The Shattered Space expansion for Starfield is now available, and Bethesda has released update 1.14.70 to get the space RPG ready.
The patch notes have been shared further X/Twitter and cover the main Starfield, not just its expansion. While some of the points are pretty standard and include “overall performance and stability improvements,” others are more pleasant. For example, “Autumn Macmillan no longer repeats herself when asking about her sister.”
Also fixed are countless bugs related to missions such as Brownout, Due In Full, Eye Witness, Hostile Intelligence, In Memoriam, and many others. Bethesda has also made many changes to specific areas of the game, improving textures and more.
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The Shattered Space expansion arrived today, September 30, and adds a slice of recent story to the sci-fi RPG. According to the official synopsis, players will be able to “travel to the home world of House Va’ruun for the first time, explore a hand-crafted new location, and uncover the mysteries surrounding the followers of the Great Serpent.”
Those who are frustrated by the base game’s over a thousand, mostly abandoned planets will also be relieved to hear that Shattered Space never sends players off-planet. “You can leave the film at any time, but the story is entirely focused on life in the home world of Va’ruun,” lead original producer Tim Lamb said in September.
Those looking to dive deeper into the expansion can check out IGN’s guide to all the space obstacles Bethesda is sending players through ahead of the expansion’s launch.
Starfield Update 1.14.70
Characteristics
- Creation Kit: The automated process used to create models for Distant LOD is now available
General
- Overall performance and stability improvements
- Fixed an issue that confined the number of creatives loaded to 255
- Lighting changes and improvements have been introduced in the game
- Made several visual improvements and bug fixes for weapon models
- Improved player head tracking when exiting dialogue
- The player’s camera should no longer be hit when jumping
Game
- Annihilator Particle Beam’s temporal effect no longer affects Companions
- Robots and turrets will now take damage from EM weapons
- Crafting: Resolved an issue with The Boom Pop! Dynamite recipe
- Elite Crew: Autumn Macmillan no longer repeats herself when asking about her sister
- Resolved an issue with crowd behavior near the Well elevator in the New Atlantis Spaceport after combat begins
Tasks
- Brownout: Resolved a progression issue after talking to Joyce Osaka in New Homestead
- Due In Full: Resolved a scarce issue with the Delinquet spaceship spawning
- Eyewitness: The player can no longer enter a destroyed ship on the spaceport landing pad
- Hostile Intelligence: Fixed an issue that could cause the door to the Security Office to be inaccessible if they quickly left and waited during this quest objective
- In Memoriam: Fixed an issue that could prevent progress during the “Talk to Sarah” objective that took place near a waterfall
- In Memoriam: Fixed an issue that could prevent the “Go to Cassiopeia I” objective from being completed if the planet had already been visited
- Pack Leader: Fixed an issue that could prevent Ashta Alpha from being aggressive
- Legacy’s End: Resolved an issue that could prevent interaction with Delgado if he sided with SysDef
- End of Legacy: Released Crimson Fleet prisoners will no longer target Ikande after obtaining weapons
- Asset Management: Resolved a scarce issue that could prevent Tomo from appearing in Paradiso
- One Giant Leap: Fixed a bug that could cause music to play incorrectly during the Unity scene
- One giant leap: Resolved an audio issue that could occur during the end credits
- One miniature step: resolved a scarce camera issue that could occur if the first Crimson Fleet ship in the tutorial boards
- Revelation: Resolved an issue with quest objective consistency in the final encounter
- Rook Meets King: Dmitri Moldavski will now react as intended if Austin Rake dies during an encounter
- Rook Meets King: Resolved an issue where one of Ragana’s crew members was using incorrect weapon animations
- Hard Landing: Fixed a scarce bug that caused Milena Axelrod’s ship to spawn
- The Best There Is: Resolved an issue that could prevent Huan from progressing to the Jade Swan after the first encounter
- The Best There Is: Jade Swan is now available if the player still has the “Search and Capture” quest energetic
- The best that exists: Fixed an issue that could make it complex to locate the UC detector because it was very far away
- Showdown: Resolved an issue that could cause the Strikers Hangout door to remain open closed
Locations
- Akila: Updated some textures in Slums
- Akila: Resolved collision issue with bunk beds
- Abandoned Biotic Lab: Fixed missing panels on the outdoor floor
- Mantis Lair: Resolved a minor texture issue that could appear on some panels
- London Steam Tunnels: Fixed a collision in the area that could allow players to move out of the area
- Maheo I: Closed an open gap on the roof of Sonny Di Falco’s mansion
- Neon: Nyx’s Apartment: Fixed a collision issue in the area
- Neon: Resolved a collision issue with grated panels in Ebbside
- New Atlantis: Removed miniature areas where water in the lake north of New Atlantis could appear to cut through the terrain
- Staryard Stroud-Eklund: area collision fixed
- Clinic: Resolved a visual issue that could appear in Dr. Cassidy’s office
- Red Mile: Resolved collision issue under platforms in final area
Ships
- Ship Builder: A recent option has been added to the game settings to toggle the apply of the Reverse Connect behavior
- Shipbuilder: Fixed an audio issue that could occur when removing hab
- Shipbuilder: Fixed a crash that could occur when modifying a ship containing an energetic mine
- Resolved an issue that could allow ships that could not be sold to be sold to sellers
Vehicle
- Fixed an issue with the Make energetic option in the vehicle menu when using a gamepad
- Fixed an issue with the position of wheel visual effects
- Fixed an issue with opening the Favorites menu when entering a vehicle
- Nameplates and health bars will now be displayed permanently in the vehicle
- Gaze sensitivity settings will now affect the vehicle’s camera
- Kaiser and Vasco will no longer sit in the Rev-8 when following the player
- The vehicle icon will no longer appear on indoor maps
- Vehicle lights will no longer automatically turn on when loading a save
- Vehicle speedy travel distance is now consistent with other POIs and landed ships
User interface
- Xbox Display Settings: Fixed an issue where setting the FPS target to 60 would automatically revert the priority back to performance
- Removed the debug string that was displayed when submitting Xbox game saves to Customer Support
- Updated the Skills menu to fix an issue with enormous font mode in some languages
- Resources with long names are now truncated when scanned in enormous font mode
- Fixed an issue with enormous font mode in the trade menu when selling enormous quantities of items
- Temporary text will no longer be displayed if you quickly select “Continue” from the main menu
- Ship registration costs will now display the exact amount on both vendors and the hangar menu
- Fixed weight display when selling items from ship cargo
- Where applicable, skill challenge pop-ups will now have truncated text instead of reduced text
- Fixed an issue where gravity wells would appear in the mission menu when opening it from the Star Chart
- Location names and quest objectives will now be properly truncated on the planet map
- The Creations store title is displayed in full in all languages
- A message will appear when attempting to load a save where the song is not available on the current platform
- If weapon skinning is disabled, the weapon menu will display its original skin by default
- Fixed an issue with sorting high scores in the Works menu
- Fixed incorrect notification about insufficient credits when an extremely enormous number of credits were available
- Ammo count should now display correctly for values above 100,000
- The damage popup can now display numbers larger than 4 digits
- Resolved an issue caused by aiming down while robbing a character
- The crew menu will now display correctly when someone is assigned to a player’s house
- The repair button is no longer evident in the hangar inspection menu
- Fixed a waiting issue that could briefly cause unintended text to appear
- Healing items now display a preview of the amount of health restored
- Storage bins will now update their weight when all items have been removed from them
- After docking at the space station, the ship marker in the scanner will display in the correct place
- The prompt to confirm creation is now properly placed for longer titles
- Tunneling creatures will no longer show their nameplates or quest objectives while tunneling
- Scanner Anomalies can now be targeted for landing when piloting a ship in orbit
Audio
- Increased apply of center channel audio in surround sound setups
- Fixed an issue that could cause the power allocation sound to play repeatedly when the engine system was damaged due to a single power allocation
- Ecliptic Mercenary voices now apply the same filtering in all languages
Ryan Dinsdale is a freelance reporter for IGN. He will talk about The Witcher all day long.
