Shattered Space Has The Chance To Improve Starfield’s Best New Feature

A year after 's original launch, Bethesda Game Studios is gearing up for the game's first major expansion, on September 30, 2024. The new DLC will lean into a horror aesthetic as players venture to the previously unseen planet of Va'ruun'kai, home to the Great Serpent-worshipping House Va'ruun after some experiments have left it in a state of disarray.

While this expansion was announced prior to 's initial launch and was used as an incentive to buy the Digital Deluxe or Constellation Editions of the game, Bethesda has spent the year in between adding different features to the game. These include more tools for the ship builder that offer players a way to customize the interiors of their crafts to make it feel more like a mobile home for their characters, and the new REV-8 land vehicle, adding some much-needed quicker traversal to the game.

As confirmed in a recent preview of, the entire expansion will take place on Va'ruun'kai, which will feature mainly handcrafted environments, rather than the planet's wider star system with other procedurally generated planets. Because of this, the REV-8 update, which launched alongside the Gamescom 2024 trailer for, couldn't have come at a better time, as exploring the new planet would have been a far more time-consuming venture otherwise.

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Of course, while the REV-8 alone is a great addition, the new situation Va'ruun'kai has found itself in, with new Vortexes opening and changed land-types due to Grav Drive technology experiments, means Bethesda has the opportunity to improve upon its land vehicles even further. Whether this would include even more vehicles, or some kind of further customization options, is entirely up to Bethesda, but the core mechanics for customization are already in place through the game's ship manufacturers and ship builder, as different manufacturers have very