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Starfield “Free Lanes” is now available for all platforms, bringing many recent features, DLC, fixes, and quality of life improvements without charge to players. To say that the developers have put effort into giving back to their community with this free update is an understatement. From recent weapons and armor to recent long-requested planetary travel modes, a brand new vehicle, and player houses, there’s somewhat little bit of all the things in Free Lanes.
April 7 also marks the arrival of Starfield on the PlayStation 5, bringing the total game with all major updates up to now released, including Free Lanes. Support for the DualSense controller and its adaptive triggers gives players greater control in choosing weapons and experiencing their unique designs. Bethesda has also released the Terran Armada $9.99 paid DLC (free for premium edition owners), adding a brand new story for players to explore. More on it could possibly be found here.
Features
- Free Lanes: The player can now use cruise mode to travel in open space or to POI locations between planets inside a star system.
- Added X-Tech crafting support to Weapons and Armor. This permits players to further customize the legendary effects on their equipment.
- Added Additional Quality Tiers to weapons and suits.
- Added Rank 4 Legendary effects for weapons and suits.
- Added Upgrade modules. These might be installed to enhance one attribute of a weapon or Suit.
- Added Latest weapon skins that might be applied to pick out weapons at a workbench.
- Added a buildable ship optimization terminal. The player can spend X-Tech to enhance several attributes of their ship.
- Added Ship Equipment schematics. This recent equipment might be added within the ship builder after it’s discovered.
- Added Legendary Enemy Modifiers. Legendary enemies can now appear with recent modifiers that make them more difficult.
- Added Legendary Enemy Modifiers settings into Gameplay Options, so players can adjust once they start appearing.
- Added Quantum Entanglement Device. This offers players the power to transfer some items once they decide to undergo the Unity.
- Starborn Powers can now be upgraded with Quantum Essence.
- Quantum Essence can now be added to the Favorites menu to for quick access.
- Starborn ships now reward the player with Quantum Essence when destroyed.
- Added the Database menu which allows for higher location, resource, and recipe tracking based on character’s knowledge of the Settled Systems.
- Added Outpost Quality of life improvements equivalent to a Shared Outpost Container (allowing players to deal with and access inventory from various outpost locations), Production Rate information, and a more precise placement mode.
- Latest vehicle: Moon Jumper.
- Added recent Player House – “Château des Étoiles”.
- Added Colony Wars Motion Heroes which give advantages when found.
- Added Colony War Motion Heroes display cases as buildable objects.
- Muria Siarkiewicz is now available to affix player crew.
- Added an extra third person Ship Camera distance that permits more of the ship to be visible.
- Added All the time Show Landing Camera setting for many who need to see their ship land at known locations.
- Added Anchorpoint Station, a brand new POI that might be present in the Algorab system.
- Added Latest Dungeons, Space Encounters, and Points of Interest throughout the sport.
- Adjusted the distribution and cooldown timers for placement of points of interest on Planets.
- Added additional photomode poses for the Rev-8.
- Terran Armada DLC Now Available.
General
- Steam – Disabled DLC will now not re-install when launching the sport.
- General crash and stability fixes.
Gameplay
- Improved loot present in containers with Expert and Master level locks.
- Reactive Equipment – Resolved a problem with the sound effects for the Reactive legendary effect.
- Addressed a problem that might cause NPCs to calculate weapon damage inconsistently.
- Fixed a problem with CombaTech magazine accuracy bonuses not applying consistently.
- The player can now jump while reloading the XM-2311, Old Earth Pistol, and Livingstone’s Pistol.
- Bounty targets in cities should now be properly interactable.
- Resolved a problem that might potentially cause non-combat background music to now not play.
- Photo Mode – Addressed a problem that might cause issues when entering photomode while also entering an interior.
- Photo Mode – Addressed a problem that might cause the player’s right foot to display awkwardly.
Quests
- Friends Like These – Players should now give you the chance to return the Terrormorph data at the top of the hunt.
- Guilty Parties – Addressed a problem where this quest could possibly not start after completing “Background Checks”.
- Missed Beyond Measure – Addressed a problem that might cause the player to be locked with an invalid companion.
- One Giant Leap – The player’s helmet should now be visible.
- Refurbished Goods – All weapons required by the hunt should now give you the chance to be found.
- Refurbished Goods – Turning on this quest will now not take incorrect items from the player’s inventory.
- The Hammer Falls – Addressed a problem that might cause the player to not receive the Star Eagle ship upon completion.
- Two Tales, Two Cities – Addressed a situation where the player could potentially be control locked if selecting to arrest Tahir.
Locations
- Resolved a problem that might cause some beds in Akila City to not grant Rested Bonus as intended.
- Characters should now appropriately sit in chairs within the Explorer’s Refuge.
UI
- Improved and issue that might make Weapons Workbenches difficult to position in houses or ships.
- Added visual improvements to the Ship Repair UI.
- Ship Builder – Addressed a problem that might prevent unique or stolen ships from being renamed.
- Ship Builder – Resolved a problem that might cause a reproduction model of a ship to persist on the landing pad after modifying it.
- Ship Builder – Hopetech All-In-One Berth 2×2 furnished version is now accessible in game.
- Ship Builder – Improvements to UI in Large Font Mode.
- Outpost – Improvements to UI in Large Font mode.
- Players can now use the escape key to back out of renaming an item in a workbench. (PC)
- Fixed a typo with the Scan Jammer’s description.
Shattered Space
- The Oracle has updated music.
Creations
- A Perfect Recipe: Resolved a problem that might prevent the Ashta from spawning.
- Updated the outline for Plushie Andreja.
- At Hell’s Gate: Plushies can now be placed in Plushie cases.
- The “Plushie Case – Mount” can now be placed closer to the “Plushie Case – Stackable” variant.
- Allied Winter Camo Skins will now show up on the Creation menu when installed.
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