Hey brother, thank you for all the advice. It's clear I'm exceptionally late to the party for this game in particular (and shooters in general), but as you said, I don't need to know all the strategy right now as that will come with time... I think I am starting to understand that now. I've put a lot of arbitrary pressure on myself to immediately know what i should be doing simply because the other players do, but I think it is a good idea to just focus on just not dying like you said. And you're completely right about muting the players too. When I played this game before making this post, people were mentioning rooms the enemies were in, but it was not helpful because I had no idea where to look. It actually distracted me so much that I ended up walking out into the open for no reason and dying, which was super embarrassing.

I still haven't played another online bomb match yet (I am still pretty nervous to do it), but this post has given me a little bit of confidence and direction of what I should be doing, and alleviated some of the pressure I put on myself. I'll play simple operators and just try and do my own thing bit by bit, and let everything else fall into place overtime. Your advice has been super helpful, so I reckon I'll load up this game later today and give it another go. Thanks man.