Starfield’s Large Replace Delayed As a result of Of A Mysterious Challenge

On January 16, hours earlier than Starfield’s large replace was scheduled to go dwell in beta kind on Steam, developer Bethesda Sport Studios introduced its delay. The crew stated it nonetheless plans to drop the patch someday this week, however till it may well iron out a newly found (and unnamed) concern, we’ll have to attend for these “over 100” tweaks coming to the spacefaring RPG.

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Bethesda Sport Studios delivered the information on its official Discord server and X/Twitter on Tuesday, January 16. Within the comparatively quick submit, the studio wrote “we found a difficulty we need to tackle earlier than releasing our replace into the Steam Beta.” The brand new launch date, which continues to be set for this week, is imminent.

The delay is a little bit of a bummer as a result of the Starfield replace was promised to be large and all-encompassing. The over 100 tweaks and enhancements are set to incorporate fixes to the Crimson Fleet’s “Eye of the Storm” mission, further widescreen help, adjustments to the sport’s lighting and textures, and different essential changes to easy out the RPG’s efficiency. The Steam beta launch method provides a staggered method to updates that can ideally give the crew room to check options earlier than they go dwell for everybody else.

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This patch, which Bethesda Sport Studios says is scheduled for later this week, doesn’t embody the “new methods of touring” the studio teased in December 2023. That addition doesn’t have a launch date but, however the crew promised that Starfield updates are presently slated for roughly each six weeks, with one of many more moderen ones fixing the pet asteroid concern that noticed little house rocks (and different objects) endlessly following gamers all through the galaxy. It sounds just like the plan for Bethesda Sport Studios is to pave the cracks on the house RPG’s street earlier than the Shattered Area DLC drops within the first half of 2024—if that window stays unchanged, that’s.