Veteran Starfield players share their hilarious strategies

Key Takeaways

• Starfield's introductory mission ends with a battle with space pirates that can take quite a while.
• But recently a player shared a funny way to end it quickly by camping at the entrance of their spaceship and immediately blowing them up with explosives.

A veteran Starfield players shared an unusual strategy for dealing with the battle at the end of the game's introductory mission by blasting everyone at once. Their unconventional approach later went viral on social media, surprising thousands Starfield fans.

Spoilers for One Small Step (first Starfield mission) ahead.

StarfieldThe first mission, One Small Step, serves as an introduction to the game's story and a look at some of the basic mechanics such as mining, locking, equipment management, and shooting bad guys. It culminates in a battle with a group of space pirates — the toughest combat challenge the player faces at this early stage of the game.

And while this encounter may take a long time, it can be completed in seconds. This was recently demonstrated by Reddit user TheBigTrav, who shared a photo of them camped out in front of a pirate spaceship holding explosives, waiting for the bad guys to emerge. As soon as the landing bay was lowered, it was tricky Starfield The player threw the canister at the pirates and hit him with a double shot from his pistol. The explosion that followed killed all but the furthest enemy, which was left as a sitting duck that the player quickly dispatched as well.

Starfield's Intro Pirate Wars can be more difficult

As a photo recently shared by TheBigTrav shows, only about four seconds pass between the descent of the landing bay and the time everyone is on board. Starfield the pirate ship is dead. This bold strategy works better than going with the game's story by letting the pirates shoot first and then being drawn into a long firefight where everyone is scattered. The location of this encounter provides a lot of cover, so it's easy to end up in a messy situation that takes a while to resolve.

TheBigTrav's unusual strategy garnered thousands of upvotes and eventually appeared on the front page of the r/Starfield subreddit in early November 2024. Starfield Fans praised the actor for his creativity, seeming surprised by the fact that his method is partly funny and effective. The player did not explain how many playthroughs he completed before releasing this quick fix.

Their funny clips are also reminiscent of some Starfield fans keep coming back to the game, a trend Bethesda hopes will continue. As explained by the studio's executive director, Todd Howard, Starfield was “deliberately” designed to be played for a long time, and Bethesda plans to keep supporting it with post-launch content longer than previous single-player games.