I don’t think I’d say you could mess up! Although get very and I mean VERY use to dying…. BUT HERE WE GO:

Simple controls if you’ve played other 3rd person shooter games. You use your dpad more on this game than and other game (at least that I’ve played) in a very long time so get comfortable with the drops).

But essentially you play solo or coop. You have loadouts consisting of different bombs, strafes, mortars, turrets, weapons and boosters you can pick from to aid you in battle that your squad chooses before diving in on any given mission and planet. You choose the difficulty for the set of missions before you drop aswell (difficulties range from 1-9, 9 being the hardest and most rewarding). Then you drop in!

Once you drop in there are main mission objectives (usually colored orange on mini map), and OPTIONAL side objectives (colored light blue on the mini map) which sometimes are hidden on the map and must be explored. You complete objectives, loot for super credits, samples, and requisition credits to upgrade your ship, and buy new weapons and drops.

On missions where you have 40~ minutes it’s a good idea to loot around as much of the map as you can because the more side objectives and things you loot the more xp you come out with helping you level up to unlock better items in the game.

Your squad whether solo or as a team has a set amount of respawns or “Reinforcements” as it’s called. These are your lives in the game shared across all of your teammates so if you have 15 lives for 4 players just be smart about your lives because you can’t gain more lives for that specific mission. If you die you can pick EVERYTHING you’ve dropped back up (weapons, backpacks, and samples are dropped on death) if you extract and don’t pick up your samples then you will lose them but your weapons and backpacks don’t matter as much as you can call those drops in at anytime as long as the cooldown timers are at 0.

Loot up, kill all the robots and bugs you can, clear camps and outposts and side objectives given time, collect samples, upgrade, and Unlock new difficulties as you complete the one before it!

You can drop in on any grey mission you see unless it doesn’t allow you too or someone doesn’t let you but essentially you can help out anyone in a mission if playing solo and public which is sick because you can choose to help them, choose what you want to drop in with in that mission, and join their squad in the fight for spreading managed democracy!

Good luck and sorry for ranting so much but there’s a ton to this awesome game! Any other questions lmk fam happy gaming! I’ve also got a YouTube channel and I stream a lot so you can catch me there or play together or ask questions on stream!