Okay, so I started playing this game yesterday and I've learned most of it's mechanics. I spent multiple hours reading guides on this forum.

My first few matches in "battle academy" were pretty good. I ended my first match with 16 kills and 2 deaths.

When I noticed it was time to go in a real battle outside of "battle academy", I knew I was going to have trouble if I didn't join a squad from what I've read. So I found myself a nice squad of four people including myself and the leader decided that we would go in a domination match. I decided to use my starter dropping suits to make sure I didn't lose anything if things went south.

The good thing is that we won the match.
The bad thing is that I felt like I lost.

My "kdr" had reversed... I ended the match with 2 kills and 16 deaths and only got 500 warpoints.

I'm just... confused. I don't even know what went wrong. Trying to stay with my squad only made me die by some people on top of buildings... Trying to flank made me get rolled over by 3 heavily armored vehicles... Trying to hack the objective got me killed by people with advanced weapons and protos. Trying to stick to cover only made my agony last longer.

The only thing I could do most of the match was dropping drop uplinks near the objective for my teammates and I don't even know if it helped them at all !

I expected things to be hard, but not impossible !

The only thing I could "improve" is my gear, but I don't want to risk wasting cash on weapons or suits I won't even have time to try out before dying.

As I've already said, I'm very confused on what to do next... I like how the game works so much that I'd be ready to create new characters just to replay "battle academy" over and over. I'm too scared to go back into another match just to fail as much as last time.

Any suggestion ? All questions are welcome.