Starfield Shattered Space Expansion Lands On Sept 30 & New Details Have Been Revealed

Exactly one year ago, Starfield allowed explorers the ability to travel the Settled Systems and today, Shattered Space has revealed new details ahead of the Sept 30 launch.

Starfield has been available to add to gamer libraries for exactly one year now, and on this big birthday, Bethesda has taken the liberty of pulling back the curtain on a few key details surrounding the first expansion of Starfield, Shattered Space . For weeks, Bethesda has been teasing the upcoming expansion release until today on Starfield ‘s birthday, where they’ve given a few more details including a release date that takes off at the end of the month.

Starfield: Shattered Space New Details

• For the expansion, Starfield has drawn in the boundaries of Settled Systems exploration so there is a more refined experience on one planet, rather than the need to explore many planets and have smaller experiences on each. This responds to many player’s feedback on the issues surrounding loading screens.
• New grenade weapons can be crafted from harvested organic materials, and Bethesda promises “it’s gross”.
• The Crimson Fleet, Zealot, and Spacer menace present in the base Starfield title will also appear in Shattered Space , marking a familiar enemy in an unfamiliar territory.
• Bethesda boasts 50 new locations will be added to the map, and new formidable enemies will populate the area aside from the standard enemy fare, and they’re called Redeemed and Vortex Horrors.

Starfield appears to be correcting many of the issues players faced with the base game in Shattered Space. This includes the aforementioned loading screens (which double as spaceship docking cutscenes), and the feeling that players continuously explore the same planet multiple times with the same structures littering each landscape. Shattered Space discards the need for that, and places most content in one sandbox rather than spread across many sandboxes, allowing a bigger game experience in a smaller setting.

Starfield: Shattered Space launches on September 30.