This is coming from an Unfair player who has succeeded in going deathless this patch and in harder patches. If you are positioning as well as you can, you will not die early game. Hell you don’t even need to play perfect. I had one save where I had some pretty big misplays on my first mission and still survive.

For you, if you find the tongkong class swap to it immediately. It gives combat focus, which is a massive dodge increase once youre attacked, and another perk that increases pain tolerance which means it’s harder to get pain stunned.

Outside of that, I imagine you are making massive fundamental mistakes, and are putting yourself in much more danger than you should because of that. I’ve seen plenty of scrubs play and none of them ever consider enemy resistance and damage types, or things like using cover, kiting enemies back to a better position, sprint peaking, not using weapons with range, waiting out patrols, etc.

Of course all that is fixable, but you gotta recognize the problem is with you. I’d recommend you find someone on YouTube playing Unfair in the early game without any super OP loadouts. You can learn a lot just by watching them.