Is it plausible that the main mission difficulty has been affected by the changes in Reforged Eden? I was doing the main mission playthrough since the Reforged Eden seems to lpick up once you get off the planet, and the Strike Team mission from Forest of Stars gave me alot of trouble.

Specifically, I was basically killed multiple times through, and had to go through about a dozen corpse runs before my "death backpack" despawned. Correspondingly, it took me about 5-10 shots to kill the three Zirax mobs. Even with head shots, it took a fair amount, despite them killing me in 2-3 shots. These are all on easy game settings if that makes a difference.

Clarification: I'm following the main mission, so I have not created any base or vehicles. Just kind of assumed the Main Quest was effectively an extended tutorial, and that I'd be prompted to make a base, etc, at some point in the Main Story quest line.

All the same, is this kind of an expected outcome?