Good news, Starfield’s Shattered Space expansion is dropping this fall, with a “big update” set to arrive even sooner

Get ready for some fresh shipbuilding and city map related, er, “stuff”.

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While we’ve all been caught up in Fallout fever, Starfield , the latest game Bethesda’s actually released into the world, has kind of taken a backseat in most of our minds - something that’s arguably been happening since the start of this year. Now, though, Todd Howard has provided a bit more info on the updates that’re in the works for the game, including the Shattered Space expansion, which is coming later this year.

Yup, while Bethesda’s had a lot on its plate recently with regards to Fallout 4 ’s rather troubled next-gen update, as well as the Fallout show that pretty much everybody and their mum seems to love , Todd’s not gonna let folks forget about his big space baby.

Speaking to Kinda Funny Games , Howard provided a bit of an update on Starfield ’s roadmap. First of all, he confirmed that “Shattered Space is in the fall”, putting a season on the story expansion, which we’d only previously known was set for some point in 2024. So, there’s some of your post-summer plans sorted.

But wait, there was more. Howard also provided some details about a “big update that’s coming really soon for Starfield”, with an announcement set to arrive in “a few days” followed by a Steam beta launch - the path Bethesda’s taken with a lot of its Starfield updates. It’ll feature “some great stuff for shipbuilding” and “some city map stuff” that’s been re-vamped, which, I mean, who doesn’t love stuff, right?

The Bethesda big cheese was also asked later on in the interview about Starfield’s Creation Kit - something modders have been waiting on for a while now. “We’ve delivered it to some people, some of our creators for Starfield, you’re gonna hear some information about that soon,” Howard said, “So, [I] don’t have a date to announce on when its full release is coming, but [it’s] really, really important to us.”

If you’re looking for something to help tide you over until all of this Starfield stuff actually arrives, earlier this month, a DLC-sized mod which lets you build giant mechs and transforms the game’s outposts into “an immersive space colonization simulator” arrived, and it looks pretty cool.

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Good news, Starfield’s Shattered Space expansion is dropping this fall, with a “big update” set to arrive even sooner#

Good news, Starfield’s Shattered Space expansion is dropping this fall, with a “big update” set to arrive even sooner