Although it’s not everybody’s cup of tea, Starfield actually has made a reputation for itself amongst gaming audiences. The developer, Bethesda, is fortunately not dropping its post-launch updates anytime quickly. The sport’s newest replace is about to get a beta very, very quickly, in actual fact.

As Bethesda promised late in 2023, Starfield is because of obtain main, significant patches each six weeks or so in 2024. This enchancment to the sport’s updating cadence received’t be dropping in till someday in February, however the excellent news is that Bethesda’s plans for the interim replace are extra substantial than we’d’ve anticipated. On high of the same old suite of bug fixing, for instance, we’re as a consequence of obtain an entire assortment of graphical enhancements besides.

Subsequent week, on January 17, we’ll be placing our greatest @StarfieldGame replace but into Steam Beta with over 100 fixes and enhancements, with a deliberate launch date for all gamers two weeks later. Right here’s a few of what you’ll be able to count on: pic.twitter.com/IPpVjuG5OQ

— Bethesda Sport Studios (@BethesdaStudios) January 12, 2024

Starfield’s first replace of 2024 is promising, however not groundbreaking

Actually, Bethesda’s plans for Starfield‘s official updates are hardly as thrilling as one modder’s plight to develop pilotable mechs, however they’re pretty promising in their very own proper. On high of fixing some actually notorious bugs, resembling these sticky asteroids and inaccessible ship hatches, Bethesda additionally seems to be engaged on a number of attention-grabbing graphical enhancements for Starfield.

As per Bethesda’s clarification, gamers can count on “improved textures, lighting, and shadows” within the recreation, in addition to enhancements to solar disk geometry and the rendering of planet ring shadows. Objects torn right down to construct up outposts will not pop again up, both, which was a royal ache when constructing on steep terrain and the like. Additional, “extra widescreen help” is being touted as nicely, although there’s no phrase but on what, precisely, that could be referring to.

Which means the “new methods of touring” replace isn’t on Bethesda’s docket simply but, however we’re nonetheless taking a look at some pretty promising enhancements right here.

A lot as was the case with Starfield‘s DLSS replace, the primary patch of 2024 will first be accessible in beta kind by way of Steam, beginning on January 17. Bethesda claims we’ve acquired “over 100 fixes and enhancements” to sit up for, and the truth that it’s all coming in comparatively quickly is sweet information certainly, and a strong begin of the yr for Starfield. Let’s see if Bethesda can hold this up.