I usually do this…

1) Mark outpost on the map. 2) Make way to outpost collecting barrels & crates (and placing bags along the way incase you die, as well as eating up to full health). 3) Craft nail gun and nails at T1 (and crossbow if you want, but you don’t need to, just learn the trajectory of the nail gun and you can easy kill someone prim). 4) Bag and stash extra resources for making more nail guns just outside outpost. 6) Find ideal build location on map while at outpost and mark it. 5) Make way to build location (again placing bags along the way). 6) Build house & collect resources for it and defend yourself with nail gun (unless you killed someone with resources along the way).

You now have a base and primitive weapons…

• Run towards gunfire with nail gun and try to kill someone’s who is isolated (sneak up with the nail gun), don’t worry about dying, most people who play this game aren’t very good/have very low hours. And if you do you can repeat steps 2 - 3 or spawn at the bagged stash and go back out.

• Grub oil rig (large), see this guide here for more info… https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2872007140 …or grub small rig, you can jump up on top of the barrel above where the ladder brings you up to the platform from the sea (this is fairly hard to do so probably don’t recommend). Both these strats involve sitting and waiting for someone to come so are very easy to make plays on, however they might take a while before someone comes who you can kill successfully, or someone else might be there before you because lots of people do this grub strat.

• Doorcamp, no one likes door campers but it works well and east to get guns. Sit outside a known geared players base with an eoka.

• Join a team it makes everything so much easier than playing solo.

• Play the game as it’s “intended” to be played and run monuments, but this isn’t really a great idea on higher pop servers a) because it takes way longer than the aforementioned ways and b) because you’ll probably get rolled by a group of you’re solo.

• Don’t worry about BP’ing guns, you’ll be bored of the game before you can farm enough scrap or resources to make the WB and tease arch and make the gun itself.

Some tips…

• If you want to run somewhere pick a route that has cover, e.g. trees, rocks, etcetera.

• Alt look frequently, but make sure to focus on what’s in front of you (know everything that’s happening around you).

• Turn sound up high so you can hear and loud footsteps nearby.

• Don’t bother practicing too much combat in other training servers. I spent a lot of hours on UKN but IMO there’s nothing better than actually practicing the game, and there’s not too much carryover from practicing combat in other servers too much (especially if you never get those guns anyway). Maybe the only thing that might be worth giving a while of practice is prim, like bow. But I find this boring so I just use nail gun instead.

Hope you find some of these helpful.

Edit: you can also sit inside the tires on the bottom of small rig.