The latest Starfield patch, currently in Steam Beta, has players optimistic for the future of Bethesda’s massive space RPG.
Since its release last September,Starfieldhas garnered pretty mixed reviews. While some have spent hundreds of hours in the game and are stilldelighted to find more secretsin its massive universe, others fell off of it pretty quickly, citing aweak gameplay loopandunderwhelming story content.
Not helping the matter was the fact that Bethesda was initially slow to release updates.
Starfield players hopeful following two major patches
Bethesda shared patch notes for the latest Starfield update when it entered Steam Beta this week. There’s no word yet on when the update will go live for all players on both PC and Xbox, but considering the last update was in Beta for about two weeks, the wait probably won’t be too long.
While most players won’t be able to experience the changes just yet, the patch notes alone have some feeling better about the state of Starfield and Bethesda’s post-launch support plans.
AsReddit user Loose_Respond_6855put it, “I was greatly surprised by the number of fixes (over 500!) brought by the latest update, in addition to the first quality of life updates.”
The poster goes on to praise Bethesda’s strategy of “first fixing bugs, then gradually introducing quality of life updates,” speculating that QoL changes and new features will eventually outnumber the bug fixes.
As the comments show, they aren’t the only ones “reassured” by the update.
“Honestly very surprised at the sheer volume of them,” said one user in reference to the number of patches and significant changes within them.
It’ll likely be a while until we get significant content updates, including theShattered Spaceexpansion that was announced pre-launch. Still, these recent Starfield updates seem to be laying the groundwork for future additions that could have more players puttingat least another 800 hoursinto exploring the universe.
Noelle Corbett was a Senior Writer on Dexerto’s US team. She is a Gaming expert, covering Pokemon, Baldur’s Gate, Dungeons & Dragons, and RPGs. She also has bylines at CBR.
