Summary

  • Starfield plans to address player complaints by adding major quality-of-life improvements, new gameplay features, and a story expansion in 2024.
  • Updates for Starfield will be released roughly every six weeks throughout the year, with the next major update coming in February.
  • Fans can expect new features such as city maps, new ways to travel, ship customization options, difficulty options, and the game's first story expansion, Shattered Space.

Starfield unveiled its plans for 2024, which include the addition of major quality-of-life improvements, new gameplay features, and its first story expansion. Starfield will receive updates roughly every six weeks in 2024, with its next major update coming sooner rather than later.

Starfield finished as one of the top games of 2023, thanks to many players praising its ambitious scale and bold approach to the RPG genre. However, Starfield has seen its fair share of complaints as well. Surprisingly, it lacks some basic features such as in-game maps for cities, and some fans claim that its world feels rather empty once players sink through its surface. Fortunately, it seems that Bethesda has robust plans for Starfield's future, and plans to promptly address some of these issues.

Bethesda's official Reddit account, BethesdaGameStudios_, posted to the Starfield subreddit to explain its plans for 2024. Bethesda detailed that Starfield's first major update in 2024 will be released in February, and the game will continue to receive updates every six weeks as the year progresses. Throughout 2024, fans can expect the addition of city maps, new ways to travel, new ship customization options, new difficulty options, official mod support, and the game's first story expansion, Shattered Space. The post also explained that Starfield will receive regular bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements, in addition to these new features.

What's Coming to Starfield in 2024?

  • City maps
  • New ways to travel
  • New ship customization options
  • New difficulty options
  • Shattered Space (story expansion)

Some fans are hoping that these new difficulty options will include something akin to Fallout 4's survival mode, which makes the game much more challenging by tweaking various features like the quick-save option, fast travel, and ammunition weight. While this mode would make Starfield significantly more difficult, it would add another layer of immersion for hardcore fans.

Starfield's lack of city maps was one of the fan base's main complaints following the game's release. Some of Starfield's cities are dense, making it difficult for inexperienced players to find shops or other important locations without the help of a map. Fortunately, Bethesda seems to be on top of the issue, and its place at the top of the list on Bethesda's post might suggest that this feature will be released with the game's next major update in February. However, this is just speculation.

Starfield's Shattered Space expansion is still shrouded in mystery. Based on Bethesda's expansion schedule in previous games, its release date is expected to be sometime in the first half of 2024. However, this has not been announced yet, although the post seems to confirm that it will release sometime next year. Nothing is known about the expansion's story so far. It could build on Starfield's multiple endings, or introduce a new storyline altogether. Regardless, Starfield fans have good reason to be excited about the game's future.

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Starfield
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Systems
PC-1 Xbox-1
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Top Critic Avg: 85 /100 Critics Rec: 83%
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Released
September 6, 2023
ESRB
M For Mature 17+ Due To Blood, Suggestive Themes, Use of Drugs, Strong Language, Violence
Developer(s)
Bethesda
Publisher(s)
Bethesda
Engine
proprietary engine
Cross-Platform Play
no multiplayer
Cross Save
no
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Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4. In this next generation role-playing game set amongst the stars, create any character you want and explore with unparalleled freedom as you embark on an epic journey to answer humanity’s greatest mystery.
The year is 2330. Humanity has ventured beyond our solar system, settling new planets, and living as a spacefaring people. From humble beginnings as a space miner, you will join Constellation – the last group of space explorers seeking rare artifacts throughout the galaxy – and navigate the vast expanse of the Settled Systems in Bethesda Game Studios’ biggest and most ambitious game.

Genre(s)
Action, RPG