First time out on the plains of Cetus, I learned how to determine an enemy's level... two seconds after I opened fire on it.
Warframe. Just started it last night.
I can see why they put cetus so close to the beginning.. Hey we got this new open world! Lets place it so that everyone can enjoy it! *proceeds to make the enemies soak up unmodded mk1-braton bullets like sponges as they shoot nuclear missiles back at you*
Just as a heads up, fortuna is a similar deal. I was MR 16 at the time and I still had trouble soloing the opening story missions on the vallis until I broke out my Zephyr Prime and riven'd corinth.
My death:
A friend decided to get me playing starbound with him again. Using the frackin universe mod. First task is to build a communal base. Sure with BYOS we can just build on our ships, but that's not as fun, so we basically just limit ourselves to some essentials and a small garden on our ships.
Crystal world. Seems nice. We take over a NPC town for our basebuilding needs. Do a few quests for locals, nick all the locals valuables including the walls, spend 2 whole sessions, roughly 4 hours total on the planet, exploring, Surface level mining, and converting the village into a base.
Then the meteor showers start. My friend apparently did not notice the meteor icon in the planet's weather panel. And we got incredibly lucky (unlucky?) that the meteor storm weather never got picked during our explorations, so we never saw it until we were already well established.
Base was leveled, just about all NPCs killed (especially the ones on my side as I had commandeered their structures into the construction of a half built space elevator giving them no shelter whatsoever like a good leader). Livestock all lost, as we lack the tools to relocate the few that survived.
RIP the bases "Cat tower"(his) and "The People's Republic of Best Tower"(mine)
Starbound Frackin' Universe mod