It appears like Bethesda has begun teasing new content material for Starfield, after followers noticed a hidden message in a social media video launched to rejoice 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 unbelievable years within the #Starfield. 🌌
Thanks to everybody who has explored the Settled Methods with us. We stay up for the adventures but to return. pic.twitter.com/AeWN8DVlO2
— Starfield (@StarfieldGame) September 5, 2025
And certainly there may be. It didn’t take lengthy for Starfield followers to rearrange the frames in such a technique to kind 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 title of Starfield’s long-awaited second growth. 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 in truth relate to DLC, might be in regards to the return ships that left Earth in some unspecified time in the future prior to now, maybe a fleet of technology ships. One other widespread idea is that the Terrans are the title 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 ambiance 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 impression craters, with no indicators of life.
Or maybe Terran Armada isn’t DLC 2 in any case, and as a substitute is a stop-gap replace designed to tide followers over till the promised second growth 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. Other than obscure phrases of reassurance, Bethesda has remained tight-lipped on the way forward for Starfield, solely lately teasing enhancements to area journey.
“We have waited 11 months for a three-second display screen that modified colours and revealed a number of letters of a damaged up phrase (and we’re in all probability 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 area gameplay “to make the travels there extra rewarding” after datamined fragments of code recommended the developer had a extra streamlined area journey expertise within the works. Primarily based on this datamine, when you might be able to journey between planets throughout the identical system, you received’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 area gameplay, and {that a} new DLC story was nonetheless coming in some unspecified time in the future.
“I believe because it involves Starfield, I am actually excited for gamers to see what the groups have been engaged on,” he mentioned. “We’ve 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 small print simply but, however I’ll say a part of the workforce has been targeted on area gameplay to make the travels there extra rewarding. We’re additionally including some new recreation 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 recognize the help and the passion. We won’t wait to get it into the palms of our gamers.”
Final month it was reported that Starfield’s second growth and much-anticipated PlayStation 5 port would now arrive in 2026, following the poor reception to 2024 add-on Shattered Area. 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, but it surely was not as properly acquired because the studio’s earlier video games within the Fallout and The Elder Scrolls franchises, and the Shattered Area growth, launched a 12 months later in September 2024, has a ‘largely unfavourable’ consumer evaluation score on Steam.
Starfield went on to succeed in 15 million gamers, however the query of whether or not Bethesda may stroll away from the sport to concentrate on its different franchises has been a working theme since launch. In June 2024, Bethesda insisted it remained dedicated to supporting Starfield, and confirmed no less than one different story growth would come out following Shattered Area. And in an interview with YouTube channel MrMattyPlays, Bethesda Sport Studios’ Todd Howard mentioned the developer was aiming to launch an annual story growth for “hopefully a really very long time.”
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