Following Datamine Leak, Bethesda Confirms Starfield Space Gameplay Revamp ‘To Make the Travels There More Rewarding’

Starfield developer Bethesda has yet teased immoderate of the upcoming changes coming to the game, confirming improvements to abstraction gameplay “to marque the travels determination much rewarding.”

Earlier this month, fragments of codification uncovered by Starfield fans suggested Bethesda had a much streamlined abstraction question acquisition successful the works, though perchance inactive with immoderate caveats. While you whitethorn beryllium capable to question betwixt planets wrong the aforesaid system, fans said it looked similar you wouldn’t beryllium capable to alert all the way betwixt systems. And it looks similar you won’t beryllium capable to alert straight from a planet's aboveground into orbit, similar No Man's Sky.

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

Now, successful a caller video discussing his career, seasoned Bethesda developer Tim Lamb confirmed that the workplace has been moving connected Starfield’s abstraction gameplay, and that a caller DLC communicative is inactive coming astatine immoderate point.

“I deliberation arsenic it comes to Starfield, I'm truly excited for players to spot what the teams person been moving on,” helium said. “We person immoderate chill worldly coming, including escaped updates and features the players person been asking for, arsenic good arsenic a caller DLC story.

“I can't spell into each the details conscionable yet, but I volition accidental portion of the squad has been focused connected abstraction gameplay to marque the travels determination much rewarding. We're besides adding immoderate caller crippled systems, and a fewer different smaller delights. There's besides immoderate truly absorbing worldly coming down the tube from our verified creators. There's immoderate amusive stuff.

“I conscionable privation to accidental thanks. We truly admit the enactment and the enthusiasm. We can't hold to get it into the hands of our players.”

Last month, Bethesda said it had "exciting things" coming to Starfield soon — presumably referring to this. However, Starfield was a no-show astatine gamescom 2025 past week, prompting further instrumentality concern.

Earlier this month, it was reported that Starfield's 2nd enlargement and much-anticipated PlayStation 5 larboard would 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.

Starfield launched successful September 2023 arsenic Bethesda’s archetypal marque caller IP successful 25 years, but it was not arsenic good received arsenic the studio’s erstwhile games successful the Fallout and The Elder Scrolls franchises, and the Shattered Space expansion, released a twelvemonth aboriginal successful September 2024, has a ‘mostly negative’ idiosyncratic reappraisal standing connected Steam.

Starfield went connected to scope 15 cardinal players, but the question of whether Bethesda mightiness locomotion distant from the crippled to absorption connected its different franchises has been a moving taxable since release. In June 2024, Bethesda insisted it remained committed to supporting Starfield, and confirmed astatine slightest 1 different communicative enlargement would travel retired pursuing Shattered Space. And successful an interrogation with YouTube transmission MrMattyPlays, Bethesda Game Studios’ Todd Howard said the developer was aiming to merchandise an yearly communicative enlargement for “hopefully a precise agelong time.”

Speaking much mostly astir the improvement of Starfield, Lamb described it arsenic “like making 4 games astatine once.”

“You person your, I'm moving astir shooting aliens and abstraction guys,” helium said. “You person your, I'm flying astir successful a spaceship, shooting different spaceships. You person the vessel builder game. You person the outpost game. Starfield to maine was similar making 4 games astatine once.”

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