Starfield players are being haunted by asteroids

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Over the weekend, Starfield players began to share reports of a strange paranormal infestation. There are asteroids in the game that, for reasons known only to gods and/or programmers, follow you from orbit to orbit, flying eerily in formation with your ship, and sometimes even accompanying you to a planet's surface. "In one of my weirdest Bethesda glitch experiences, I've got a tiny asteroid that's been following me for the past 30 hours," user ReverendRoo posted on Reddit, triggering an avalanche of comments reminiscent of UFO chasers spotting each other at a NASA open day. "I would catch a glimpse of it from time to time," wrote fattfett. "I tried to approach it but you can't. It stays away. I assumed it had a deeper meaning [toward] the endgame." Some players, like Blackdius, have multiple asteroids in tow. It seems impossible to blow them up. I've dug up a Youtube video below of one such clingy space boulder from a couple of weeks back. As you can see, it's not just a fixed background point like a screen artefact, but seems to move in response to the player's ship. Most peculiar.

The unromantic explanation for all this is that it's some kind of memory issue, possibly addressable by clearing your cache. You can also make use of Starfield console commands to purge your screen of the thing, as described by redditor PhotogenicEwok in the ReverendRoo thread. "If you're on PC, open the console, click on the rock, and type disable. It doesn't technically get rid of the rock, just makes it invisible and removes its collision, but it'll do for now." But it's just possible that asteroid hangers-on in Starfield have some kind of wider lore or plot significance - without spoiling too much, the game's NG+ options embrace the