Starfield fans are convinced that the plot of the RPG's Shattered Space DLC is hiding in plain sight
May. 2, 2024Is Shattered Space all about House Va’ruun?
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A bigStarfieldupdate lands this month, and the video teasing that patch might have just revealed the plot of theStarfield Shattered SpaceDLC.
Towards the end of the video introducing Starfield’s May update, which you can see below, there’s a montage showcasing various Bethesda devs working on upcoming content for the game. In one shot (at the4:50 mark), we see a screen displaying a particularly wild-looking alien landscape as a dev moves around a few towers on the map.
It did not take long for fans to zoom way in on the text displayed on screen and realize that these objects are all labeled “Varuun.” That, of course, references one of the bigStarfield religionsin House Va’ruun, the strange cult that worships an apparently quite bloodthirsty god called the Great Serpent. This discovery generated posts with titles like"It’s confirmed Shattered Space is a House Varuun DLC."
“Confirmed” might be stretching it, but it’s looking like a safe bet Shattered Space will focus on House Va’ruun in some notable way. The story of the cult never really fully came to a conclusion in the base game, and players have been speculating for ages that they’d be a big factor in Shattered Space. Plus, a setting with that strange purple sky and weird alien effects seems like just the kind of thing to generate intrigue for a big expansion pack.
Todd Howard says Shattered Space is set to launch this fall, and it’s likely we’ll get a meaty look at it as part of theXbox Games Showcase in June. In the meantime, the big May update is going to includenew difficulty options, a60 FPS performance mode on console, and somelong-awaited improvements to the RPG’s maps.
Starfield’s May update just convinced me to try this RPG again, and all it took was proper maps and The Sims-like ship decorating.
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