Starfield’s Biggest Patch Yet Drops Soon with Improved Lighting and Faces, Quest Fixes, More

Keeping with tradition, Bethesda’s Starfield launched with its fair share of bugs and issues, which have been steadily addressed with patches since. Bethesda has now announced Starfield’s biggest update to date will enter Steam Beta next week, with a full launch around two weeks after that. The update promises various visual improvements, fixes for various bugs affecting quests, space exploration, and more. While we don’t have full patch notes yet, Bethesda made the following promises on X.

• This update contains a multitude of fixes to Quests. Eye of the Storm issues such as being unable to dock with the Legacy or data transfer not starting, and Temples not showing up in Into the Unknown, will no longer prevent Constellation from exploring the cosmos.
• Additionally, this update brings stability improvements and numerous graphic improvements ranging from additional widescreen support to improved textures, lighting, and shadows.
• Other fixes and improvements include sun disk geometry, planet ring shadows, bulldozed objects reappearing when returning to an Outpost, ship hatches marked inaccessible, and another fix for asteroids following ships. The full update notes will be posted next week when the Steam Beta is released!

You can preview some of the changes in this comparison picture.

Additionally, this update brings stability improvements and numerous graphic improvements ranging from additional widescreen support to improved textures, lighting, and shadows. Before / After ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/aYf6V7yOKY

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

Bethesda has previously promised they plan to release updates for Starfield approximately every six weeks or so throughout 2024. Haven’t been keeping up with Starfield? Wccftech’s Francesco De Meo didn’t immediately click with the title, but eventually warmed to it, as he laid out in his full review…

“At the start of my journey in Starfield, my experience was admittedly rather dull, but as I collected more Artifacts and got involved in the sprawling sci-fi universe created by Bethesda, I started warming up the game, getting to the point that I have some difficulty putting it down. While Starfield refines more than innovates the typical Bethesda formula, it is undoubtedly one of the best games ever made by the studio and one of the year's finest titles.”

Starfield can be played on PC and Xbox Series X/S. The next update arrives on Steam Beta on January 17 and will roll out for all players a couple weeks after that in early February.

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