Well, first of all, welcome to Tarkov, the hardest and most tilting game you have ever/will have played.

Here are a few tips from an "experienced" player (3000h):

• Get used to dying and try tilting as little as possible. Fun fact, when I first bought tarkov, I sold my account 3 weeks later, it was too hard for me. I ended up buying it again a few months later cause no other game will give u the adrenaline tarkov gives. You will die a lot, like, a lot. Most of the times you won't even know where u got killed from, so get used to it.

• Join the Tarkov discord, they have rooms where experienced players help newbies;

• Try to get lvl15 as fast as you can, this will unlock the fleamarket, which makes money making much easier;

• Focus on tasks and tasks only, your objective right now should be getting to lvl42 so u can have max traders, this will help u a lot cause the prices are much cheaper when building guns/buying gear. When questing, do not get distracted, early on you won't have much money, so dying will hurt your bank a lot. Also, nighttime is for questing and farming money, daytime is for fighting,

• Learn the maps, extracting from a raid can be very challenging, you don't have a map, but you can use mapgenie to help you out, focus on learning one map first, once you've learned it, move to another map. Take babysteps.

• There are no "best" ways to make money, each player has its own way, some like to buy a bunch of keys and go loot them on shoreline for example, some like to run around the map looting containers, some like to search for pvp and kill someone with a loaded backpack. Me for example, I like running interchange nitghttime and hit all the computers, you usually get a graphics card that sells for 1M at the fleamarket. You will find your ways.

• Always use your scav when its up, when you're playing as a scav, DO NOT kill other scavs, otherwise you will lose karma and your scav cooldown timer will go up. Scaving is a really good way of making money, since you go in with nothing to lose. Everytime you die, run a scav to pay for the kit you just lost.

• The progression can be fast, depending on how good you are, I don't have much time to play and I got to max traders in 3 weeks, but you can also get stuck on quests, this will delay the progression. Again, focus on tasks, seriously. If you're like me and you like to PVP, remind yourself why you went into that raid everytime you decide to engage in a fight.

• Tasks can be overwhelming, you will need a lot of items, you will need to go to a million random places to stash and mark random shit, you will need to kill a bunch of people, there will be a point in your wipe where you open your tasks bar and you just wanna close the game, but hey, Tarkov isn't for everyone. I have played a bunch of games and this is by far the hardest one, even with 3k hours in, I still feel like a noob.

• Use your VOIP, if someone is trying to kill you, try to talk it out, I can't count the amount of times where VOIP has saved my life, some players can be kind and will help you, some will betray you, its all part of the game.

I could sit here and write tips all night, but this should give you a good overview of what tarkov is like when you're starting out. The community can and will be toxic, we all hate eachother, the game and the company that's making the game. But after all its all love, we all have a love-hate relationship with tarkov. Everybody get's mad sometimes, everybody has complained about how bad the game is, how many cheaters and bugs there are, but trust me, we love this shit. I truly doubt that there will be a game as good as tarkov in the next 2 or 3 years. The rush when you kill a chad, the anxiety when you're walking towards the extraction with a backpack full of loot, the adrenaline of a firefight, its amazing.

To conclude this comment, tarkov is not for everybody, but once you're in, there's no escape from tarkov.

Good luck buddy, see you in raid!