2 Years Later, Starfield Looks Set to Actually Let You Fly From One Place to Another, Though Not Quite Like No Man's Sky

Remember Starfield? Launched to immense fanfare successful 2023, Bethesda's large sci-fi anticipation landed to a mixed reception from players — who person since gone connected to kick astir the game's disappointing archetypal enlargement and deficiency of important ongoing support.

However, 1 agleam spot connected the skyline appears to beryllium signs of Bethesda yet adding the highly-requested quality to question successful your spaceship from 1 satellite to different — alternatively than what happens now, arsenic you load up a loading surface to participate orbit, and from determination load up different loading surface to get to wherever you're going.

Fragments of codification uncovered by Starfield fans present suggest Bethesda has a much streamlined acquisition successful the works, though perchance inactive with immoderate caveats. While you whitethorn beryllium capable to question betwixt planets wrong the aforesaid system, fans accidental it looks similar you won't beryllium capable to alert each the mode betwixt systems. Oh, and you besides won't beryllium capable to alert straight from a planet's aboveground into orbit, similar No Man's Sky. Oh, well.

References to the caller offering, referred to successful the game's codification arsenic "Cruise Mode," were detected by players this week and shared connected reddit, though Bethesda has reportedly present issued different tiny spot to scrub them from view.

After different no-show astatine June's Xbox Games Showcase, it remains to beryllium seen erstwhile Bethesda volition get astir to mentioning the crippled again. Last month, Bethesda said it had "exciting things" coming to the crippled soon — presumably referring to this. Perhaps we'll perceive much successful a mates of weeks astir Gamescom, up of the game's two-year anniversary?

Earlier this month, it was reported that Starfield's 2nd enlargement and much-anticipated PlayStation 5 larboard volition present get successful 2026, pursuing the mediocre reception to 2024 add-on Shattered Space. Bethesda brag Todd Howard had antecedently talked of expansions arriving annually, but possibly Bethesda sees the summation of immoderate signifier of spaceflight arsenic thing to support players occupied until then.

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