This has genuinely bought to be one of many extra baffling bugs I’ve seen in Starfield. All of it begins with a number of remoted incidents of gamers being adopted by their very own pet rocks—asteroids by some means sure to their ships. Here is a few examples from Reddit customers ReverendRoo and Ultimastar.
In considered one of my weirdest Bethesda glitch experiences, I’ve bought a tiny asteroid that is been following me for the previous 30 hours from r/Starfield
10 hours in I bought a bug that made this rock observe my ship. 100 hours in and the rock continues to be with me and simply randomly attended my marriage ceremony from r/Starfield
Whereas this appears a enjoyable, remoted glitch, it is in any other case only a cute little bug. Annoying, however not game-breaking, and doubtless a quirk of the sport’s programming. Asteroids in Starfield are, as I perceive it, simply containers—so I can moderately see a state of affairs the place a chest or one thing comparable will get connected to your ship through code-based jank. No massive deal.
Then Kotaku noticed a number of extra and, hoo boy. Not solely are there extra dramatic variations of the bug, it will probably generally simply break your sport. So as of escalation, then—person Same_Cardiologist_59 had a complete cave system begin haunting their house travels.
Did I win the sport of who has random stuff following them? from r/Starfield
A whole forest has been clinging telepathically to person Royal_Schedule4209’s experience. That is an fascinating option to terraform a planet, to make sure. Little exhausting to get by the UC’s scanners, too—that clump of woodland could possibly be carrying all types of invasive species.
yall bought Asteroid buddies following you round?? WELL I GOT A WHOLE FOREST!!! from r/Starfield
These examples, nonetheless, take the Chunk’s own-brand cake. Person Punidue was adopted by the entire Metropolis of New Atlantis. Simply. The entire thing, floating in orbit. Both the UC’s made some superior forcefield tech, or 1000’s of harmless civilians simply bought spaced. They are not even alone on this, both—HotPlastic6 additionally encountered the identical bug, whereas the aptly-named LoStInSpacc has full video footage of the phenomenon.
I heard a few of you’ve rocks following their ship. Nicely, I’ve the WHOLE NEW ATLANTIS from r/Starfield
Why, sure. That’s New Atlantis following my ship. from r/Starfield
Metropolis following my ship ? from r/Starfield
When you can probably destroy these ghost cities with the identical trick used to destroy asteroids—coming into console instructions, clicking on them, and typing ‘disable’—you are out of luck should you needed achievements.
If you do not have a save previous to the incident, it’d even absolutely doom the town, as person drunkboarder writes: “When you return to New Atlantis you may discover you possibly can fall by the bottom in some locations, all the free objects in retailers are lacking, and the Commerce Authority kiosk on the house port is lacking.” This is not some distant mesh latching itself to the aspect of your hull—it is truly plucking out objects, key objects, and geometry, too.
What’s fascinating to me is the hyperlink Punidue makes to The Key, the bottom of the Crimson Fleet, when explaining how the glitch occurred: “I boarded a spacer ship, and jumped to The Key to register and modify it. I achieve this, exit dialogue with the seller, and speak to her once more as a result of I needed to vary my house ship again to what I used to be utilizing earlier than. After that, the station bought extremely brilliant and I couldn’t quick journey wherever. So I bought again to the docks, boarded my ship and bam, I used to be in a glitchy New Atlantis prepared for take off.”
Earlier this month, there was the same bug the place a participant by some means managed to get The Key as a spaceship of their fleet. That occurred, equally, after the participant registered a house ship, shortly after fencing a special one they’d stolen. The ethical of the story? Crime does not pay, and it additionally would possibly rip a complete metropolis from the earth and doom your save.