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Starfield Player Rejects Starter Ship and Takes the Hard Road

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Summary

  • One Starfield player recently decided to sell all of their in-game possessions as soon as they completed the tutorial.
  • This forced them to spend hours scavenging for resources and XP before scraping enough credits together to purchase a spaceship.
  • The player recommended the “Starbum” challenge run to others, claiming it was the most fun they ever had with Starfield.

One veteran Starfield player recently decided to test their mettle by not only refusing to accept the game’s starter ship but even divesting themselves from their tutorial rewards. This choice drastically altered their experience with the opening hours of Starfield, delivering precisely the kind of self-imposed challenge that the player was seeking.

Bethesda’s space-faring RPG wastes no time in providing players with everything they need to start exploring the Settled Systems; obtaining one’s first spaceship in Starfield is as simple as completing a brief tutorial mission, which awards a tiny but reliable spacecraft called the Frontier.

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And while this no-nonsense setup makes every new Starfield playthrough accessible, at least one person seems to have grown bored with it. The player in question is Reddit user Lost_Lasagna, who has recently taken to social media to outline a rather daring challenge that they decided to pursue: playing Starfield without accepting the Frontier from Barrett.

Since piloting the Frontier is required for completing the game’s tutorial mission, Lost_Lasagna embarked on this challenge only after they reached Jemison, the home planet of Starfield‘s New Atlantis. It was at this point that the player opted to sell all of their worldly possessions and start their star-system-hopping adventure as a feral forest person rather than someone fast-tracked to a Constellation membership due to a severe case of main character energy. The fan explained that they always found the game’s introductory sequence to be too “forced,” citing that as the main reason why they wanted to try something different this time around.

Starfield Player Praises ‘Starbum’ Challenge Run Experience

Lost_Lasagna ultimately found this challenge run to be a welcome improvement compared to the intended pace of the game’s introductory sequence. “It was the most fun I’ve had, honestly,” the player wrote on Reddit, noting how the opening hours of their adventure were much more satisfying to overcome with zero head-start on resources. In order to make matters even more interesting, Lost_Lasagna decided not to steal and was primarily reliant on combat for all their credit needs. They ultimately managed to save up enough money for their own spaceship after about four hours, which they found to be well worth the effort.

It was the most fun I’ve had, honestly.

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At one point, Bethesda was planning on making Starfield much more hardcore than the RPG that it ended up shipping in 2023. While forcing players to spend hours running around a forest naked, Lost_Lasagna-style, was likely never on the table, features like a realistic fuel system and more immersive building mechanics were once in the pipeline. But Bethesda eventually ended up cutting many such ideas, with executive producer Todd Howard previously revealing this would have often happened if a feature was deemed a “fun killer.”


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