Starfield Update 1.14.70 Launches Alongside Shattered Space

Bethesda Softworks has released Starfield update 1.14.70, timed perfectly with the launch of the highly anticipated Shattered Space expansion. This update aims to enhance the overall gaming experience, addressing various bugs and glitches, and preparing the base game for the new content. The patch notes cover a range of improvements, including gameplay tweaks, quest fixes, and visual enhancements.

Starfield Update 1.14.70

This update, released alongside the Shattered Space expansion, brings numerous improvements to the game.

Features

• Creation Kit Enhancements: The automated process for generating distant LOD (Level of Detail) models for creations is now available, likely improving performance in vast environments.

General Improvements

• Performance & Stability: General performance and stability have been improved, aiming to reduce frame rate issues and ensure smoother gameplay.
• Creation Loading: The limit on loaded creations has been increased from 255, reducing potential loading problems.
• Lighting & Visuals: Lighting has been adjusted and enhanced in several areas of the game, likely improving visual appeal and immersion.
• Weapon Model Fixes: Visual improvements and bug fixes have been implemented for weapon models, ensuring weapon displays are accurate.
• Head Tracking & Camera: Improvements have been made to player head tracking during dialogue and camera stability when jumping, improving overall gameplay flow.

Gameplay Enhancements

• Annihilator Particle Beam: The Annihilator Particle Beam’s damage-over-time effect now only affects the player and not companions.
• EM Weapon Damage: Robots and turrets now take damage from Energy weapons.
• Crafting Fix: An issue with the “The Boom Pop!” Dynamite recipe has been resolved.
• Companions & Dialogue: The companion, Autumn Macmillan, will no longer repeat herself when inquiring about her sister.
• New Atlantis Combat: Issues with crowd behavior near the New Atlantis Spaceport elevator during combat have been rectified.

Quest Fixes

Numerous quest-related bugs have been addressed.

• Brownout, Due In Full, Eye Witness, Hostile Intelligence, In Memoriam, and More: Specific bugs within these missions have been fixed, ensuring smooth progression.

Location Fixes

Several locations within the game have received visual and collision fixes.

• Specific locations (Akila, Biotic Lab, Mantis Lair, etc.): Numerous fixes for textures, collisions, and visual inconsistencies.

Ship, Vehicle & UI Enhancements

Fixes were implemented across various aspects of the Starfield experience.

• Ship Builder: Additional toggles for ship construction, audio fixes, and ship deletion issues have been resolved.
• Ship Sales: Preventing the sale of non-sellable ships to vendors has been fixed.
• Vehicle Controls & Interface: Fixes to gamepad controls, display issues with vehicle elements, and vehicle fast travel distances.
• UI Enhancements: User interface improvements include issues with text displays, menu functionality, save loading, and various UI inconsistencies.

Audio Improvements

• Audio Adjustments: Increased center channel audio usage for surround sound setups, and a resolution to repeated power allocation audio issues with one power allocation.
• Voice Filtering: Ecliptic Mercenary voices now use consistent filtering across all languages.

Shattered Space Expansion

This latest Starfield content update provides a new adventure with the introduction of the Shattered Space expansion.

Shattered Space, released on September 30th, offers players an entirely new narrative arc focused on the home world of House Va’ruun. It delves into the mysteries surrounding the followers of the Great Serpent. Critically, the expansion steers clear of the typical Starfield planetary exploration, remaining entirely focused on the Va’ruun home world. This is a significant shift for players accustomed to traversing the vast and often empty space of Starfield.

This update and expansion are designed to provide a smoother, more immersive experience for Starfield players.