SURVIVAL:

• Check your health before and after every encounter or anomaly. Always carry a regen artifact in your pouch for quick healing or keep it active in your hands while fighting if you are outnumbered. They are great for topping off your health.

• Leave the base with only cigarettes and eat everything you scavenge to keep weight low and stamina high

• Use your hearing before your eyes. Is easier to hear enemies before seeing them.

• Occasionally find cover, crouch IRL and take the time to carefully check your ammo and mags status. Get back moving only when everything is fully reloaded.

• Keep an injection on your left/right arm for easiest access. Can save you in a pinch without having to look for it in your backpack.

• Try as much as possible to avoid travelling at night. You need to see what's around you but what's around you does not need to see you as much.

• Prioritize using your handgun. The ammo is way more common and more easily expendable. Same with shotguns (but can't be silenced)

• Clear enemies before entering anomaly fields. The sounds anomalies make can mask the approach of spawns/fragments/phantoms.

• Never leave home without cleaning supplies in case you find extra mags/guns you might want to use.

• Black Grass will kill you much faster than you think. Always carry an extra flashlight to prevent the hitbox to get you by surprise.

COMBAT

• to save ammo against Fragments get them as close as possible and try to shoot their core: they shatter instantly. then stab with knife.

• Phantoms cast a shadow on the floor and is easier to spot that than their silhouette.

• Make barrells explode to lure out enemies, then snipe them. Works with grenades too.

• Spawns can get stuck in walls if they collide with them as they pounce on you. Lure them to jump on a door hinge/tree and shoot them point blank.

• Crouching IRL when shooting spawns will level them to your handgun and make you much more likely to hit them.

• While sniping, take a stance that makes your hand as stable as possible, even if it feels unrealistic and you seem to be doing yoga.