Although Bethesda Game Studios promised improvements to space travel in Starfield late last year, the seamless experience that fans have yearned for since the space game's 2023 launch hasn't quite made its way over yet… but hope for it isn't dead.
In fact, it's once again been sparked in many a hopeful player's heart thanks to a recent chat between Todd Howard and Kinda Funny, in which the Bethesda boss sets expectations of what fans can anticipate to see come to Starfield. "It's updates and things that change the game, not in an isolated way, but sort of 'meta,'" Howard states. "Using outer space and things in ways that we haven't." The key here is "in ways that we haven't."
A Reddit thread puts the community's hopium on display, with the poster writing, "Is Todd Howard hinting at seamless space travel here?" They include a screenshot of the quote from Kinda Funny, along with lead creative producer Tim Lamb's past assertions that "part of the team has been focused on space gameplay to make the travels there more rewarding." The fan explains that the two developers' comments point to seamless space travel.
Is Todd Howard hinting at seamless space travel here? (In image 2, Tim Lamb’s comments also about “rewarding space travel gameplay")from r/Starfield
"Taking both Tim Lamb's and Todd Howard's comments into account, I'm really struggling to see what else this could mean at this stage," they say. "There will probably be plenty of updates to various gameplay systems, but I think the major feature will be this: seamless travel between planets. No more fragmented gameplay interrupted by loading screens, we'll genuinely feel the trip from one world to another."
Comments offer a mixed bag of similarly excited folks who think it "would be nice," and others who don't see it happening anytime soon. "Although I would love this, I cannot get my hopes up just because you never know how they can interpret 'space travel,'" as one puts it. "Could be fuel economy, could be being boarded by pirates, could be seamless (like flying into a star and dying)…would be great if any of those."
Another player adds, "If I've learned anything from my time with this game and its hype, it's don't speculate at all." As an increasingly disappointed Elder Scrolls 6 hopeful myself, I'd sadly have to agree here – although seamless space travel would be cool.
