Starfield: Shattered Space Achievement List Suggests DLC Is Fixing A Major Issue

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is an incredibly ambitious game, letting players travel to and explore more than 1,000 planets and moons, but it's not without faults. That massive scope itself has become a major critique – instead of the densely packed, heavily curated worlds Bethesda is traditionally known to produce, randomly generates plots of land for players to wander in. While the technology itself is admirably applied, the space RPG can often feel lacking in variety outside its main questlines, an issue that the upcoming expansion seemingly hopes to solve, hinted at by its achievement list.

Over a year after the game's initial launch, arrives to bring the faithful more content, including a follow-up story to one of the base game's largest mysteries: House Va'ruun. Multiple updates have brought improvements to the game since launch, but is expected to be a more typical Bethesda expansion. Its narrative is set to take players to a brand-new world, and will conceivably be a rather robust batch of content, if previous expansions to and are any indication.

A month ahead of 's release, the expansion's achievements were added to Steam (screenshot courtesy of Reddit user TERABIT). While most appear to be awarded for completing certain quests, one notably revolves around the DLC's main setting, the planet of Va'ruun Kai. The achievement, titled "," is given to players who "," the mysterious homeworld of House Va'ruun, the religious sect that worships a deity known as the Great Serpent.

While Va'ruun Kai will likely take advantage of 's procedurally generated content – it's unreasonable to expect an entire hand-crafted planet – The Great Unknown achievement is a promising glimpse into how dense will be. If named buildings are considered discoverable locations (those in the base game are after the game updated its previously useless surface maps), then even the bustling city of New Atlantis barely surpasses the 50 threshold with all of its named buildings across all five of its districts.

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