Starfield is already finished and announces its pre-download: these are all the dates and early access for Bethesda’s space odyssey

Five years ago Bethesda introduced the world to Starfield. Its first new franchise since 1993. Since then it has rained a lot: the Maryland company joined the Xbox project, there was a generational leap in consoles and, as a publisher, it has continued to bet on new ideas. Today, that dream of offering a space RPG on a par with The Elder Scrolls and Fallout reaches a new milestone: the development of Space Odyssey. is officially complete.

Starfield is GOLD. That means that the physical copies have begun to be produced and, for its part, Bethesda has proceeded to upload the finished version of the game to the servers. The countdown to launch begins and there will be no more delays. To the point that possibly You can now install the game on your Xbox shortly after reading these lines.

The Marylanders have announced that the pre-download of the game on Xbox begins on 17 of August. That is to say, exactly the day after having officially completed its development. On Steam, where you can also explore the space imagined by Todd Howard, the game director, and his team, the pre-download starts on the 30th of the same month. In both cases, anticipating the launch date.

In this way, based on the fact that there are early accesses and with a view to the release of Starfield -since we have prepared the 125 GB of space available on PC- the key dates for the launch are the following:

Will there be a release patch? Those from Maryland assured that they ran into the fewest bugs of any of their own games, but it is not ruled out. To which we must add that Starfield is expected to add content progressively and there is even an announcement of a first expansion titled Broken Space, with no announced date and that -in addition to being able to be purchased separately- is included in special editions.

That said, it goes without saying that if we play from Xbox Cloud Gaming on console, browsers or directly from TV, no pre-download or update will be necessary. But best of all, in those five days of early access for Starfield, the fans of the project themselves will work passionately to make the game as polished as possible for the official release. And Bethesda itself will provide additional facilities by opening the doors wide to mods.

long, Starfield It is the most anticipated game by Microsoft and Bethesda-style role-playing lovers. A company that in the same year is capable of surprising or disappointing us, but now has an additional claim: it tries to compete against the best of itself. And, in the process, setting a new milestone for Xbox Game Studios.

All in all, it doesn’t hurt to share the minimum and recommended requirements of the game.

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What for its creators is part of the end of a long journey (which will continue to expand), for millions of Xbox and PC players it will be the beginning of an even bigger one. One that will take us beyond the last frontier of humanity at the controls of our own spaceship. The takeoff date: Starfield will be available with the arrival of September 2023. Although if you plan to play it on console you can start putting on your helmet starting tomorrow.

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