Starfield update 1.16.244 fixes planet surface freezes, Black Box Incursions, and UI bugs

Bethesda dropped Starfield update 1.16.244 on June 11 across all platforms. It covers stability fixes, gameplay corrections, and UI cleanup for both the base game and the Terran Armada DLC.

On the stability side, the update squashes a freeze that could hit while traversing planet surfaces, a crash triggered by placing a Designer Couch aboard a ship, and an infinite load caused by a data slate display on a ship. Gameplay fixes include Black Box Incursions failing to start or reset correctly, Delta appearing at the wrong size, Quantum Essence being usable through Favorites even when none was in inventory, a handful of Points of Interest showing up on planets with no human presence, and a space encounter that was spawning way too many asteroids. The UI pass removes incorrectly displayed Incursion icons from the Starmap when loading a save, fixes an unresponsive vehicle menu, corrects a texture issue in character creation, and resolves a font rendering bug with certain text strings. Credits have also been updated.

The Terran Armada DLC is recent, and several of these fixes — particularly around Black Box Incursions and Incursion icons — directly target issues introduced with that content. Players running the DLC were most likely to hit those specific bugs.

Bethesda is asking players to make sure both the base game and the DLC are updated. The patch is live now on all platforms.