Bethesda releases urgent Starfield hotfix players say "did absolutely nothing" for the RPG on PS5 Pro, base PS5 owners eagerly await their own patch "targeting next week"

Starfield fans have been saying the RPG is "unplayable" on PS5 following the port's launch on Sony's platform, prompting Bethesda Game Studios to promise hotfixes after finding "a small number of causes" behind the bugs and crashes. Now, one of those hotfixes is here, specifically targeting the PS5 Pro version of the game – but, uh, it's not exactly delivering… or so fans say.

Bethesda reveals its new patch in an online post, explaining it's "pushing live a quick hotfix for Starfield players on PlayStation 5 Pro that resolves crashing when using Enhanced settings." While this obviously doesn't include folks using the base PlayStation 5 console, there's another hotfix to come.

As Bethesda describes, "The team is preparing an additional hotfix for other PlayStation 5 crashes and freezes, targeting next week. Thank you to everyone who has reached out to our support team, it's been incredibly helpful."

Comments show annoyed players, with the top one reading, "Your hotfix broke the base PS5 version… Can't say I'm surprised, just disappointed again." Oof. Other replies read similarly, too, sadly.

Even the PS5 Pro players aren't having a good time with the hotfix, apparently. "My PS5 Pro crashed in 10 mins after the update," exclaims one. Another writes, "I've just updated, and now it crashes every time I launch the game. How do I fix this, please?"

More folks report that they're still experiencing "freezing," as well as various bugs and crashes – including the very one on PS5 Pro that Bethesda claims to have addressed with this patch.

One disgruntled fan says, "Patch did absolutely nothing. Two minutes after starting the game, it crashed again."

Over on Reddit, things are looking just as rough. A commenter details how Starfield "crashes on Performance mode" now, with another chiming in, "I have a PS5 Pro, and it crashes on me in both Enhanced and Performance."

Overall, both the port and its first subsequent hotfix feel like a bit of a disaster for Bethesda so far.

It makes the prospect of Starfield on Switch 2 – which apparently could be underway – seem all the more impossible, honestly. Did Bethesda learn nothing from the awful Skyrim launch on Nintendo's console? I'd argue that, no, it probably didn't.

Crimson Desert "on track to overtake Starfield's total lifetime copies sold by the end of the year," analyst says, as PS5 sales "not fantastic for a port of the biggest Bethesda RPG in a decade."