Starfield’s subsequent replace will enhance the photograph mode so you’ll be able to lastly smile fairly in your photos

A brand new Starfield replace is headed for Steam beta subsequent week, with a deal with quality-of-life enhancements and bug fixes: The scanner is getting an improve, mission monitoring is being improved, and you may lastly have the ability to smile in your pictures.

Detailed patch notes will not be revealed till subsequent week, however Bethesda hit the highlights in a sequence of tweets. The replace will change the scanner so you’ll be able to proceed to make use of it when you’re harvesting sources or opening doorways, and setting a course on an inactive mission within the mission tracker will robotically make it energetic.

Sensible enhancements are nice, however my favourite of the bunch is a wholly beauty change: Expressions are coming to photograph mode.

“Now you may make your character and your companions match the temper of your shot,” Bethesda tweeted. “And Vasco is getting some new poses, too.”

It is a temper, alright:

A bug that was inflicting David Barron to go lacking within the Sabotage mission can even be corrected, as will one which brought on gamers’ heads to show left whereas sprinting, and one other that was conserving Starborn Temples from showing correctly.

There apparently will not be any new content material on this replace, however Bethesda mentioned it is on the point of begin including extra later this 12 months. The studio mentioned on the finish of 2023 that main adjustments to Starfield had been coming in 2024, together with “survival mechanics” and “all-new methods of travellng,” with updates anticipated to roll out roughly each six weeks, starting in February. Thus far, although, the main target has been virtually solely on the technical facet of issues, like bug fixes, gameplay tweaks, and help for FSR3 upscaling, which went dwell final week.

That is all good—Starfield may definitely use the work—however what followers are actually hungry for is extra stuff to really do, and to date that hasn’t occurred. It has been six months because the launch of Starfield, which is not an enormous period of time, however solely 9 months separated the discharge of Skyrim and its first growth, Dawnguard—and so far, Starfield actually would not appear to have the endurance of Skyrim. Official modding instruments would possible go a great way towards filling that individual gap, however whereas that is been promised for 2024, a launch date has not but been introduced.

The subsequent Starfield replace is ready to go dwell in Steam beta on March 6.