Starfield's new patch busts one of the best early exploits in the game and stops Sam Coe telling his daughter to tell jokes to a corpse

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Not a bad foundation to build on, to be honest, which is exactly what Bethesda continues to do. Today, the studio dropped Starfield’s 1.10.30 update in Steam beta ahead of a likely imminent full release, adding new Photo Mode poses, letting you undo a digipicking move without losing a pick, and—I think most important of all—preventing Sam Coe from telling his 12-year-old daughter to try out her stand-up material on a corpse.

“Fixed an issue where Sam Coe could still tell Cora she could try out her joke on a dead character,” reads the patch note, “Tough crowd.”

A brutal burn for a father to inflict on his precocious daughter, and also probably funnier than whatever Cora’s joke actually is (I confess, I don’t remember it from my time with the game). I kind of wished Bethesda had left it in, but I suppose it detracts from Sam’s dad-of-the-year credentials to tell his child to go try her tight-five on a corpse.

The fixes and tweaks are many, and you can find thefull Starfield patch noteshere, but there’s one more little update that I think merits attention. Bethesda has fixed one of the best and easiest early exploits in the game, one that’s so potent we evenwrote an article about itwhen the game came out. You can no longer steal one of the best early-game suits through a millimeter-thick gap in a door.

“Fixed the gap that allows players to access Spacesuits without picking locks of one of the Spacesuit display cases,” says Bethesda, blandly, as though it has not just inflicted a world-historic injustice on millions of players who have only ever loved and trusted it. Before the patch, getting yourself intojustthe right position could let you nab the Mark I Spacesuit from the Constellation basement (also you could probably do it to others, but I only ever did it with that one). It wasn’t the best spacesuit in the game or anything, but it was a nice little early game boost. Alas, nothing gold can stay.

Anyhow, here are those patch notes in full:

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