Starfield's latest update lets you decorate your ship just like an outpost
Todd Howard said a lot of stuff during a recent Kinda Funny interview, including—crammed in amidst all the talk about Fallout—that a new Starfield update was being revealed this week. Today it arrived, in Steam beta as is the tradition, with an array of fixes, tweaks, and as promised, some new options for your space-buggy.
This update is not the big one, which is to say Shattered Space, the full-on Starfield expansion: Howard said that's expected to be out sometime this fall. It's still a fairly substantial update, though, with new options enabling more granular difficulty adjustment, improved surface maps that will hopefully make it easier to find your way around, improved inventory management, and a new «Ship Decoration Mode» that will let you tart up the interior of your ship the same way you do with outposts.
I'm not a Starfield player myself but that ship decorating bit feels like it's overdue. Base-building isn't my thing but I've spent more time than I care to consider carefully fiddling with the decor in my various Elder Scrolls homes, ensuring they were just so. (I'm getting an urge right now to fire up Morrowind just so I can wander around Indarys Manor.) And what is a spaceship, after all, but a base you bring with you? But proper decor demands more than just dumping your crap into a corner, especially when all that stuff ends up being shuffled off into the hold every time you change your ship design. This new mode promises to smooth out the process, and make all your deep-space Martha Stewarting a little more permanent.
New respec options for Starfield's New Game+ mode are also being added, enabling players to change their traits and appearance when heading back into the game. Xbox Series X players will also have access to new display options, allowing them to set frame rate targets and prioritize visual quality or performance.
«The team isn't slowing down with this update,» Bethesda said on Steam. «There are some major features on the horizon,
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