'Temper Expectations' — Bethesda Reportedly Prepping Starfield Improvements, Though Suggestion Is This 'Isn't a Cyberpunk 2.0 Scale Update'

A clump of Starfield fans accidental they've gained an aboriginal glimpse astatine improvements coming to Bethesda's sci-fi role-player, though person suggested the changes are comparatively humble successful scope.

The fans claimed Bethesda invited them to instrumentality a look astatine the upcoming content, with 1 saying they were "stoked" by what they saw, portion different suggested they were "excited for the aboriginal of Starfield." For now, the details of what was shown stay nether embargo, to beryllium decently revealed astatine a aboriginal date.

But there's besides a enactment of caution here, regarding the scope and standard of what Bethesda is really moving on. Another contented creator, who said they had been contacted by respective Starfield fans either astatine the lawsuit oregon who helped enactment it on, suggested this "probably isn't a Cyberpunk 2.0-scale update," referencing the large additions that helped improved CD Projekt's RPG.

Word that Bethesda is moving connected much contented for Starfield is unsurprising — indeed, Bethesda brag Todd Howard said backmost successful August that the institution had "free updates and features the players person been asking for, arsenic good arsenic a caller DLC story" successful the works.

"I can't spell into each the details conscionable yet, but I volition accidental portion of the squad has been focused connected abstraction gameplay to marque the travels determination much rewarding," Howard noted. "We're besides adding immoderate caller crippled systems, and a fewer different smaller delights. There's besides immoderate truly absorbing worldly coming down the tube from our verified creators. There's immoderate amusive stuff."

This tease followed a agelong play of vigor soundlessness connected Starfield's future, and the find of datamined references to a still-unannounced "Cruise Mode" that suggested players would yet beryllium capable to really question successful your spaceship from 1 satellite to another. Firm details from Bethesda itself stay bladed connected the ground, however, with the game's 2nd day successful September passing with conscionable a elemental societal media station and the vague tease of thing named "Terran Armada."

Bethesda's vagueness astir aboriginal plans for Starfield has agelong been a constituent of treatment among fans, with a consciousness that the institution has pulled backmost connected its erstwhile ambitions for the crippled pursuing its mixed effect and amid a clamoring for the company's 2 bigger franchises, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout.

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 PlayStation 5, with some the 2nd enlargement and the game's multiplatform rollout perchance happening simultaneously. Here's hoping 2026 provides a clearer consciousness of the game's future.

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