It seems to be like Bethesda has begun teasing new content material for Starfield, after followers noticed a hidden message in a social media video launched to have fun the sport’s two-year anniversary.
The video, under, begins off innocently sufficient, however quickly the tone of the music shifts and the picture turns into garbled. Clearly, there’s a tease in there someplace!
Celebrating two unimaginable years within the #Starfield. 🌌
Thanks to everybody who has explored the Settled Programs with us. We stay up for the adventures but to come back. pic.twitter.com/AeWN8DVlO2
— Starfield (@StarfieldGame) September 5, 2025
And certainly there’s. It didn’t take lengthy for Starfield followers to rearrange the frames in such a method to type the phrases ‘Terran Armada,’ which has despatched the sport’s neighborhood down a rabbit gap of hypothesis.
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The obvious suggestion is Terran Armada is the identify of Starfield’s long-awaited second enlargement. If that’s the case, it suggests a DLC that revolves round Earth, individuals who left Earth, or individuals who nonetheless are on Earth. Some are speculating that Terran Armada, if this does actually relate to DLC, shall be concerning the return ships that left Earth sooner or later previously, maybe a fleet of era ships. One other common concept is that the Terrans are the identify of a brand new enemy faction of survivors left on Earth after its destruction, which may evoke Mad Max vibes.
In Starfield, Earth grew to become a barren, uninhabitable wasteland after its magnetosphere collapsed in 2203, resulting in the dissipation of its environment and the evacuation of humanity. The collapse was a direct consequence of the invention and widespread use of the Grav Drive, a expertise enabling faster-than-light journey. The planet is now uncovered to harmful photo voltaic and cosmic radiation and is roofed in poisonous vents and influence craters, with no indicators of life.
Or maybe Terran Armada isn’t DLC 2 in any case, and as an alternative is a stop-gap replace designed to tide followers over till the promised second enlargement lastly materializes.
No matter that is, clearly Starfield followers who’ve caught with the sport since its launch in 2023 are chomping on the bit. Aside from imprecise phrases of reassurance, Bethesda has remained tight-lipped on the way forward for Starfield, solely not too long ago teasing enhancements to house journey.
“We have waited 11 months for a three-second display that modified colours and revealed a couple of letters of a damaged up phrase (and we’re most likely gonna have to attend one other 4-6 months for something extra),” mentioned redditor Elkupalos. “We’re past starved at this level haha. Subsequent trailer or replace of precise substance is gonna hit us followers like a nuke.”
Final month, Bethesda confirmed enhancements to Starfield house gameplay “to make the travels there extra rewarding” after datamined fragments of code instructed the developer had a extra streamlined house journey expertise within the works. Based mostly on this datamine, whilst you might be able to journey between planets inside the identical system, you gained’t be capable to fly all the way in which between methods, nor fly instantly from a planet’s floor into orbit, like No Man’s Sky.
In a brand new video discussing his profession, veteran Bethesda developer Tim Lamb confirmed that the studio had been engaged on Starfield’s house gameplay, and {that a} new DLC story was nonetheless coming sooner or later.
“I believe because it involves Starfield, I am actually excited for gamers to see what the groups have been engaged on,” he mentioned. “We now have some cool stuff coming, together with free updates and options the gamers have been asking for, in addition to a brand new DLC story.
“I can not go into all the main points simply but, however I’ll say a part of the group has been targeted on house gameplay to make the travels there extra rewarding. We’re additionally including some new sport methods, and some different smaller delights. There’s additionally some actually attention-grabbing stuff coming down the pipe from our verified creators. There’s some enjoyable stuff.
“I simply wish to say thanks. We actually admire the assist and the passion. We won’t wait to get it into the fingers of our gamers.”
Final month it was reported that Starfield’s second enlargement and much-anticipated PlayStation 5 port would now arrive in 2026, following the poor reception to 2024 add-on Shattered House. Bethesda boss Todd Howard had beforehand talked of expansions arriving yearly.
Starfield launched in September 2023 as Bethesda’s first model new IP in 25 years, however it was not as effectively acquired because the studio’s earlier video games within the Fallout and The Elder Scrolls franchises, and the Shattered House enlargement, launched a yr later in September 2024, has a ‘principally unfavourable’ person evaluate ranking on Steam.
Starfield went on to achieve 15 million gamers, however the query of whether or not Bethesda would possibly stroll away from the sport to give attention to its different franchises has been a working theme since launch. In June 2024, Bethesda insisted it remained dedicated to supporting Starfield, and confirmed at the very least one different story enlargement would come out following Shattered House. And in an interview with YouTube channel MrMattyPlays, Bethesda Recreation Studios’ Todd Howard mentioned the developer was aiming to launch an annual story enlargement for “hopefully a really very long time.”
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