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SomeStarfieldplayers started calling for Bethesda to add the ability to build space stations to the hit RPG. And though that’s far from the onlyidea thatStarfieldfans pitchedto the developer since the game’s release, some newly emerged evidence suggests that the studio might yet grant them this particular wish.
Settlement building proved to be such a huge draw of 2015’sFallout 4that Bethesda doubled down on this feature withFallout 76three years later. The company’s latest game continues that trend, withStarfieldallowing players to build and link two dozen outpostsacross the settled systems and beyond.
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A vocal enough portion of the player base would also like to see space station building in the RPG that this idea recently found its way to the front page of the r/Starfield subreddit. “We all want it,” Reddit user JanJaapen wrote in a thread with thousands of upvotes, clarifying that they are hoping for this feature to be officially included in the game instead of being left to modders so that everyone gets to experience such an obvious addition toStarfield.
And while plenty of fans already sharedideas forStarfieldthat Bethesda almost certainly won’t act upon, that might not necessarily be the fate of this particular proposal. Namely, Reddit user shmid9804 recently stumbled upon a number of unused space station assets while tinkering with the game’s console, including walls, docking ports, solar panel-equipped satellites, and many other structures that players might expect to be able to build in outer space. Some fans took this as a sign that space station building could still make its way toStarfield, although that assumption is a fairly big leap to make based on a few unused assets.
The majority of the discovered models are unfinished, which raises a somewhat-more-feasible possibility that space station building was simply cut from the final product. Many games ship with unused assets made for features that ended up on the chopping block, with Bethesda titles being no exception to that practice, as underlined by the prevalence of popular content restoration mods for every one of its single-player RPGs sinceThe Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind.
Nevertheless, the prospect of space station building inStarfieldshouldn’t be ruled out just yet, at least not until the game’s entire post-launch content roadmap is made official. Bethesda has so far only revealed one piece of news on that front, havingconfirmed thatStarfield’sfirst expansion will be called Shattered Spaceback in June.
Starfieldis available now for PC and Xbox Series X/S.
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