Starfield’s Shattered Area enlargement out in autumn, “metropolis map stuff” due quickly

It has been some time since Bethesda’s had something important to say about Starfield, however that ought to be altering quickly – not solely is its Shattered Area story enlargement now confirmed to be gearing up for an autumn launch, a brand new free replace ought to be launching quickly.

Shattered Area first reared its head final June, when it was bundled into a few Starfield particular editions for launch someday this yr. And Bethesda’s Todd Howard, talking to Kinda Humorous Video Games (thanks VGC) has now narrowed that down, confirming the enlargement – which guarantees new story content material, new areas, new gear, and extra – is coming “within the fall”.

However there’s extra Starfield stuff occurring too, with Howard additionally revealing a brand new free replace will “get introduced in a number of days this week” forward of the standard Steam beta – which places its arrival round a month and a half after March’s replace, that means Bethesda remains to be managing to stay to final yr’s promise of releasing new Starfield updates “roughly each six weeks”.

And as for what this newest launch will carry, Howard teased “loads of stuff”, elaborating that the staff “redid the map stuff, so we’ve got some metropolis map stuff.” This may hopefully handle Starfield’s much-criticised, bafflingly ineffective metropolis maps, that are at the moment offered as a few icons on some bumpy topography – no useful avenue layouts or buildings in sight.

Gamers may count on some “nice stuff for ship constructing” too, though it isn’t completely clear what this may be. Howard provided no replace on Bethesda’s intriguing earlier promise of “new methods of touring”, however hopefully we’ll hear extra on that later this yr.