Starfield player beats the RPG with one of the worst builds possible: gun bashing only – and says it "wasn't too difficult"

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A Starfield player has successfully accomplished one of the weirdest runs we've heard of yet - finishing the game by only whacking enemies with their gun.

The premise of the challenge is as simple as it sounds: the only attacks allowed are with the butt of a gun (no melee weapons allowed, obviously), and no companions are allowed to accompany the player except when the story requires it. The player must also be on 'Normal' difficulty, and is freely allowed to damage enemy ships via conventional methods in space combat.

With those rules established, Causal Loop on YouTube had at it. They created a parody character of Fallout: New Vegas's pistol-slinging Joshua Graham (dubbed Goshua Jam), and went with the 'Bounty Hunter' class since it gives them a Booster Pack, perfect for jumping out of a jam (a Goshua Jam, even) very quickly.

Causal Loop hits the ground running with a pistol, since it gun bashes quicker than other, heavier weapons. They also note that spamming gun bash mercifully doesn't drain the player's oxygen levels, unlike Fallout, so you can pistol whip enemies to death repeatedly without worrying about suffocating. 

The Mantis armor was absolutely paramount for the Starfield run, since it gives the player more damage after they've hit the head of their opponent, and also automatically uses Medpacks when at low health. This is the first elite armor set Causal Loop got their hands on, and it saved their life on more than a few occasions. 

The first big challenge is 'The Old Neighborhood' story mission, where our hero proceeds to pistol whip an entire outpost of bandits to death. It's quite tough, and they burn through Medpacks like there's no tomorrow, but they safely emerge on the other side and live to fight