Bizarre Starfield bug lets player take all of New Atlantis into space, and they can’t put it back
Why don’t we take New Atlantis and fly it somewhere else?
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Though Starfield is, on the whole, much less buggy at launch than past Bethesda games were, players have still reported experiencing plenty of strange glitches since the RPG’s release earlier this month. I didn’t think anything could top the (now patched) exploit that allowed someone tosteal a pirate space station and land it on a planet, but I’ve since discovered the existence of what is easily one of the most bizarre bugs I’ve ever seen in a video game.
Recently,u/Punidue on Reddit took to the r/Starfield communityto share an absolutely wild development. After boarding their ship while it was docked at the Crimson Fleet faction’s The Key space station, they somehow found themselves in the middle of New Atlantis — the metropolis players first arrive at after Starfield’s tutorial, and one that’s locatedmanysystems away from The Key. Then, when they took off,the entirety of New Atlantis followed them to space, and continued to do so even after grav jumps or landings.“I’m not sure why it happened, but: I boarded a spacer ship, and jumped to The Key to register and modify it. I do so, exit dialogue with the vendor, and talk to her again because I wanted to change my home ship back to what I was using before. After that, the station got incredibly bright and I could not fast travel anywhere,” explained u/Punidue. “So I got back to the docks, boarded my ship and bam, I was in a glitchy New Atlantis ready for take off. I do so, and bring the whole city in orbit with me. It follows me if I grav jump away or land making the game an unplayable mess.”
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Thankfully, u/Punidue was finally able to fix the issue by loading an earlier save, though they lost three hours of progress as a result. If nothing else, let this be a reminder that saving often is always a good idea, especially in massive and complicated RPGs likeStarfield.
Interestingly, u/Punidue isn’t the only person who’s run into this particular bug, as several others have mentioned their own experiences in the comments of their post. For some, performing multiple grav jumps in a row eventually made the city disappear from orbit, though multiple chunks of New Atlantis will be missing if you land at it whether this happens or not. At the moment, it seems that reloading a save or starting NG+ are your only options for a true fix.
The exact cause of this glitch is unclear, though everyone who’s reported encountering it says that it happened after they tried to register a new Home Ship while aboard a space station. Therefore, we recommend taking care of business like that while you’re at a planetary spaceport, lest all of New Atlantis hitches a ride with you across the Settled Systems.
Starfield is finally here, and it’s undoubtedly one of thebest Xbox gamesandbest PC gamesfor lovers of space exploration, deep RPG gameplay, and the sci-fi genre as a whole.
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Brendan Lowry is a Windows Central writer and Oakland University graduate with a burning passion for video games, of which he’s been an avid fan since childhood. He’s been writing for Team WC since the summer of 2017, and you’ll find him doing news, editorials, reviews, and general coverage on everything gaming, Xbox, and Windows PC. His favorite game of all time is probably NieR: Automata, though Elden Ring, Fallout: New Vegas, and Team Fortress 2 are in the running, too. When he’s not writing or gaming, there’s a good chance he’s either watching an interesting new movie or TV show or actually going outside for once.Follow him on X(Twitter).
