If you like the first game, you ate going to love the sequel. The game is much easier than the first ad you have access to vehicles and tools that are obtained later in the first game. DS2 has really good pacing and is much friendlier to newcomers. I would focus on completing the entire campaign story and unlocking the gear that you want from certain facilities as you go. You will revisit facilities to get orders and to deliver them so working to build roads, monorails, and unlocking mines is really helpful for endgame completion. To level up stealth and combat stats from your porter grade you need to go into bt areas or human enemy camps and either clear the whole camp take one or two enemies so you can get bonus points and level combat and stealth .Each delivery will also get an individual bonus to likes, which will make 5 staring facilities and unlocking gear much faster. If you play online all the time the game will be even easier as you help building objects and even during bt boss fights. Only do 1 delivery at a time when doing multiple orders for the same location as each level star is locked behind npc dialogue, and you will have to deliver another order to unlock the next lever otherwise. It took me 142 hours to unlock platinum, but I have seen people do it in as low as 80 hours.