It turns out the secret was to just forget your guns and high tech missile launchers and the fact that you have legs and just fly towards the thing and punch it in the chin with your laser sword until it dies.
Once I beat the skill-check tutorial boss I've been making some progress. I won my first AC fight, murdering the student driver, and I've been making progress becoming more efficient and skilled with the AC and the weaponry.
I'll have to assume this happened while I was dropping off the body at the morgue, Detective. But we really have to get back to the case.Fuck yeah! Make sure you do all available training missions. They give you gear and teach useful stuff.
Replay missions or when you get to the chapter boss you'll want to die. Baltus will eat you alive unless you grind a bit for some gear that eats shields
