No idea what I'm doing

[Chaotic Entropy]

What am I supposed to do on a colony exactly.

Mission 2 of my latest pointless attempt to play this otherwise interesting looking game and I'm a tech, I see the yellow tower circles now so I avoid them and try to enter a building outside their range... an enemy is on the other side of the door. Another purple enemy instantly spawns next to me, my first move away from them I am insta-killed, death by burning.

Now I have to start from scratch. Again. I have learned and progressed absolutely nothing. What fun.

[David]

Hey there. For settlements it's best to just get in and out as soon as possible until you get familiar with them (or have better gear/upgrades). Generally, that means zipping around the settlement via the warp portals (check map) until you see the mission objective ping. Grab the objective, then head to the evac.

With a tech suit, you can hack sentinels/rovers, avoid the sensors, use turrets etc. You can also disable the towers with countermeasure upgrades (on the Common skill tree).

Don't forget you can also adjust the difficulty in the options menu - either by lowering the difficulty overall, or by reducing (or removing) the 'Wild Moons' features.

[Chaotic Entropy]

This was the 2nd mission, in which I unlock the Black Market, so there was no hope of having anything specifically unlocked and available that was appropriate for settlements. The objective being buried in a cluster of buildings I would have loved to have nipped in an out, but as I say the first door I opened I was spotted and then burned to death by something in one shot. This was within the 10-20 ticks of starting, with my health being nibbled at by the atmosphere, so it doesn't seem like there was much to be done.

[David]

Hmm, thanks for that. We'll take a look at these early settlement missions.