After playing this adventure so far the difficulty is way too hard for people who have never played before.
We were playing with 5 PC's and every encounter was unreasonably punishing, the first encounter the party got utterly bushwhacked by the enemies, we all took a bunch of structure damage, one mech went down, and despite us making fairly good tactical plays, we only barely scraped a win out of that first encounter.
In the second encounter we got into, it feels unreasonable that the enemies have 10 activations over our 5 player activations. Given we struggled in an encounter where the enemy had between 6-8 activations compared to our 5, making us have to fight more activations, is unfair.
If the purpose of this module is to introduce people to Lancer, its an awful way to introduce them to how the game works, it feels extremely harsh and unwelcoming to anyone who hadn't already played Lancer before, and knows how to abuse the L0 mech builds.