New Starfield Update 1.7.33 patch fixes the game’s wildest glitches, and I’m kinda sad

A small, but significant Starfield update has arrived.

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What you need to know

About two weeks after the arrival of Starfield’s first hotfix update on Sept. 13, Bethesda’s new sci-fi RPG has once again gotten a patch. The new update addresses a number of performance and graphics-related issues, and also fixes some big gameplay bugs. It’s available to download now on Xbox Series X|S, the Microsoft Store, and Steam.

By far, what stands out the most about this update is the resolution of some of the funniest — and most useful —Starfieldglitches. Specifically, a bug that allowed players to own space stations like The Den or The Key as personal starships has been fixed, and the famous “puddle glitch” that gave full access to Akila City vendor inventories through seams in the ground has been patched, too. RIP.

I completely understand why Bethesda fixed these issues, of course. The former has the potential to cause…serious problems, and by abusing the latter, you could get huge amounts of quality loot for free, then sell it back to the vendors you robbed blind for tons of credits. Even so, it’s a bummer that the community didn’t get much time to play around with these bugs before they got the axe.

-Starfield player spawns 10,000 sandwiches atop their ship, raining them down on New Atlantis-Someone made the Magic School Bus in Starfield-Starfield player steals an entire pirate space station, then lands it on a planet

Simply not updating the gameisan option, but by doing so, you’d lose out on the update’s performance and stability improvements. Also, Bethesda plans to add highly requested features like an FOV slider, a button to quickly eat food you find, and official DLSS support in future patches, so players will want to update eventually. Much of what’s coming can be added to the PC version of the game with thebest Starfield mods, but Xbox players don’t have this option yet.

Other notable parts of the update include fixes for graphics issues with lens flares on AMD GPUs and blurry upscaled textures, as well as photosensitivity problems that could occur when players quickly scrolled through their inventory. Steps have been taken to reduce hitching, freezing, and crashing as well, and glitches that caused displayed or stored items on ships to disappear were fixed, too.

In the section below, we’ve listed the full Update 1.7.33 patch notes for convenient reading. Make sure you look through them to see everything that’s been addressed or changed.

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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Starfield Update 1.7.33 patch notes

Here are the full Starfield Update 1.7.33 patch notes, taken directly fromBethesda’s website.

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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).