Though it’s not everyone’s cup of tea,Starfieldcertainly has made a name for itselfamong gaming audiences. The developer, Bethesda, is thankfully not dropping its post-launch updates anytime soon. The game’s latest update is about to get a beta very, very soon, in fact.
As Bethesda promisedlate in 2023,Starfieldis due to receive major, meaningful patches every six weeks or so in 2024. This improvement to the game’s updating cadence won’t be dropping in until sometime in February, but the good news is that Bethesda’s plans for the interim update are more substantial than we might’ve expected. On top of the usual suite of bug fixing, for example, we’re due to receive a whole assortment of graphical improvements to boot.
Next week, on January 17, we’ll be putting our biggest@StarfieldGameupdate yet into Steam Beta with over 100 fixes and improvements, with a planned release date for all players two weeks later. Here’s some of what you can expect:pic.twitter.com/IPpVjuG5OQ
Starfield’s first update of 2024 is promising, but not groundbreaking
Certainly, Bethesda’s plans forStarfield‘s official updates are hardly as exciting asone modder’s plight to develop pilotable mechs, but they’re fairly promising in their own right. On top of fixing some truly infamous bugs, such asthose sticky asteroidsand inaccessible ship hatches, Bethesda also appears to be working on a few interesting graphical improvements forStarfield.
As per Bethesda’s explanation, players can expect “improved textures, lighting, and shadows” in the game, as well as improvements to sun disk geometry and the rendering of planet ring shadows. Objects torn down to build up outposts will no longer pop back up, either, which was a royal pain when building on steep terrain and the like. Further, “additional widescreen support” is being touted as well, though there’s no word yet on what, exactly, that might be referring to.
This means thatthe “new ways of traveling” updateisn’t on Bethesda’s docket just yet, but we’re still looking at some fairly promising improvements here.
Much as was the case withStarfield‘s DLSS update, the first patch of 2024 will first be available in beta form via Steam, starting on January 17. Bethesda claims we’ve got “over 100 fixes and improvements” to look forward to, and the fact that it’s all coming in relatively soon is good news indeed, and a solid start of the year forStarfield. Let’s see if Bethesda can keep this up.
