Bethesda popped up at Gamescom Opening Night Live to reveal that the Rev-8, a vehicle for traversing giant planets in bumpy style, is "available tonight" for free. I gotta say I'm getting big Mass Effect Mako vibes from this thing, but in a charming way—it looks bouncy, [[link]] seemingly has the ability to hover to help you clear large gaps, and yeah, of course it's got a gun on it.
The bigger news, though, is that Starfield's first expansion, Shattered Space, has a release date. As teased at the end of the trailer above, it's out on September 30. You can read more about the surprise patch , which includes details on a number of bug fixes and details how to get ahold of your own Rev-8 (okay, it's pretty simple: just talk to your ship technician).
Today's ground vehicle DLC [[link]] release answers what may be Starfield's most-requested feature. Almost immediately upon release last year, Todd Howard was fielding questions about why there were to drive around despite its scale. (His answer, that you had a jetpack, didn't quite satisfy). We were , but Shattered Space may well be a major boon on that front.
When Bethesda shared a look at Shattered Space , we learned it's going to explore the House Va’ruun, a "weird space cult" who "believe in an eternal space snake" that our writer Chris Livingston was bummed not to learn more about in the base game.
While we only get a few teasing seconds of Shattered Space at the end of the Rev-8 trailer above, it's definitely going for a spooky, cosmic horror vibe, including a character who outright looks like a ghost (or maybe whatever the space hologram version of a ghost is). With the Rev-8 parked on a rocky outcropping overlooking some kind of otherworldly base at the end of the trailer, I'd say it's a safe bet that the new vehicle will feature heavily in some of Shattered Space's new campaign missions. We'll find out in just six weeks.