Starfield gets city maps, 'new ways of traveling'

Bethesda Game Studios plans to update Starfield By 2024, a studio representative was posted approximately every six weeks on the game's Reddit forum. This comes after Bethesda addressed several issues in a patch on Mondayone of which fixes a bug that caused the player's ship to become a 'pet asteroid' – space stuff stuck to ships.

Several features emerge Starfield, the message said. Mod support, which was announced in September, is one of those features, but players can also expect city maps and “all new ways to travel.” “These will be rolled out with a regular series of fixes and updates that we expect approximately every six weeks,” the Bethesda representative said. “If something can be done in a smaller hotfix in between (like the asteroid), and we think it's safe, we'll take one out as well. Safe is the key word here. We take a lot of time to test even the smallest change in a game that is so large and dynamic.”

People have complained about it a lot StarfieldBut the lack of a map in the game was one of the big problems. Cities simply don't have maps – just a mostly blank screen with a few icons to mark points of interest. It's something you might have expected from each of them Starfield's thousands of generated planets, but not for the core cities. (A fan-made one Starfield database created interactive mapsif you're looking for them.) Bethesda previously said it would like to add city maps to the game, but the studio's Reddit post on Tuesday is the first official confirmation.

Bethesda also plans to add “new ways to travel,” but that's all that's been provided so far. There are several things this could mean, the most likely being land transportation. Starfield game director and CEO of Bethesda Game Studios, Todd Howard told Bloomberg in September that the studio considered it but ultimately decided against it: “Once you make vehicles, it changes the gameplay,” Howard said. “As soon as you land in your ship (…) you are on foot. It allows us to really make it an experience for the players where we know how quickly they see things.”

It could also mean changes to the way space travel works – that's another thing that's being criticized. Starfield is a game about space exploration, but the actual ship navigation was a turn-off for some players as the experience isn't seamless. You have to travel quickly to reach different planets, and you can't just pull up and land on a planet.

Of course, we won't know for sure until Bethesda announces more, probably next year.