Summary
Starfield’sbiggest update yet is out now, overhauling thoseinfamous surface mapsand adding new ways to customise your ship among a slew of other highly-requested features.
Maps are now far more detailed, and one of the examples given (which you can see pictured above) is New Atlantis. It’s now a 3D model with icons placed at their corresponding locations, making it easier to see where you are or where you want to be. There are even new markers in major cities that show the locations of vendors. So, to save time, you can fast travel to them directly.
Going into new game plus, you can now change your traits and appearance to try different playstyles with each run.
The other major draw of this update is that you can customise the interior of your ship much as you would an outpost, making it feel more like a home base. You can decorate existing modules by adding furniture or decor, and even alter doorways to change the ship’s layout. Alternatively, you can add new empty hab modules to start from scratch.
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Starfield Update 1.11.36 Also Adds New Difficulty Options And Quality-Of-Life Settings
In the gameplay options tab, you’re able to now increase vendor credits and carry capacity, access your ship cargo through your inventory, and toggle several survival effects like food and environmental hazards.
Another big change is that you can alter the difficulty of space and on-the-ground combat separately, making ship battles easier while your usual planetary gunfights are harder–or vice-versa.
Bethesda also revealed that it’sworking on driveable land vehiclesfor a future update.
As for quality-of-life options, you can now turn the Bethesda dialogue camera off so that you aren’t zoomed into an NPC face every time you talk to them. The team has also added new tabs to container and barter menus to make the inventory more intuitive.
This update is live now, so if you want to dive back into Starfield and see what’s changed first-hand, you can.
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Starfield is the first new IP from Bethesda in a quarter of a century, launched for the next-gen Xbox Series X|S and PC. Taking place outside our own Solar System, you play a member of the Constellation, a collective of explorers set on discovering new worlds.
