Bethesda’s Starfield is full of things to eat or drink, from half-eaten club sandwiches to chunks of steaming alien gizzard, but getting satisfied has always been more difficult than necessary, involving a trip through the game’s irritating menus. No more ! The upcoming Starfield patch, currently available in Steam opt-in beta, will allow you to swallow things without opening your inventory, in addition to various changes to the game’s graphics and quests.
“By popular demand, we’ve added the ability to ingest food and drinks after finding them in the environment,” reads an update on the Steam page for beta update 1.8.83 from Starfield. “You can enjoy these tracks immediately or save them for later. The choice is yours.” Katharine will be delighted – she’s crazy about Chunks.
In keeping with the industry-standard “a bit of something frivolous to wash down something serious” approach to gaming updates, the new Starfield update also introduces support for Nvidia DLSS on PC.
“Compatible Nvidia graphics cards can now use DLSS Super Resolution, Deep Learning Antialiasing (DLAA), Nvidia Reflex Low Latency, and DLSS Frame Generation,” reads the blurb. “Please note: When DLSS frame generation is active, VSync must be disabled to see benefits. We are working to automatically adjust this setting in a future update.”
The addition of DLSS follows several weeks of vexing talk about a particular DLSS mod created by PureDark. The mod itself is apparently pretty good, but PureDark released part of it behind a Patreon paywall with DRM, sparking a lot of discussion about whether selling mods with copyright protection is really in the spirit of modding. Here’s James’ guide to the best Starfield PC settings if you need a refresher on how to improve graphics for optimal Starfielding.
This is of course just the tip of the loot that is the update’s changelog. Stealth is apparently “a little more forgiving”, and they fixed a bug that caused Andreja’s head to be permanently hidden. I haven’t come across that one and it seems pleasantly strange – great Halloween content, surely?
Bethesda also fixed an issue that caused NPCs to randomly appear naked, as Bethesda is a group of conformists who hate Free Love. They also changed how ambient occlusion works for ultra-wide resolutions and gave better eyes to crowd characters in the background. Regarding quests, they fixed an issue with Operation Starseed which caused the key needed to exit the facility to disappear, as well as the non-appearance of NPC David Barron during the Sabotage quest.
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