Highlights
- A Starfield participant found a gap within the ambiance above New Atlantis, sparking theories about its trigger and including to the sport’s intrigue.
- Current discussions spotlight missed particulars within the sport’s lore that deepen the story however go away gamers disenchanted within the dealing with of the expertise.
Starfield’s improvement staff has made leaps and bounds correcting its bugs and glitches to date in 2024. Whereas we nonetheless have not seen any content-heavy patches — or a lot signal of the promised Shattered House enlargement — the builders have made fixes to a whole bunch of issues that had been plaguing its gamers because the sport’s launch in early September 2023.
Just lately, although, one participant has observed a brand new anomaly within the sport, and it is unclear whether or not that is one more drawback the nice people at Bethesda have so as to add to their to-do repair listing or one thing they put in deliberately.
Resurfaced Starfield Artwork Has Followers Reminiscing On What Might Have Been
Followers suppose the idea artwork is extremely Star Wars-esque, and never like something we’ve at present.
There’s A Gap At The Middle Of The Sky
As you possibly can see above, Reddit consumer ameliog just lately regarded up whereas within the United Colonies capital metropolis of New Atlantis and located an enormous gap within the ambiance, hovering simply above town. If it is a easy graphical glitch, it might be removed from the primary one gamers have found, as lighting points and even the picture mapping of planet surfaces have brought about issues for Starfield previously.
… it is at all times cool to see the little nuances of house journey that we would not at all times take into consideration.
However one particular person responding to the thread offered a concept that sounds much more scientifically sound, and it might level to the opening within the ambiance being an correct illustration of what would occur within the air above a metropolis with a serious spaceport.
“That my pals is a fallstreak gap brought on by supercooled water abruptly freezing after a departing ship handed by means of,” commented elquatrogrande on the Reddit thread. Now, none of us right here at DualShockers has an astroengineering diploma (theoretical or in any other case, thanks for that timeless gem, Fallout 4), but it surely appears space-jargony sufficient that it’d doubtlessly be true.
Whether it is, nicely accomplished, Bethesda! You went for a NASA-punk vibe together with your sport, and it is at all times cool to see the little nuances of house journey that we would not at all times take into consideration.
After all, each the OP and several other different individuals within the feedback had a distinct thought of what may need brought about the opening, and it could be making some individuals rethink the standard of the sport’s writing staff.
Starfield Gamers Say New Replace Made Ship Energy Allocations “Worse Not Higher”
The newest replace was supposed to deal with a difficulty with ship energy allocations, however gamers imagine it is even worse.
Grav Leaping: Does It Make Extra Sense Than We Thought?
This part accommodates spoilers for Starfield’s predominant plot.
Starfield has been the topic of heavy criticism since its launch, and its supply of its story has been one of many predominant targets of that criticism. A lot of Starfield’s lore facilities across the futuristic expertise of grav leaping, which lets ships with a grav drive leap to a different a part of the galaxy inside mere seconds.
Nonetheless, the lore goes a lot deeper than that. The creator of the expertise that made grav leaping doable, Dr. Victor Aiza, used an artifact given to him by his future self within the authentic mannequin, and the method of grav leaping close to a planet whereas utilizing certainly one of these early fashions led to the destruction of Earth’s magnetosphere, turning your entire planet into an uninhabitable, sandy desert with no ambiance.
That every one appears to be widespread information, however based mostly on the remark part, what many gamers may need missed is that Dr. Aiza knew the impact that the artifact’s extended use would have on the Earth and proceeded with it deliberately to hold out his personal devastating agenda. “It’s additionally necessary to notice that the issues within the design are deliberate,” Reddit consumer Just_A_Rose summed up succinctly within the thread. “The scientist and his future self collaborated to intentionally use this machine to kill Earth as a way to power humanity into the celebs, conveniently requiring all of them to make use of his invention to outlive cementing him in historical past because the savior of Earth, although he’s the one who killed it.”
Whereas the dealing with (and normal glossing over) of how the expertise was fastened nonetheless appears to be disappointing a whole lot of gamers, the resurfacing of data that a whole lot of gamers could have missed at the very least has them speaking once more, and because the saying goes, no publicity is unhealthy publicity.
And it began with a gap within the sky which will or might not be one more glitch.
Starfield
- Launched
- September 6, 2023