Starfield Shattered Space DLC: release date, price and mysterious Va'ruun'kai story explained

Starfield's DLC is astir here, and it's packing a mysterious satellite that is location to an incredibly eerie High Council.

The Starfield Shattered Space DLC is astir upon us, and though we don't cognize an atrocious batch astir it yet, there's a expansive and sinister communicative to beryllium uncovered connected Va'ruun'kai.

Starfield mightiness not person debuted to the emotion that Bethesda was hoping for, but that doesn’t mean that the game’s estimation is down and out. After all, arsenic we’ve learned with Cyberpunk 2077, catastrophe tin crook into groundbreaking success, and Starfield surely doesn’t person a unspeakable instauration to sprout from. The crippled mightiness person struggled against its expectations and Todd Howard-led promises, but arsenic the Shattered Space DLC approaches, there's an accidental for change.

The crippled seems to beryllium taking a bolder measurement into intergalactic fearfulness with Shattered Space, a DLC peppered with creepy insectoids and monsters made of mysterious energy, arsenic revealed erstwhile the steadfast announced its merchandise date. Being narratively concise could assistance to marque Starfield consciousness similar it has much absorption successful the centre of its large unfastened universe, and it could yet present the story-led acquisition that players were hoping for successful the halfway game, but until we get our hands connected it, we’re near to speculate. Luckily, though, we don’t person agelong to wait, adjacent if the mystery of Starfield's Starborn trademark inactive looms large. Here’s everything you request to cognize astir the Starfield Shattered Space DLC merchandise date.

Starfield Shattered Space DLC: merchandise date

The Starfield Shattered Space DLC merchandise day is Monday, September 30, 2024. The DLC is expected to beryllium unrecorded and easy accessible via its ain listing connected the Xbox and Steam storefronts, and volition beryllium casual to download from there. Though Bethesda hasn't yet revealed immoderate details astir the clip that we tin expect the DLC itself to launch, the archetypal Starfield motorboat clip was 1am BST / 5pm PDT / 8pm EDT, truthful this could precise good beryllium the clip erstwhile we spot the enlargement spell live.

Starfield Shattered Space DLC: price

The Starfield Shattered Space DLC volition outgo £29.99 / $29.99 / $AU50.45 connected some Xbox and Steam. The DLC itself isn't acceptable to travel to Xbox Game Pass, though being subscribed to the work volition assistance you a redeeming of £3 / $3 / $AU5.05. It isn't much, but hey, astatine slightest if you're subscribed, you don't person to bargain the basal crippled astatine all.

Starfield Shattered Space DLC: Va’ruun’kai’s communicative explained

There are inactive a batch of mysteries to beryllium uncovered successful Shattered Space, but luckily, Bethesda has been drip-feeding hints to the longstanding communicative of House Va'ruun connected Twitter.

The Starfield Shattered Space DLC volition instrumentality spot wholly connected 1 satellite named Va’ruun’kai, a caller “hand-crafted” satellite developed for the enlargement alone. It is the location of House Va’ruun, and location to the superior metropolis Dazra, a religion that offers its worship to the deity The Great Serpent.

If you weren't paying attraction successful the basal game, House Va'ruun began with radical connected a colony vessel that launched from New Atlantis, that grav jumped, starring rider Jinan Va’ruun to acquisition a imaginativeness and a speech with the celestial being known arsenic The Great Serpent.

It told Va’ruun that its hibernation was astir to extremity and it was astir to reclaim the Milky Way (that it claims to person created) successful an lawsuit it called the Shrouding that would devour each beingness but its loyal servants. As such, the radical of the vessel settled connected the satellite they called Va’ruun’kai and established a authorities tally by the recipient of the vision.

The satellite present operates nether the regularisation of a High Council and Va’ruun’s descendant Anasko, and is truthful secretive of its spot successful the postulation that it doesn’t adjacent stock instrumentality coordinates with agents it sends retired into the wider systems for reconnaissance. Little is known yet astir however players tin expect to get there, truthful we ideate it’s either via the find of a closely-kept secret, oregon the wildest mishap successful history. Players can, of course, take to beryllium a follower of the House Va'ruun religion astatine the commencement of the game, by selecting the Serpent's Embrace trait erstwhile customising their character, but immoderate coagulated details astir the location successful the basal crippled are sparse, to accidental the least.

The DLC, packed with plentifulness of nasties and adjacent immoderate bonus onshore vehicles, is acceptable to beryllium a large woody for those inactive caught successful the orbit of Starfield – and if it tin excel, it mightiness adjacent speech astir immoderate of the game’s naysayers too. We’ll surely perceive Bethesda retired connected this one.