I bought this game on the Sumner sale. It's awesome I really like it and already dumped 12 hours in like 2 days. But I'm completely lost. Every mission I just follow other higher level people and shoot at enemies but I really don't know what's going on at all for the most part. What I'm most confused about is the MO thing and all the different planets. I don't know what any of it means or what I'm contributing to. It seems different planets actually have different enemies or something? Also so far I find the squids to be the most difficult. I did a lot of bug and bot missions the first day and never felt like I had too much challenge. But the squids are kicking my ass. And not just me but the other people on my team. Surprisingly I end up with the most kills every time but I've yet to even finish a full operation with squids. Every time we get completely swarmed everyone starts rage quitting or we end up failing on the generator defense missions.

I also notice the illuminate have the least people at all times, even when the main objective says to go there there's significantly more people fighting bugs. People in game all say they hate squids.

Online people say they hate them too but not due to difficulty but rather boredom/too easy. I find them really challenging though.

Things I also don't understand:
>the storyline etc
>penetration and how to select weapons
>personal objectives

I'm having fun but I also feel lost asf the entire time like a rookie expendable just being told to shoot and don't die and leave the thinking to someone else. Which is cool but I wanna understand more. How do I get smart?