System Shock 2 - playing for first time but need some tips?

[heartburnron]

So I'm really trying to get in to this game and am quite enjoying it but man it's so tough! I haven't really spent my upgrade currency yet so I'm currently trying to fight everything with my wrench and occasionally using the little ammo I find. This is fine if there are only a couple of enemies with metal bars at a time, but throw in some shotgun wielders, exploding robots and laser turrets and it turns in to a 5 - 10 reloaded attempts to get past certain sections. I've put in 8 hours and only completed 5 objectives. Whilst I like a challenge, I do get frustrated repeating the same part over again and again.

So is there certain skills, powers I should be upgrading to get an advantage?

 

[heartburnron]

Thanks for the replies. I think I'm going to start again as I have loads of the upgrade nano things but didn't go back to the upgrade stations to use them as I thought I'd get more of a feel for the game first. However I think I've gone too far as it's just stupidly hard at the moment and it's taking multiple attempts to get round every other corner. I really want to get in to this game but I'm getting more frustration than pleasure at the moment. Yeah, I think I'll park it for a couple of week and start a fresh...

This is another old game that supports 3440x1440 natively by the way...

 

[heartburnron]

You may wish to consider applying a mod which removes respawning enemies. I'm glad I did.

Ah yes I like that suggestion - will check that out. I'm sure in 1999 we were all still used to games being insanely difficult but I have to admit I'm really struggling with it. I think the difficulty level could be knocked down a couple of notches without taking anything away from the game...