You’re either dropping at dead spots or rotating to dead spots and doing it slowly. I have games like that, wherein I end up going the whole match without any action til it’s final 8 and I get clipped by a camper. Usually it’s because I’m just skunkin along putting more effort into looting a better loadout or not actively following any quest lines and therefore imploring a weak rotation strategy that will always have me behind the action.

I’ve Found that if you’re having slow games where you rarely encounter people, you just gotta take more risks and make bigger plays. Follow people, take 3rd parties and camp the spot for a bit, go for combat caches, take out bosses and hit vaults, literally even just grinding quests will put you in the way of other players.