RPG pro-tip

[13thPalace]

I've heard that some people are finding the combat unfair, with the enemies doing high damage. But you should know, that enemies don't scale with your level, they scale with story progress. So, if you find enemies impossibly difficult, you should just level up, then come back.

[Flaccid Penile]

Also, as with all Spiders games, upgrading equipment/weapons makes a massive difference.

[***]

Even if you level up it still will be rather hard,
To become better at battle is in my experience in Mars WL, disabling ability is most important.

For example :
Wounding disable enemy that keeps blocking and dodging so they can't do so.
Electric good for disabling shielded enemy, that normally always block attacks and guns in front.
Bomb/ traps useful to disable all kind of enemies, but costly.
Gun and Melee can be used for wounding. Critical always hit I think with higher damage but don't disable them like wounding.

If you can master all of them game is much more easy.

[joxertm22]

Mars had OP nail guns, so... a few nails, any boss is dealt with.
I hope nothing is OP here for some challenge. Of course not everyone likes challenge so hopefully there is also a story mode for those who want to experience the story and couldn't care less for combat. ;)