Starfield’s growth workforce has made leaps and bounds correcting its bugs and glitches thus far in 2024. Whereas we nonetheless have not seen any content-heavy patches — or a lot signal of the promised Shattered Area enlargement — the builders have made fixes to lots of of issues that had been plaguing its gamers because the recreation’s launch in early September 2023.
Not too long ago, although, one participant has observed a brand new anomaly within the recreation, and it is unclear whether or not that is one more drawback the effective people at Bethesda have so as to add to their to-do repair record or one thing they put in deliberately.
There’s A Gap At The Heart Of The Sky
As you possibly can see above, Reddit consumer ameliog just lately seemed up whereas within the United Colonies capital metropolis of New Atlantis and located a large gap within the ambiance, hovering simply above the town. If it is a easy graphical glitch, it will be removed from the primary one gamers have found, as lighting points and even the picture mapping of planet surfaces have precipitated issues for Starfield up to now.
However one particular person responding to the thread offered a idea that sounds much more scientifically sound, and it might level to the outlet within the ambiance being an correct illustration of what would occur within the air above a metropolis with a serious spaceport.
“That my pals is a fallstreak gap attributable to supercooled water abruptly freezing after a departing ship handed by way of,” commented elquatrogrande on the Reddit thread. Now, none of us right here at DualShockers has an astroengineering diploma (theoretical or in any other case, thanks for that timeless gem, Fallout 4), but it surely appears space-jargony sufficient that it’d probably be true.
Whether it is, nicely performed, Bethesda! You went for a NASA-punk vibe together with your recreation, and it is all the time cool to see the little nuances of area journey that we would not all the time take into consideration.
In fact, each the OP and several other different folks within the feedback had a unique concept of what might need precipitated the outlet, and it could be making some folks rethink the standard of the sport’s writing workforce.
Grav Leaping: Does It Make Extra Sense Than We Thought?
Starfield has been the topic of heavy criticism since its launch, and its supply of its story has been one of many primary targets of that criticism. A lot of Starfield’s lore facilities across the futuristic expertise of grav leaping, which lets ships with a grav drive soar to a different a part of the galaxy inside mere seconds.
Nonetheless, the lore goes a lot deeper than that. The creator of the expertise that made grav leaping doable, Dr. Victor Aiza, used an artifact given to him by his future self within the unique mannequin, and the method of grav leaping close to a planet whereas utilizing one among these early fashions led to the destruction of Earth’s magnetosphere, turning the complete planet into an uninhabitable, sandy desert with no ambiance.
That each one appears to be widespread information, however primarily based on the remark part, what many gamers might need missed is that Dr. Aiza knew the impact that the artifact’s extended use would have on the Earth and proceeded with it deliberately to hold out his personal devastating agenda. “It’s additionally essential to notice that the issues within the design are deliberate,” Reddit consumer Just_A_Rose summed up succinctly within the thread. “The scientist and his future self collaborated to intentionally use this machine to kill Earth in an effort to pressure humanity into the celebrities, conveniently requiring all of them to make use of his invention to outlive cementing him in historical past because the savior of Earth, despite the fact that he’s the one who killed it.”
Whereas the dealing with (and normal glossing over) of how the expertise was mounted nonetheless appears to be disappointing numerous gamers, the resurfacing of knowledge that numerous gamers could have missed no less than has them speaking once more, and because the saying goes, no publicity is unhealthy publicity.
And it began with a gap within the sky which will or is probably not one more glitch.
