Bethesda revealed the details of Starfield Update 1.11.33 which brings new features including improved surface maps, new gameplay and difficulty options, ship decorations, and more!
Under “Gameplay Options” in Settings, there are now a lot of sliders that you can use to customize your Starfield difficulty and experience.
The following settings go from Easy to Very Hard.
Sets whether Ammo is weightless or has weight.
Carry Capacity
Cargo Access Distance
Vendor Credits
Note: this will occur only after a vendor’s inventory restocks (about once a week).
Sets how many credits vendors have to purchase items.
Medical Item Healing
Sets how Med Packs, Trauma Packs, and Emergency Kits restore health.
Food Healing
Sleep Healing
Sustenance
Sets how food and drink grant Sustenance effects
Combat Affliction Gain
Affliction Treatment
Sets how treatments work on Afflictions
Affliction Prognosis
Sets how Prognosis affects an Affliction’s chance to improve and cure, and adds a chance to worsen or gain infections while Prognosis is “Poor.”
Environmental Damage & Afflictions
Sets how Environmental Damage and Afflictions are gained from the environment.
Environmental Damage Restoration
Save on Rest
Save on Wait
Save on Travel
Apart from the custom difficulty, this Starfield update adds a lot more things and fixes a ton of bugs.
Note that these changes are only currently on Steam Beta, but Bethesda has said that they “don’t anticipate much to change from this update” for the version that ships to other platforms.
Improved surface maps
“We’ve heard your feedback, and we’ve made some big improvements to surface maps, so you’ll always know just where to go and no longer “get lost” on the way to your parents’ place (and they weren’t buying that excuse anyway, you should really go visit them).”
This change improves the “Map” function of the planet tiles. It will now show a scale model of the planet, the points of interest, and other things you might want to see. This clears up navigation a lot.
Decorate your Ships
Added Ship Decoration mode to the interior of Ships – now you can decorate your ships just like you can with Outposts!
Easier Inventory
Added Tabs to Container menus to make managing your inventory easier.
Change your Traits in New Game+
Added the ability to change Traits and appearance after entering the Unity.
Other Additions
Added Dialogue camera toggle in the Settings.
Added Display settings for Xbox Series X to prioritize Visuals or Performance (Series X).
Frame Rate Target: You can now choose between 30, 40, 60 or an Uncapped frame rate on VRR displays. If you do not have a VRR display running 120hz, you will still be able to select from 30 or 60. Screen tearing may occur at times when selecting 60 on a non-VRR display.
Prioritize: You can now prioritize between Visuals and Performance while trying to maintain the frame rate target. If you’re choosing a frame rate target of 60 or above, we recommend changing this to Performance. Prioritizing Visuals keeps the highest resolution while maintaining full detail for special effects, lighting, and crowds. Prioritizing Performance lowers internal resolution and detail for special effects, lighting, and crowds. Both modes may adjust internal resolution dynamically when scenes or action get heavier as well. When switching between modes, you will see the lighting change briefly as the system catches up to the new mode.
General
Gameplay
Graphics
Outposts
Quests
The Starfield Update 1.11.33 with the difficulty customization is now live on Steam Beta.
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