Bethesda is far from finished with Starfield
Bethesda has confirmed it’s planning to add a host of highly-requested new features with a series of updates expected to launch every six weeks or so.
The studio made a Reddit comment stating it’s “hard at work on many of [the] new features you asked for, from city maps to mod support, to all-new ways of traveling (stay tuned!). These will be rolling out with a regular cadence of fixes and updates we expect to have roughly every six weeks.”
Bethesda has previously stated that official mod support will be added to Starfield in 2024, most likely through the use of the same Creation Kit tool that enabled modders in the studio’s previous games. Similarly, the developers stated that they’d “love to do city maps” after the game’s release, and it appears that those plans are finally becoming more concrete.
The real surprises here, then, are the “all-new ways of traveling.” Your guess is as good as mine as to what that means, and you can read the comments on Reddit for more speculation. It could be a new vehicle, a new fast travel system, or – hopefully – the ability to travel directly from planet to planet while flying your spaceship. We’ll just have to see what these updates have in store for us.
Naturally, more bug fixes are also in the works. According to Bethesda, it has “been hard at work on many of the issues you’ve posted, and expect an update early next year that will include a large number of ‘in-progress’ quest fixes as well as FSR3 and XeSS. Though we fixed several quest issues from occurring, in-progress quest fixes are much harder to fix and we’ve built a new system to correct those without you having to roll back your save.” Smaller hotfixes might also be released in between these bigger updates, according to the studio.