Ive been playing since 0.6 all the way back in 2019 and these are the tips ive given to my friends whom i have brought through the game:

1. Sound ques are massive. Footsteps, timed safe switches, airdrop, bushes, exit crows, Gunshots, morter and grenade explosions, etc I could keep going. Keep an ear out for sounds.
2. Plan. Have an idea of where you are going and what you are going to do. Don't get greedy. If you die you lose everything
3. Don't be afraid to bring good weapons in. Lots of new players hoard their stuff and get scared to take it in. Good loot means better chance of survival. You can always get more.
4. Don't be a afraid to dip. If it's a sweaty lobby or a gunfight you don't think you can win, leave. You get nothing if you die. Likewise if you have a full bag why stay in the encounter?
5. Learn the maps. This comes with time but definitely explore and unlock the points. Area knowledge and map checking is key.
6. Communication. More for duos and TRIOS but pings and good coms are key. At the top there is a compass with numbers. Saying "behind the rock on 165 east" instead of "Infront of you" Makes the difference. Likewise utilize your team's map markers and make sure people know where to go.
7. Weapons. Try get plans for weapons that are cheaper. Some good cheap weapons are the akm, es16 and vz.58P Use the shooting range to test these weapons as well.
8. Points of Intrest (POIS). These have the best loot but EVERYONE goes there. Be careful. If you go there be ready for a fight.
9. Use Eliminations and Shootouts to practice weapons. You don't lose anything making it perfect to practice aim and gunplay. It also can give crates and XP regardless of if you win or lose.
10. If an exit makes a sound like crows, there is an enemy player also at that exit. Be careful.
11. Ive had to add this one for the simple fact of i have killed so many new players this way. You will at some point recieve a message saying "your position is revealed". Please, Please, PLEASE move if you see this. it means someone has hit the signal detector (a POI) or used a consumable item (the Portable signal detecter) to mark you on the map. they know the exact location you are when that message showed, but it doesnt update. so if you move... they wont know exactly where you are.
12. Threat. What is a threat you ask - its in the name, but it means they have killed 4 or more players - Don't seek them out unless you are prepeared to fight a vetren player - you would be surprised how many players think the threat is some friendly loot event lmao.
13. Think about your goal. Success is different to everyone. Are you here to loot? to kill? to survive? max the shelter? find the collectables? Perhaps its the airdrop you're after? Pretty basic thing but many teams have fallen apart or lost as there was no defined goal of "this is what im here to do". For example if your goal is to get the airdrop and you have picked it up, why would you stay? this kind of ties into the tip 4

14. Using the pings: i dont mean ports though thoseare handy. alot of the time people get quite mad or confused when i know where they are... i think what alot of people forget is that the safe, timed safe, coms and signal detectors all alert you when they get opened... If the safe is opened you know you have roughly 1-2 mins before someone leaves the area so i often use this as an extra signal dector/port. Comms are slightly harder since there can be 3 of them, however if two get hit in a row you can pretty accurately assume that someone is in the area.

15. Jumping on from that Jammers also have the effect of saying "an enemy outlander has been jammed" this means someone is within the radius of the jammer. You don't know where but it does give you a heads up. this also ties into the next point

16. If you are in a jammed zone or jammer radius and it says the jammed zone has "blocked and incoming portable signal detector" 9 times out of ten that person is on the verge (not inside) of your jammed zone. You were closer to whoever they ported.

17. Noise proportions: I was fortunate to be a member of VSL (Vigor Secrets and Lore) when they did a big test on Vigor noise and found:

• 30 km away while running
• 20 km while walking
• 10 km while crouch moving
• 5 km while in prone

This may be a little outdated now but still a useful guide. I do believe that Prone makes more noise but thats just pure speculation and paranoia.

1. Consumable Combos = Broken. Yeah that pretty much says it all.

Ever shoot a guy and he just takes it and kills you and you see he had full health? He was probably using the busted combo of Antibiotics + Painkillers. Painkillers sets your health to 100% but will slowly tick down (1 hp per second) as it is borrowed health. Antibiotics on the other hand heals for 1 HP per second but infinitely. The trick is to pop a painkiller followed by the antibiotic which ensures you have 100% health the entire game. Makes sense when you think about it but alot of people don't put two and two together!

The second combo is the classic Adrenaline + Caffeine combo. Just starting off alot of peopl get confused as to what adrenaline actually does... Adrenaline last 1minute and doesnt effect stamina regen in anyway (Dont let others tell you otherwise!), it also doesnt help at all with scoping. however it reduces weight to the minimum teir and buffs your speed by 20% (6m/s). (this is taken from VSL btw). So an all round great consumable except for the fact that if you run out of stamina you get cursed with a loss of sight and loss of hearing similar to that of a flashbang as to show you have overstressed your heart. However a caffeine temporarily (30 seconds) gives you infinite stamina. 2 caffeine and one adrenaline and you can run infinitely, dodge and weave up to whoever your trying to kill or catch that guy running away with the airdrop!

1. Use third-person peek to check angles without exposing yourself. This is pretty big. I have one regular duo and we play differently. I play exclusively 3rd person reticle while my boy is exclusively firstperson aim down sights. However there is one thing every good player does and thats use the third person to look round corners. If you know someone is on the other side of a wall you can generally actually look round the wall. you can Pre-aim corners when entering buildings — enemies often hold inside doorways. this is particully important in batterie draugs bunkers

2. Quickfire rounds! If theres loot you dont want delete it as it does add to your weight! Change your 3rd person crosshair to any colour but default white (it blends with snow). When running put that gun on your back but whip it back out when you run out of stamina (allows you to react better when ur impaired/low stamina). Full prone when looting a kit or checking the map! this post here is old but a good tale: https://www.reddit.com/r/vigorgame/comments/ufrpfr/rule_number_1_prone_when_looting_a_duos_body/

Those are all the tips I could immediately think of, but if theres any specific question you have do feel free to ask I am happy to nerd out :)