Bethesda is working on some big Starfield updates ahead of the space game’s bigger DLC expansions, including new ways to travel and, finally, add city maps. The news comes from a post Bethesda made on the Starfield Reddit, where the studio also promised mod support – a feature players have hoped for since Starfield launched in September 2023.
“We’re also hard at work on many of new features you asked for, from city maps, to mod support, to all new ways of traveling (stay tuned!),” Bethesda said. “These will be rolling out with a regular cadence of fixes and updates we expect to have roughly every six weeks. If something can be done in a smaller hotfix in between,, and we feel it’s safe, we’ll get one of those out as well. Safe is the key here. We do take a lot of time to test even the smallest change in a game this large and dynamic.”
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A previous hotfix introduced an issue that caused an asteroid to follow players around, which is a problem, but not as big as the Starfield glitch that uprooted entire cities.
Meanwhile, Bethesda’s studio design director Emil Pagliarulo took to Twitter to complain about players who were dissatisfied with Starfield and said they don’t understand how game development works.
Loooong🧵 (1/15) Funny how disconnected some players are from the realities of game development, and yet they speak with complete authority. I mean, I can guess what it takes to make a Hostess Twinkie, but I don't work in the factory, so what the hell do I really know? Not a lot.
— Emil Pagliarulo (@Dezinuh) December 13, 2023
“I don’t complain about games on social for two main reasons: 1.) I know how hard it is to make games, and have too much respect for my fellow devs,” Pagliarulo said. “2.) I work for a game studio, and it would be uncool and unprofessional for me to do so. But sometimes I want to. Oh boy.”
“Part of me really gets it. When you’re a consumer and spend money on things, that gives you the right to complain about those things. I spend a LOT of money on games every year, and sometimes it takes a lot for me not to scream into the internet’s collective consciousness.”
The thread continues for another 13 posts.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
