Starfield Player Points Out Adorable New Vasco Detail

Key Takeaways

• Vasco strikes an adorable pose in Starfield’s Rev-8 when it’s high in the air.
• The bipedal robot’s quirky passenger behavior is illustrative of the high attention to detail that went into the making of the Rev-8.

One Starfield player has recently noticed that Vasco strikes an adorable pose in the Rev-8 whenever the rover is sufficiently high up in the air. The robot’s quirky behavior underlines the attention to detail that went into the making of Starfield‘s first-ever land vehicle.

The Rev-8 was added to the space-faring RPG as part of the Starfield update 1.13.61. The game’s latest major content drop rolled out on August 20, mere hours after being unveiled during Gamescom Opening Night Live. Starfield‘s concurrent player count jumped by roughly 50% by the following weekend, as thousands of players seemingly flocked back to the game in order to give the Rev-8 a go.

Vasco Loves Soaring Through the Air in Starfield’s Rev-8

That demographic includes Reddit user LookLookyILikeCookie, who was among the first to publicly point out that out of all the Starfield companions, Vasco might enjoy riding in the Rev-8 the most. This is largely because the bipedal robot will extend its arms laterally whenever the vehicle is soaring through the air, with the animation being triggered by each and every jump past a certain height threshold. Since the Rev-8 is equipped with thrusters, getting it high enough for Vasco to make its best wing impression is fairly easy to do, especially on low-gravity worlds.

Bethesda Seemingly Put a Lot of Thought Into Making Starfield’s Rev-8

This adorable behavior indicates that Bethesda put quite a bit of thought into making the RPG’s first-ever land vehicle. Ditto for the fact that all of the game’s companions have unique voice lines that they can say while driving around in the passenger seat or (in Vasco’s case) the rover’s trunk. On a similar note, Bethesda even went through the effort of having the Rev-8 expand on its existing intoxication system, to the point that Starfield now also has drunk driving.

This attention to detail is all the more impressive in light of the fact that the developer only started working on the Rev-8 in the first half of 2024. Prior to that, the studio made the conscious choice not to have land vehicles in Starfield, but relented due to an influx of player requests to reconsider that decision.

The Rev-8 will be far from the final major addition to the sci-fi RPG. Bethesda is still sticking to its six-week update schedule and intends to keep at it for the foreseeable future, having repeatedly said it wants to support Starfield for much longer than its prior single-player games. The RPG’s next big content drop is going to be of the premium variety, arriving in the form of Shattered Space, its first-ever expansion that is scheduled to debut on September 30.