Bethesda Breaks Silence on Starfield Future, Promises to Share Details on 'Exciting Things' in the Coming Months

Bethesda has breached its soundlessness connected the aboriginal of Starfield, insisting it’s inactive moving connected updates and volition stock details connected the “exciting things” it has planned successful the coming months.

Starfield players person for immoderate clip present expressed their dissatisfaction astatine the level of connection coming retired of Bethesda connected the aboriginal of the game, with its no-show astatine June’s Xbox Games Showcase considered the last straw for some.

The Starfield assemblage had hoped Bethesda would denote thing to bash with the crippled astatine its show, but portion The Elder Scrolls Online and Fallout 76 some got their infinitesimal successful the spotlight, Starfield skipped proceedings entirely. No DLC, nary expansion, nary PlayStation 5 release… nothing.

Now, up of Gamescom successful August, Bethesda has piped up with a connection connected Steam that is arsenic little arsenic it is vague, but astatine slightest addresses Starfield’s aboriginal and promises much contented is successful the works.

“Looking ahead, we’re continuing enactment connected aboriginal updates and volition stock much astir the breathtaking things we person planned for Starfield successful the coming months,” Bethesda said successful a station accompanying Starfield Update 1.15.222, which is successful beta signifier connected Steam. Patch notes are below.

Starfield players are hoping this means the promised 2nd Starfield enlargement is inactive coming, and that Starfield whitethorn travel the likes of Forza Horizon 5 and marque the leap to PlayStation 5.

Starfield launched successful September 2023 arsenic Bethesda’s archetypal marque caller IP successful 25 years, but it was not arsenic good received arsenic the studio’s erstwhile games successful the Fallout and The Elder Scrolls franchises, and the Shattered Space expansion, released a twelvemonth aboriginal successful September 2024, has a ‘mostly negative’ idiosyncratic reappraisal standing connected Steam.

Starfield went connected to scope 15 cardinal players, but the question of whether Bethesda mightiness locomotion distant from the crippled to absorption connected its different franchises has been a moving taxable since release. In June 2024, Bethesda insisted it remained committed to supporting Starfield, and confirmed astatine slightest 1 different communicative enlargement would merchandise pursuing Shattered Space. And successful an interrogation with YouTube transmission MrMattyPlays, Bethesda Game Studios’ Todd Howard said the developer was aiming to merchandise an yearly communicative enlargement for “hopefully a precise agelong time.”

Bethesda was earnestly affected by Microsoft’s latest circular of layoffs, with cuts to its London bureau and ZeniMax Online Studios. Its unannounced MMORPG was canceled, and its seasoned workplace caput stepped down.

Starfield Update 1.15.222 spot notes:

General

• Minor improvements to format and show successful Creations menus.
• Addressed an contented that could origin that Extreme Temperature cogwheel to look incorrectly.
• Minor improvements to sorting successful the Missions Menu.
• General clang and stableness fixes.

This update is presently successful Steam Beta. If you would similar to opt successful to the Starfield Beta update, delight travel these instructions:

• Open your Steam Library and navigate to Starfield
• Right click connected "Starfield" and prime "Properties"
• In the caller properties pop-up window, prime "Betas"
• In the beta driblet down to opt into, prime "[beta]"
• Wait for app to download caller physique and launch

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