Starfield's Next Update Is 'Not Starfield 2.0,' Bethesda Boss Confirms: 'If It Didn’t Connect With You Right Away Or You Found It Boring, I Don’t Think This is Going to Change That'

Bethesda brag Todd Howard has confirmed that Starfield is not getting a immense 2.0-type update.

At the extremity of past year, a clump of Starfield fans said they'd gained an aboriginal glimpse astatine improvements coming to Bethesda's sci-fi role-player. One saying they were "stoked" by what they saw, portion different suggested they were "excited for the aboriginal of Starfield."

However, different instrumentality tempered anticipation by stressing that the changes are comparatively humble successful scope, adding that this "probably isn't a Cyberpunk 2.0-scale update," referencing the large additions that helped improved CD Projekt's RPG.

And present Howard, too, is dampening anticipation by likewise stressing this is "not Starfield 2.0."

“Obviously, we’ve been moving connected a batch of Starfield content. I tin archer everybody we are going to beryllium talking astir [the caller content] truly soon,” Howard told Kinda Funny, arsenic transcribed by Kotaku. “We’re moving into a signifier wherever we’re acceptable to speech astir Starfield. And truly amusement that successful the close way, and what’s coming to the game. We’ve been doing a batch of enactment that we similar a lot.”

Howard added: "You know, I’ve seen immoderate of that, truthful for expectation-setting, I deliberation it’s the benignant of happening wherever if you emotion Starfield, we deliberation you’re going to emotion this. It’s updates and things that alteration the game, not successful an isolated way, but benignant of meta. Using outer abstraction and things successful ways that we haven’t."

Interestingly, helium besides candidly stressed that ​​"if Starfield is thing that didn’t link with you close away, oregon you bounced disconnected it, oregon recovered it boring successful places, I don’t deliberation this is going to alteration that fundamentally."

Though Howard was coy astir timelines, helium did accidental we whitethorn find retired much "soonish."

In August it was reported that Bethesda had delayed Starfield's 2nd enlargement owed to "weak sales" of its first, Shattered Space, which launched successful September 2024 to a 'Mostly Negative' Steam idiosyncratic rating. Todd Howard had antecedently talked of Starfield expansions releasing annually. Another reported crushed for the hold was Bethesda's plans to motorboat Starfield connected PS5, with some the 2nd enlargement and the game's multiplatform rollout perchance happening simultaneously.

Fast-forward to earlier this month, and a caller Microsoft study suggested Starfield was getting caller contented soon, and it looks similar we’ll soon perceive astir that heavy rumored PlayStation 5 version, too.

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