Starfield’s Next Update Teases Bethesda’s Bold Blueprint for The Elder Scrolls 6 Open World

Bethesda makes gigantic, beloved worlds — and then makes you stare at loading screens like it is 2008. Starfield kept that tradition alive. That might be about to change.

The rumor: Starfield could finally ditch the constant loading

Windows Central is hearing that Starfield is lining up a notable upgrade, tied to the much-hyped Terran Armada update. The gist: if Bethesda upgrades its Creation Engine to support seamless transitions — the kind of tech that hides or wipes out those stop-and-go load breaks — Starfield could feel like a different game. And if they pull it off here, it almost certainly bleeds into The Elder Scrolls 6.

Before anyone gets too excited: this is still rumor territory. Grain of salt required. But the timing and the goals make sense.

Why this matters (beyond your sanity)

Fans have been waiting ages for Bethesda to modernize its approach to loading. A lot of games have moved past obvious loading screens; Bethesda has not. Starfield even shipped with an SSD as the practical baseline to keep things running smoothly — and yet you still get yanked into loads constantly.

Meanwhile, No Man's Sky (the obvious comparison for space travel) has long offered seamless transitions without hard cuts. Two years on from Starfield's launch, the idea that Bethesda might be chasing something similar tracks with where the industry and expectations are.

The No Man's Sky comparison — fair this time?

Starfield got compared to No Man's Sky from day one, which did not help at launch. The final release had missing or undercooked features, and plenty of players did not see a full-fat AAA game in there. Since then, Bethesda has been in steady upgrade mode, patch by patch, trying to get the game where it probably should have been.

That approach mirrors what Hello Games did when No Man's Sky faceplanted early: relentless updates that slowly rebuilt the reputation. Hello Games even folded in features they had originally planned for their next project, Light No Fire, back into No Man's Sky. The chatter now is that Bethesda could be contemplating a similar move with Starfield's next major update — pulling forward bigger tech ideas rather than waiting for the next game to debut them.

• What is being rumored: a Terran Armada update that upgrades the Creation Engine for seamless travel, cutting down or eliminating obvious loading screens.
• Why it matters: if the engine changes land in Starfield, The Elder Scrolls 6 likely inherits those gains.
• The context: Starfield requires an SSD to run properly and still leans on visible loading, while No Man's Sky has long delivered smooth, uninterrupted transitions.
• Status check: this is rumor via Windows Central — promising, but not confirmed by Bethesda.

So, what now?

If Bethesda is really aiming to break the loading-screen curse, that is the single most meaningful quality-of-life leap they could make to their open worlds. It would also be our first real hint at Elder Scrolls 6's technical ceiling. Now it is on Bethesda to show what they have been quietly building — and whether Terran Armada is as transformative as it sounds.