Highlights
- A Starfield player on PC has found a way to spacewalk outside their ship using console commands, allowing them to explore asteroids and potentially create outposts on them.
- This feature was likely cut by Bethesda during development, as it was not widely known or advertised leading up to the game's release.
- While it may be possible to introduce spacewalking as a mod for PC players, console players will likely have to wait for an official update or DLC from Bethesda.
A Starfield player on PC has used console commands that make it possible for them to leave their ship while in space, allowing them to spacewalk. Starfield is the latest RPG from Bethesda Game Studios led by Todd Howard. As the studio's first single-player RPG since Fallout 4 in 2015, Starfield has enjoyed early success, accumulating over six million players in just two days and becoming Bethesda's biggest launch ever.
In the very long lead-up to Starfield's release, there had been much discourse about what could be possible in a galaxy-spanning space RPG made by Bethesda Game Studios. Over time, certain elements of the game had become officially revealed and confirmed by Bethesda, such as Starfield featuring the studio's largest city ever in New Atlantis, being able to build and crew ships, engaging in space combat, and being able to explore over 1,000 moons and planets across over 100 star systems. As this information trickled out over the years, it became clear that Starfield was going to be Bethesda's most ambitious title to date. While these promising elements of the game dominated the conversations surrounding it, the question of whether players would be able to spacewalk outside of their ship largely flew under the radar as Starfield's release approached.
One Starfield player has been able to spacewalk outside The Frontier with the help of console commands on PC. WeirdConcern4666 shared footage on the Starfield subreddit of a player floating and boosting around outside their ship in the middle of an asteroid belt. It's unknown the system the player is doing this in, but the planet or moon they're orbiting takes on a light orange hue. In the clip, the player was able to get up close to some of the asteroids and at one point got as far away as nearly 1500 meters from the ship.
While unseen in the video, Rebs Gaming posted the same clip to Twitter and claimed that the player was also able to walk on the asteroids and even create outposts on them. Rebs Gaming went on to share the console commands under the tweet so PC players can try it out for themselves. Many commenters under the Reddit post and Red Gaming's tweet pointed out that since Starfield shipped with the ability to spacewalk with the use of console commands on PC, the feature was likely cut by Bethesda at some point during development. This potential omission makes sense considering there wouldn't have been much to do while spacewalking outside of one's ship, unless Bethesda pivoted into more of a simulator direction, letting players repair and maintain their ships from the outside.
Many believe spacewalking in Starfield would make for an excellent PC mod, as Bethesda has been open to its very active modding community for years at this point. However, for fans on consoles, waiting on Bethesda to introduce spacewalking as part of an official update or DLC would be the best bet. Though, with Starfield fresh out the door it'll likely be some time before any of Bethesda's future plans for the title are revealed.
Starfield is available now for PC and Xbox Series X|S.