Since the launch and subsequent mehness of Shattered Space, Bethesda has been awfully quiet about the future of Starfield. This has led to people wondering if the team had wrapped up support for their space RPG and moved on to other things. It seems they aren’t done after all, though, because they’ve just confirmed more story content is coming.
The announcement was rather weird. Instead of revealing this in a Starfield video or social media account, they instead chose to talk about it in a developer spotlight video posted to the official Bethesda Youtube channel.
Timothy Lamb, the Lead Creative Producer of Starfield, was the subject of the 5:46-long video. His ongoing work on Starfield is a major component of the video, and eventually the topic of what’s next for the game comes up.
“I think as it comes to Starfield, I’m really excited for players to see what the team’s been working on,” Lamb said, excitedly. “We have some cool stuff coming, including free updates and features the players have been asking for, as well as a new DLC story.“
Lamb couldn’t offer any other details, but did say that “part of the team has been focused on space gameplay to make the travels there more rewarding.”
Players have been divided on Starfield’s approach to space travel. Many criticised it for relying heavily on menus, loading screens, and fast travel, saying it breaks immersion and makes exploring the galaxy feel fragmented and shallow.
This ties in with recent datamining claiming that a new “cruise” mode is going to be introduced into the game which will replace the current travel system, letting players seamlessly move from world to world. Part of the leak suggested that exiting cruise mode could result in a random battle.
There was also previous rumours that Bethesda have filed a patent for “Starborn” which some people thought might be related to Starfield DLC.
And, of course, there’s the ongoing speculation about when Starfield is going to make the leap to PlayStation.
So there we have it: Starfield will continue to be supported for a while yet.