My Starfield character randomly shoots / attacks

Hi. My name is Brilliant and I am happy to assist you today.

You can find known issues within the Starfield Space and see if any of them offer any solution. Kindly visit: https://answers.microsoft.com/thread/b1ac114c-7799-4946-b8f8-1c50ad5926d5

You can also try repair your game and see if that does the trick.
1. Open the Xbox app for Windows.
2. In My Library, select the game title.
3. Select the More options (…) button and choose Manage.
4. Select Files and then Verify and repair.

For more details on the above kindly visit: https://support.xbox.com/help/games-apps/troubleshooting/troubleshoot-games-windows-10

I hope this helps resolve your query.

I think it boils down to what the attack actually is. I noticed a similar thing when playing as the witch doctor. Why do I bother equipping a knife when all my character does is shoot darts and throw bottles at people?

fight off knife attacks, shoot down choppers with an ATTACK boat! body surf!

Talon Mercenary. Unfortunately, a pretty glitchy and weak character.

The omni-bow attacks, or strong melee, when maxed out at the expense of shields still take 4 attacks to take out a marauder on silver. And if you go for 100% bow strength you are left w/ 625 shields and health so it overal isn't worth it to use the only appeal
of this character.

And the bow attacks suffer from the same problem as sniper auto aim, locking onto random enemies. It also sometimes freezes and remains locked on but doesn't shoot.

One other quirk is though it autoaims, you can manuallly autoaim it, but it requires holding the melee button down and using the right thumb stick with one thumb.

The memories of shooting attackers out of the sky on Nelson Bay rush. Need to get this game back off my mate.