The Rover Is Here and Shattered Space Arrives 30 Sep: Starfield Essentials

[@kardeon4503]

The rover is more than I was expected. It is very fun, especially with the 2 boosters. Very good update

[@RichardBejtlich]

Agreed. I hope we can mod the boost in CK.

[@IceBoNeZ]

For me the Rover would be more for getting from one (unexplored) ship landing site to another more quickly, so I'm not taking so much environmental damage from the long slow trips accross landscapes on foot..👍🏼

[@IceBoNeZ]

"We don't need roads!"

[@RichardBejtlich]

That makes sense. I wonder if the rover counts as an enclosed space?

[@RichardBejtlich]

Right on! 👍

[@johnroberts838]

Thank you Richard 👍👍👍

[@RichardBejtlich]

You're welcome John! 👍

[@SiNKiLLeR_]

They did a great job for Bethesda. Great coverage bro :)

[@RichardBejtlich]

TYVM captain! 🙏

[@mattcrazy7070]

This is the bare minimum for Bethesda

[@Normal_People]

Woo! It's so fun!

[@RichardBejtlich]

💯💯💯

[@elaron2537]

We don't need roads, we've got the Mako's spiritual successor! Thanks for the video, I'm very happy to see this update. It'll be a couple of days before I dive in though, as I added a couple of SFSE dependent mods to my load order (most notably the "Luma - Native HDR and more" mod). Also greatly looking forward to Shattered Space, considering what tidbits we've had for it. Diving into what makes House Var'uun tick is going to be fascinating and fun!

[@RichardBejtlich]

I’m with you. My Steam side is staying on 1.12.36 for a while. 🔥🔥

[@fredshannon8110]

This Rover is something else you can drive it a cross open water. It is a blast when taking on Tetramorphs, I ran into one outside of New Atlantis a lot of fun. This rover is a kick ass ride both in first person and 3rd person, head lights are really bright makes driving at night a lot better. You need to go into the game play if on console and fix one little thing. BGS put exiting rover and boost both on "B". I changed it to "A" to get in and hold down "A" to exit. really a lot of fun.

[@RichardBejtlich]

Those are good ideas -- I will check my key bindings too. I need to take the rover to Neon! 😆

[@B-Diddy-6]

YES! I'm stuck on a double 12 hour shift, but will absolutely dive in on the next day off!

[@RichardBejtlich]

Ouch, hang in there!!

[@willia451]

Nice review of the update, Richard. Very informative. As to the rover? Better than I expected. Faster than on foot. And fun to drive. Awesome addition to the game.

[@RichardBejtlich]

TYVM and I appreciate your thoughts 🙏

[@yiasemi]

Kind of what I figured. It never struck me as much more than a bit of fun rather than a needed feature, but good to have the option. Yes, I use that fast travel mod, though sparingly. Excited for the dlc

[@RichardBejtlich]

I think the next step will be rover modding and customization... that might make it more of a relevant item for me. I already want to try out some of the mods!

[@yiasemi]

@@RichardBejtlich ha yes, mods will make it more useful. As always.

[@Teufel9000]

i borrowed my brothers xbox series s to try doing wall clips with the 60fps settings. its now possible to do it on console which is cool. cant wait for the expansion next month

[@RichardBejtlich]

Ooh interesting. I think I saw you were on Twitch tonight but I was too busy with this video. 😆

[@KenBauer]

Thanks for this update, "we don't need roads".

[@RichardBejtlich]

TYVM!!

[@downix]

"Here are my thoughts" I fully expected you to them go "Wheeeeeeee!"

[@RichardBejtlich]

Haha I should have!

[@MagicGoblinPrincess]

I didn't care one way or the other about this...until I got in and drove. It's ridiculously fun. I'm still not very good at driving it, but I'm improving. And to be honest, crashing into things (accidentally) is great. It's like riding the bumper cars at the fair. We don't need roads!

[@RichardBejtlich]

HA I felt the same way! Thank goodness you can't wreck it. 😆

[@SwiftTurtle911]

We don’t need roads! I think I’m excited about the future of Starfield. I wish they would add more random POIs. If they could make it so when you encounter the same UC Vanguard Listening Post over and over the interior decorations and enemies were a little randomized or different it would help immersion. I can buy that the Vanguard had a blueprint that multiple outpost were built to, but the enemies and furniture should be random for each time you encounter the same POI

[@RichardBejtlich]

💯💯💯

[@YourTamedLion]

We dont need roads !😂 I am very excited for the future of Starfield. Especially the mods and this rover means we will get much more capable and cooler vehicles eventually. Until then I will definitely drive this Rover.

[@RichardBejtlich]

Agreed 🔥🔥🔥

[@svranca]

Richard, I have a question and I hope you can help. I play with an heavy modded save. The games seems to load fine, but I don’t seem to be able to interact or open doors any longer. Is this something the SFSE update will fix? Or could it be something else. FYI. I have a mix of Vortex and Creation mods. So far all worked flawlessly

[@RichardBejtlich]

I'm afraid I don't know, although I think some people on Reddit are discussing this.

[@RichardBejtlich]

Are you using Show Power Name on the HUD mod?

[@svranca]

@@RichardBejtlich I was and deleted but did not help. I just uninstalled and reinstalling the game (2700+ hrs of game play lost)

[@svranca]

I will try loading first mods from creation and slowly integrating the Vortex… and let’s see what causes the issue…

[@RichardBejtlich]

I had an issue with the Encumbrance HUD mod. Getting rid of that fixed a problem I had not being able to open the Lodge door.

[@Multifidi20]

I had a ton of mods installed on my XSX. Downloaded the update but my ability to interact/pickup objects and NPCs did not work. So I had to Start a new game with about half my mods activated. Took me a couple of tries to fix. We just need to accept that after every Bethesda update there's going to be bugs with mods. The Rover is awesome, though.

[@RichardBejtlich]

So true. Mods can be tricky.

[@GuardianM25]

How they thought to ship without the rover I'll never know. Skyrim at least had a horse, and we didn't have to traverse PLANETS ON FOOT

[@RichardBejtlich]

It sounds like it was a lot of work, and it got cut to make it out the door after being a year late already.

[@Normal_People]

Ha! We don't need roads....

[@RichardBejtlich]

Right on! 👏🔥🙏

[@darkdeath174]

No quests/NPC fixes this patch... guess I'll just have to live with ECS Constant missing and a few other NPCs in other places missing. I guess it's time to finish the side quests I can do and the last story mission for the DLC, turns out waiting did me no good :(

[@RichardBejtlich]

Definitely frustrating to not get mission fixes!

[@joshkund]

Oh ive been waiting for this. shame there's not more mechanics behind it when its stuck though. But we don't need roads.

[@RichardBejtlich]

Ha, yeah, I need a tow truck to get me. 😆

[@chi3f00]

I’ll be damn if the next dlc was mid October or November at least it’s less than 5 weeks away

[@RichardBejtlich]

I was expecting early September to match the 1 year anniversary, but I think they considered September 30 to be close enough. 😆

[@Blank55600]

I thought it was the 30th of August?

[@RichardBejtlich]

Sep 30.

[@FormerDeveloper]

cant exit the rover? any fix?

[@RichardBejtlich]

Check Reddit -- people are running into it and trying different approaches. Good luck friend!

[@tobylerhone7908]

The Rover is fun to drive but the latest update also breaks ship building, the drop down glitch and the flip glitch are no longer possible. Well done Bethesda, this is how you alienate your userbase. The ship building glitches do not give any in game advantages.😒 We don't need roads.

[@RichardBejtlich]

Thanks for watching! I hope BGS reconsiders what it's doing to ships.

[@JuniperBrew]

The rover has dropped...what feels like 5 years after thr game released. I will never load up starfield again. Unless it gets a whole new really big story arch. I liked it. I enjoyed it. I dont want to play it again.

[@RichardBejtlich]

Fair enough.