Starfield's second DLC might involve a "Terran Armada", and that sounds quite whelming

Bethesda are looking guardant "to the adventures yet to come", but I'll request much convincing to tag along

Steam tells maine I've spent 171 hours of my beingness to this constituent playing Starfield. It's not an insignificant magnitude of time, but it pales successful examination to however agelong I've spent with the myriad different works of developers Bethesda. Said devs present look similar they mightiness person fired up the tease rocket for the abstraction RPG's 2nd large expansion. If they have, the precise small they've shown disconnected truthful acold hasn't gotten maine close connected committee to play more.

Almost a twelvemonth since Starfield's archetypal DLC, Shattered Space, unleashed its spooky gunk, Bethesda commemorated the 2nd day of the game's merchandise by tweeting the abbreviated video below.

Yep, the piss filter of teaseage was whipped out, with fans rearranging the frames successful specified manner that they work "Terran Armada". Naturally, the decision jumped to by plentifulness of folks is that this could beryllium the sanction of the 2nd enlargement the developers person had acceptable successful chromatic for a while, but haven't said thing astir beyond that.

The sanction suggests a fleet of ships from oregon someway related to Earth, and if that's the case, my feelings are champion summed up by a straight-faced shrug. As overmuch arsenic judging a Bethesda DLC by the name's beauteous pointless, successful the lack of immoderate different info, the thought of an enlargement focused astir Earthly matters doesn't get maine excessively excited.

Let maine outline why. With its comparative deficiency of aliens extracurricular of hostile planet-dwelling creatures, a reasonably adust and technological NASA-inspired marque of sci-fi, and the destiny of Earth being a cardinal thread successful its main plot, Starfield feels to maine similar it's done plentifulness of Earthy worldly already. It's adjacent done the thought of a vessel afloat of folks from Earth randomly popping up to beef with the residents of the Settled Systems. Remember visiting Paradiso connected Porrima II, past serving arsenic the middleperson betwixt the edifice and the Earth Colony Ship Constant, the second of which had someway managed to roam done abstraction encountering cipher other for astir 200 years?

I do, and it was perfectly meh. That's not to accidental a DLC couldn't enactment a twist connected a communicative similar that oregon find another, intriguing mode to revamp the comparatively featureless sand-ball that was Starfield's ruined Earth. However, arsenic I outlined erstwhile I reviewed the Shattered Space enlargement astatine my erstwhile home, my view's agelong been that the champion mode Bethesda tin utilise Starfield DLC is to overgarment a spot much colour and vibrance onto the canvas of an impressively immense but often rather bland universe.

On the 1 hand, that archetypal DLC was astir snake worshippers connected a purple planet, truthful you tin reason that for variety's involvement trying to spell the weird and alien way again wouldn't beryllium ideal. Though, I reckon astatine this constituent you mightiness arsenic good clasp the out-there ideas. No 1 DLC's going to rehabilitate Starfield's estimation from would-be masterpiece that didn't measurement up to the endless hype, to universally beloved sibling of the Elder Scrolls and Fallout juggernauts.

A sequel would person that chance, though, assuming it arrived earlier the existent heat-death of our universe. So, wherefore not spell aft the unusual and unique, arsenic those different Bethesda-helmed bid I've conscionable cited person successful immoderate of their strongest and astir memorable moments, some successful the publisher's hands and extracurricular of them? Even if the crippled ends up being a one-off, person it spell retired with 1 oregon a bid of supernova explosions, alternatively than the cosmic whimper of an aging comet.

We'll conscionable person to spot which of those "Terran Armada" ends up being, assuming it's a DLC tease and not conscionable Todd Howard's luncheon order.