One of many key builders behind Starfield says he doesn’t suppose its upcoming main replace ought to be thought-about Starfield 2.0.
After months of hypothesis it was lastly introduced on Tuesday that Starfield is coming to PlayStation 5, alongside two new content material drops.
The primary, Terran Armada, is a paid story growth which introduces new characters, places, enemies, quests, techniques and rewards.
However it’s the second – Free Lanes, which shall be free to all Starfield gamers – which guarantees extra total enhancements to the sport expertise, together with interplanetary journey, new encounters, new factors of curiosity and dungeons, in addition to a brand new land car known as the Moon Jumper.
Throughout a gaggle presentation to disclose the brand new updates to press, lead artistic producer Timothy Lamb addressed the subject of whether or not Free Lanes ought to be thought-about Starfield 2.0.
Lamb defined that whereas he considers this one of the best model of Starfield to this point, he nonetheless wouldn’t consult with it as Starfield 2.0 due to the connotations that will include that.
“No. I’d push again towards that,” he mentioned (as transcribed by Wccftech). “There’s a story baked into what that label would imply. We checked out various techniques the place we had curiosity or had heard issues from the neighborhood, and we tried to stage up various them.
“Free Lanes is large, and getting it to work with all the present content material we shipped at launch was vital. However I wouldn’t name it 2.0. A lot of techniques have been made incrementally higher. We’ve added a ton of content material. It’s one of the best model of Starfield.”
Lamb additionally confirmed that Free Lanes and Terran Armada gained’t be the final items of Starfield content material launched.
“Nothing to announce in the present day, however there’s much more within the lore, issues the crew is worked up about, issues we nonetheless need to pursue,” he mentioned. “We’re nonetheless engaged on Starfield.”
Starfield shall be launched on PlayStation 5 on April 7, with Terran Armada and Free Lanes each arriving on the identical day for all codecs.
The PS5 recreation will value $49.99/£44.99 for the Normal Version and $64.99/£60.99 for the Premium Version. The Xbox and PC variations – which till Tuesday’s announcement have been $69.99 / £69.99 for the Normal Version and $99.99 / £99.99 for the Premium Version – acquired an instantaneous worth lower to match this.
