the game awards.. "ok, we'll change it"

[phoenixwing]

Can you cut down on the loading screens between places in a update?

[MrSec84]

The game shouldn't have any loading screens, Series Xbox consoles and PC's with fast SSD's should be able to stream in the data required to make loading seamless.

[Obscure_Observer]

No without sacrifice graphics, texture quality and resolution.

At least, not now.

[anast]

They paraded this game at the new E3 like it was a cinematic masterpiece, it was funny how far they will go to insult people.

[OneLove]

Need way more and better quality side quests.

[MrSec84]

I've put some time into this game since I got my Series X a few weeks ago on Black Friday and it really is bland and barren in it's style.
No Man's Sky was at least fun from the start, while it may have had it's issues, it has been expanded and refined to a massive degree and Bethesda definitely needs to put way more effort in than that.
Hello Games are however a very small studio and they made this kind of game work, without being able to know what every corner of their more vast universe has to offer, yet it's still a better product than Starfield is.

Bethesda should be asking Hello Games for assistance to make Starfield a product of the quality of No Man's Sky.

Don't get me wrong I'll still play a bit here and there of Starfield, but it's not the kind of game that would hold my attention like NMS has.

The NPC's in particular in Starfield just lack personality, there's a distinct lack of life to the game, unlike NMS.

[CobraKai]

Cool. A ground vehicle or aircraft is needed. The one thing i want are landing sequences after you visit a colony. It broke my immersion when you just appear in a planet

[MrBaskerville]

Other ways to travel won't really fix it. Even if they removed the need for fasttravel, it would still be empty because it wasn't designed to be played without fasttravel. Game needs major redesign and rework to make it work in a satsifying way.

Because it's not just about flying from a to b, it's what happens in between a and b that is lacking.

[gigoran8]

It was the space sim part that made me the most disappointed. I am an avid RPG and Space sim player, and the years or promotion for this thing had me wishing so hard that they would do justice to both. Now credit to them, very soon before release they explained the limitations of what you could do with the ship. I wish it had been explained a lot sooner than they did. It would not have hurt as much. So it's an RPG with fast travel ships you can design. It's an OK RPG. But all of that lost potential for what they could have done with flight, really disappointing. And no patch it gonna change that. It's in space! With spaceships! Why neuter it? They are gonna add land transport? COOL! I will be able to get to the load screen a lot faster!

[MrBaskerville]

It is confusing why they even included the spaceship. I didn't play for long before I started doing what I could to avoid spending time in space. It's surprisingly easy to skip the whole space part of the game, because the fast travel is so effective. It's also beneficial because you can avoid a lot of loading if you skip the ship as much as possible. Seems weird that a game about space would make me play it like this.

[babadivad]

Cool. Let's see it.

[raWfodog]

I treat every game release as an ‘early access’ period and wait for other people to play it, complain about the issues (and there usually are some), wait for the devs to respond with plans for fixes and/or upcoming dlc, and then finally get the game after a good long while in its ‘completed’ form and for a lot cheaper than it was at release. I’m just now playing Horizon FW complete edition (game is great and beautiful btw). My time and money are too precious to jump in early on game releases these days.

[DafunkyRebel]

Game got a bad wrap for being bad when its obvious that there are quality in the shit. Hopefully MS fire Todd Howard and put in a new guy to competently run the company and push for fixing the game and redesigning it in ways that can change and improve the product over time. Similar to how Cyberpunk keeps adding new content and gameplay mechanics, and completely changing its combat perk system,