First, I have the feeling that the game now is much harder than before. I quit playing after some fights because getting killed all the time is not really fun.
I will try again on easy mode and if I die there too all the time, I might complain.
So far I could beat all my Larian games (DD, D2, D:OS1) on normal without big problems.
I think I have read somewhere that before the part we see comes a tutorial area where you are on the ship and then there is that explosion.
The tutorial dungeon of D:OS1 was very nice to show you how puzzles, traps and environment effects work. Without playing D:OS1 before, I would have really big problems in D:OS2 now.

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