We were waiting for it, and it has arrived, the new update for Starfield is officially deployed, with a good number of new features that were greatly desired by fans.
Bethesda promised us that in 2024, Starfield would receive a number of massive updates. And the studio didn’t lie. As of today, a new patch has arrived on Steam Beta, and the changes it brings are not insignificant. On the menu, various and varied improvements and fixes. New features are also available, in short, this is excellent news for the game. Let’s see together everything that will change.
The new patch for Starfield has entered the beta phase
Small clarification before starting, the new update is not yet available to everyone. As explained above, it has entered the beta phase on the Valve platform. As a result, title holders on the latter can discover the changes in preview. The idea being to make, if desired, returns to the firm. She then takes care of refining the update or making last minute adjustments. Now that that’s said, what’s next on the agenda?
In addition to the plethora of technical problems that are tackled, we first note the addition of a functionality which allows you to harvest resources and open doors while the scanner is used. So it’s a less tedious process. In addition, we also note support for adjusting the FOV in third person view when controlling the ship. That’s not all, since there is finally the possibility of modifying the status of a mission via its interstellar car. It will go from inactive to active if you choose to go there. A great new feature that makes menu navigation more ergonomic.
However, perhaps the biggest piece is the functionality to change the facial expressions of your character and your companions in photo mode. You can change their face as you wish, make them grimace or smile, in short, you get the idea. There are even new poses that are accessible for Vasco. Well, you have to like using this somewhat special mode, otherwise, it will be of little interest to you. However, it is clear that it still enriches the experience offered by Starfield.
New Update Patch Notes
As usual, for the most curious among you, we will list all the changes implemented by the patch. We repeat, but if you don’t have Starfield on Steam, you won’t be able to access the beta. We don’t know exactly how long it will last, but normally the wait will be short. In any case, that’s what we hope.
Main features
- PHOTO MODE : Added the ability to set expressions and poses on players and companions in photo mode.
- TO SCAN : You can now open doors and harvest with the scanner open.
- Heading to an inactive quest will now make it the active quest.
- Added support for adjusting the field of view when using the third-person ship view.
- Added anisotropic filtering (PC) quality slider.
- Removed the “digipick” cost for using Undo during the security minigame.
- Added autosave when fast traveling from a planet’s surface to orbit.
- Updated the ship UI for better fluidity at higher frame rates.
As for the very very many numerous fixes (more than 400) it is difficult to draw up the complete list which you can find on the official Bethesda website. This new patch covers absolutely everything, whether it be the correction of minor user interface bugs, major graphical crashes or even the strange behavior of certain characters. Bethesda clearly didn’t do things by halves and players should certainly appreciate the maneuver.