Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandorais an eagerly awaited open-world action adventure game that is based on the Avatar series, and now it’s available. The game stands out for its impressive visuals and incorporates typical open-world features from exploring different locations, crafting your gear, and battling your way through the storyline.

As you advance, facing the RDA becomes a challenge, and depending solely on your bow may not suffice early in the game. Fortunately, there’s a way to acquire a shotgun early on. This will help you significantly expedite your ability to deal with RDA enemies early in the game.

Avatar Frontiers Of Pandora Shotgun weapon from the character menu

How To Get The Shotgun Early In The Game

Once you’ve navigated through the tutorial area and entered the open world of Pandora, your journey willlead you to the Resistance Headquarters camp. Along the way, you might have noticeda locked yellow boxthat can’t open.

That’s the box holding our first shotgun, but before that, we need to acquirespecial equipment for it.

Player obtained SID hacking gun Avatar Frontiers Of Pandora

When you arrive at the Resistance Headquarters, as part of the main story, you’ll meetAlexandar Tremayne. He’ll give you theSID hacking gun.

After a quick tutorial on how to use the gun, you’ll have it permanently.

A circle showing the Fueling Station location on the map Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

The SID gun lets youhack RDA security, including unlocking those yellow supply boxes.

With the SID in hand, go back to theFueling Station southeast of the Resistance Headquarters. Look for a yellow chestnear an abandoned truck, or use yourNa’vi sensesto highlight it.

Avatar Frontiers Of Pandora hacking

Stand in front of the chest, use your SID hacking gun, andinteract with it. This will bring up a menu with ahacking puzzle to solve.

Upon completion, the supply box will unlock,granting you your very first shotgun in the game.

The shotgun proves to be a powerful close-range weapon against RDA enemies, especially the AMP ones.