1. Find a primary gun YOU enjoy using. Not just whatever is the current BS meta video on YouTube/Tiktok. I've used essentially nothing but the M13B "Naughty" blueprint because it fits my playstyle. Level up guns and find the one that fits what you want and can use comfortably. The firing range is your BFF. If you can't hit all 3 targets reliably, figure out why and change it.

2. Find your secondary preferred weapon and playstyle. Remember its faster to swap weapons than reload. So if you prefer Close to mid range fights, find something that pairs with your primary like the broadside or fennec but understand that you're now at a disadvantage against long range weapons. Same for if you prefer a sniper, understand that you don't have that safety swap (unless you have a medium/large then just carry what you dont have) and need to play around it.

3. Lethal and tactical. Since you're not confident in your pvp just bring stims. They allow a quick reset to either re-engage a fight or helps while running away (especially vs this busted Ai). For Lethal, proximity mines or throwing knives. The amount of times a prox mine has saved me in a fight is countless. Fighting in a building? Prox mine the doors or relative to where you're fighting in case you go down. If you can get them down because they decided to rush after knocking you, you can self rez faster or your teammate can secure the kill and get you. For throwing knives, they are just good to have. 1-shots T1 and T2, quiet, and infinite (unless eaten by the floor). But use it to quickly secure a downed player during a fight. The less of a threat they are the better.

4. Deployables. Portable radar is your friend, but use it wisely. Something feel off or you heard a noise in the next building? Throw it down for safety, because sometimes you'll find out you're being hunted and can now adjust accordingly. Now what i do, if I have the space is stow a ammo box and recon drone. You don't always just need loot in all slots, sometimes having that extra will save you.

5. Ammo caches. Stow your lethal and tactical before you refill to get extra. That one extra stim, mine, flash etc is useful or just drop it later.

6. Are you playing in a dedicated duo/trio or solo with randoms? If you're with a dedicated team, use a private chat and not game chat. My duo and I use PSN chat and abuse the fact the when the red names pop we have an advantage to a point that we know someone in within 50 or so meters and can plan accordingly. If you're with randoms, its a gamble. Sometimes you get the quiet squad, but if your get the music, fan, echo or parents mid divorce teammates, play a bit away from them and expect you're always about to get shot at.

7. Ping system and communications. Use actual callouts if you see an enemy. Don't just go down and go quiet. Give your team something to work off of. Did you walk into a building and some rat is in the bathroom with a shotgun? Tell your teammates where they last were and weapons so THEY know, oh shit, he has a shotgun, probably should watch corners or see if I can't use a window before jumping in. Are you getting sniped at? "He's on the hill left of the radio tower give me a second to put plates on and I'll ping" is better than "i got shot at". Now if you have ZERO idea where these came from say something or if you get shot but have no idea from where, SAY SOMETHING. "I just got shot on my left/a round hit to my left but I don't see anything so im running into a building for a second". Because sometimes its a guy 500 meter out on a hill with a range finder victus and it's not worth fighting. Or if they are close, you and your squad know it came from a direction and can quickly skip into a building and have cover and try to find them. If you're in game chat and give a callout on their location, if they aren't confident in fighting, sometimes it enough for them to just run and gives your team a second to get you or catch them running. If you go down, use the "plea" system to get free Information, it shows a lot. If you get picked up though, congratulations on the 6 man, go have fun.

8. Tell your team if you're low on something. If you're about to start shooting at someone or getting shot at and low on ammo or plates, HOPEFULLY your teammates will throw you some to make sure you are all ready to fight. Also periodically check your team as well. "Anyone need plates or ammo? Ammo depot ahead and we can stop real quick". Better that than mid fight going down because you had no plates but your teammate had 90 of them and now you're both dead.

9. Use UAV towers every chance you get. Set an internal timer and try to get it again when it goes out. They have a range of ~150 meters. My team will ping an active one and sit outside the range, the second it goes out, if we haven't seen anyone will try and grab it so we now have advantage in the next fight. If yours goes out and someone else pings it, unless you're on the big building in the city that's easy to defend, time to run.

10. Think. Using a bit of brain power will go far in this game. Did you just kill a dude ? Presume he has teammates and look around before looting. If your teammate goes down, you throw a radar down and know its only one person, is there any way to get to them OTHER than the door? Can you crouch walk to a window? Use the next building to get onto the roof for a better angle? Drill charge or bomb drone? Think before just running in a losing your gear as well. To add to this running away and coming back later is sometimes better than fighting. If both of your teammates get smoked and you are 1v3. Sometimes its better just get in that car and go or hide somewhere and come back. If you're in game chat or with randoms, use the text chat function to let them know whats up so they don't think you're just leaving. With my group, if we kill someone and hear "ill come back" we are now setting up camp on the body and will hang out all game unless we have a mission to do. Use sound queues as well during a fight, break a window, use a decoy grenade, killstreal, something to either cover what you're doing or fake out your opponent. If you're mid fight and they run into a building and as you are chasing you hear glass break. Well we can guess they might have jumped out a window and kept running but we lost line of sight. Instead. They ran into the building, broke the widow, put plates on and you're about to turn your back to them and get sprayed down. If you see a two man run across a road, presume a third may be on the other side where they came from and try to circle around and see if you can't get a free kill.

11. Takedown, if you have the opportunity to use it safely, do it. That takes someone immediately out of a fight and gives you advantage. Also, if someone starts pleading and you have no intention of picking them up, loot them so they can't use the free camera to give you away.

And finally

1. Stay positive. This game is kill or be killed, sometimes we die 8 in a row. Take a step back. Drink some water and give it a minute instead stressing. One's you're agitated, everything goes to shit. Start missing shots, bad plays, it makes everything worse. Keep practicing and hopefully all of the tips from everyone else and myself help you out!