Is this normal? I've been trying to get through season 1 for a while and everytime I die I lose EVERYTHING! This game has one of the toughest starts I've ever played...!
Yup, that's the game!.
Biggest tips that helped me were, take it easy and explore everything, money, scrap coins, upgrades and blueprints are extremely important to progress, also, don't just charge headlong into a fight, plan ahead, have a strategy to each fight, if you play it like a shmup, you'll be on a hiding to nothing.
Temp shields are very important, as many as you can get, and once you see them starting to go, turn and run and let them recharge because once they go, they're gone till you buy more.
So wait, perhaps I misunderstood the game last night. It made it seemed like if I quit the game, even while on the main ship in between missions, it would not keep my progress unless I got through 5 episodes and did not die. Is that not the case?
Can I do Mission 1, quit the game, fire it back up, and it will start with playing Mission 2?
If so completely ignore my previous impression, as I thought you could not do the above.
You can back out once you finished (and are back at the ship) say Season 1 - Episode 3 and come back later, and everything will be as you left it.
You lose pretty much everything apart from (completely unlocked?, as some have multiple requirements, i.e. 1 of 2) blueprints if you die and when you finish a season.
