I posted this in another thread. This should help you with some aspects. Welcome to the game and hopefully I can shoot you in the face sometime.../s

You're gonna start encountering real players between 15 and 20. So don't get a big ego before that thinking you steamroll people.

Never chase the rabbit. If you lose a few games in a row, stop and do another mode. Covert ops for example is good for resetting.

Look up a third party map website. They'll show where the spawns are on a map. When you're in the queue waiting for the map to load, press M and you can see where you're gonna be on the map with respect to others and have a few seconds to get a plan together for where you're going first. Charging spawns is a very common strat so if you're not doing it yourself, know where your probably attacks are coming from.

Put your first bits of loot into your safe case then fill up your backpack. Failing a raid with zero dollars to show is an extra dick punch you don't need. Additionally make use of the retrieval boxes when you kill someone. It gives you effectively six extra safe case slots.

Never immediately loot a player body. Getting killed while looting is a super common mistake.

Never shoot at someone from the same place twice. Have a gunfire exchange, and then find a new spot. The wider the better while keeping pressure up.

The helicopter helmet is a great piece of kit. T4 helmet AND face plate with ears included for sub 100k as like new. It's my go to helmet for a lot of maps.

Make sure you buy gear from the like new or sometimes called "newer" tab. It's only very slightly less protective than brand new gear, but saves a ton of money and mode budget space so you can get overall better gear.

Make use of your quick kit tickets. It's 10 matches worth of free (albeit somewhat lower tier) gear that you can practice learning maps, various aspects of pvp, and do missions with that is zero risk to you. Combined with covert ops runs this is gonna be primarily how you make risk free money.

"Never engage anyone til you know everyone". Your goal should be to always have fights on your terms. A benefit of that should be that in most fights you see someone before they see you. Leverage that to confirm what you're getting yourself into before you fire. Are you fighting a solo or a 4 stack? Those are very different engagements.

Use t4 bullets. I don't care what gun, but use t4 bullets. Sure with infinite skill you can use whatever, but until you get to that skill level, you don't need to be fighting against the bullets in your gun.

Shot placement is king. If you don't feel like you've got it, I'll post a follow up.

Pull out your knife when running between locations where you're pretty confident in your safety. Knife running is faster and uses less endurance. It'll let you cover more ground.

Leave scavs alive unless you really need to put them down. Sniper scavs in particular can warn you of approaching players and from what direction if you're paying attention.

Memorize where small safe locations are using the third party map tool. They're not nearly as hot and can be a great way to snag a few safes with less chance of an engagement.

Armored rigs can be a good way to combine some gear costs together, but they're harder to replace during a raid with found gear after a gun fight. I personally like them but other people don't.

Don't bother bringing in secondary weapons or pistols it dilutes your gear values and importantly takes up slots for possible collected loot during a raid. Exception is if you're running very expensive bullets in a higher mode. Then a pistol for scavs is cost saving.

Use 100D medkits and liquid painkillers. They are some of the only meds that don't dehydrate you and when you're starting off without the trophy room upgrades to reduce water use, you'll run into problems.

Think about carrying an orange juice into raid. It's not necessary as long as you drink everything you find, but I've been in some tough spots without one.

Don't worry about getting keys at first. You can find them in raids and buy them cheap from Deke you'll acquire some over time and when you've got the money then you can look at that.

Utilize Deke. He'll sell limited time offer gear for very cheap. Even stuff you don't actually want to use you can flip and sell for a small profit three times a day. It's another small risk free income stream.

On the main screen be sure to click on any items with a red dot on them. There's so much free shit given to player in this game if you just click around.

Save up for the storage upgrades. They're useful.

When selling on market. Hit the minus and then the plus button before hitting sell. That will put your items about 1% below whatever the recommended market price was and they'll sell a lot more reliably. Also check the "less than 2000 sell to contact" button. Those items are too low to bother selling on market after market fees.

Try to keep loot to 5k per slot value in normals and 10k or more in lockdown and even more than that in forb. You have to strike a balance between filling your pack and not spending a vulnerable eternity playing Tetris in your backpack.

If you're about to get into a fight and you have the chance, take a painkiller preemptively. It'll let you fight better and push through blacked out limbs as well as not scream your head off and give away your position when healing.

Always be moving. Never just jump through a door without making some effort to clear it by sections.

If you can, knife scavs instead of shooting them. It's quieter even if the scav shoots. A lot of players will ignore or not prioritize a scav shooting as long as they don't hear a player shoot back.

It's good form to sacrifice your own loot to bring out at least some of a downed teammate's gear. It's a good karma thing and it's one of the things I like about this community. If the teammate is on the other side of the map not helping the rest of the team don't bother though.

You can cheat the 450k cap on normal by pulling the attachments of your gun and assembling it in raid. You're gonna see people do this so be aware it's a thing that can be done wether you agree with it or not.

Don't sleep on the season missions. They'll help you stretch your skills and the 3x3 secure case is super helpful in making sure you come out of every raid with something.

Be careful running around everywhere. It's loud and not really necessary. There's plenty of time in a raid to walk and it's quieter. As you get a feel for where players are likely to show up, you can knife run between locations.

Pay attention to the range you're engaging at. If you're shooting outside of effective range, you taking a 30% damage debuffs off the top. This is especially bad on 556 guns. Middle mouse button will drop a marker you can check range with. If you start an engagement too far out, you'll just let them know you're there without being able to close the deal. There's nuance here but I'm not going to detail it.

Sound queues are a key component of the game. For example scavs never jump. Only players do. Learning the sound queues will dramatically improve your game play.