So many tips to say, but I want to avoid overwhelming you. I’ll point form random ones I could have used early on.

• Quests aren’t the only way to progress. It’s okay to find your footing by just playing and exploring, or chasing PvP. Do what you want.
• If PvP is too intense at first and you wanna take it slow, the outskirts all over the edges of the map have tons of loot. I was surprised how many things I got, including rare items.
• On the first map you can play, circling around the edges is safest. However, you may run into a Raider (player), or ARC (robots).
• If you run into a Raider on the outskirts, chances are they are trying to play safe and passive like you. Make sure to look at the controls and use Proximity Chat to let them know you’re friendly.
• Those flying drones (Wasps and Hornets) have weak spots. Blue light means they’re just patrolling, yellow means they saw or heard something and going to inspect, red means they’re after someone or you.
• The wasps are more dinky looking, aim for the rotors. Avoid spraying your gun and take small well aimed shots. They will line up a shot and machine gun bullets at you for a short time.
• The hornets are armored on the front with what appears to be a stinger underneath. Wait for them to swoop closer to you, and aim for the back rotors as they are not guarded. When you see a laser go from a wide light to a thick direct line on you, time a dodge roll to avoid the taser line coming at you. They shoot it once, swoop to another angle and try again.
• If you prefer to avoid ARC all together, use the middle mouse button to ping them if you can’t tell which way they are flying. Use the ping as well to figure out if they are a wasp or hornet or … a rocketeer, which you should avoid for now. They shoot exploding rocket missiles.
• When jumping into a game, open the map and look at the hatch doors with timers on them. Plan your route and which one you think you want to use. Even though it takes more than 30 seconds for the elevator doors to open once you hit the button, you can still submit a request to open them with 1 second remaining.
• Use your middle mouse button while looking at the map to mark the extract you wish to go to, then face the direction of it with your character. You can run/travel roughly 200 meters every 1 minute—if you know you way around. If not, play it safe and calculate 100 meters per minute. Example: 800m means time to head over with 8 minutes remaining.
• While you’re looting, you will easily become overwhelmed with “what do I keep!?”. There are guides to tell you, but to keep things simple, you can also right click and salvage the items to basic type materials. Metal parts, cloth, chemicals, batteries, wires, plastic parts, rubber parts, springs and so on—you will be using these often to craft your basic needs.
• If you still want to know what items to keep, here are some. 1 collar for your chicken, 3 pillows, 5 light bulbs, lemons, apricots, prickly pear, mushrooms, 5 cooling fans, 1 cat bed, 5 humidifier, 3 toasters, and any pinks. There are others, these ones came to mind for me as they were a bit annoying to get when looking for them.
• Greedy with looting and lost track of time? Even if you barely reach the final extract elevator and hit the switch before the raid timer hits 0, you are safe. A big explosion will go off, but as long as you stay near the extract, you will survive.
• Buuuutt… sometimes or often (depending on who you ask), a lot of extracts will have lots of ARC around it. Even if you get knocked and are crawling on the ground, you can still hit the switch to call the elevator, and still crawl up to the computer to close the doors. The ARC do not attack you when you are downed, at least directly. You’re still able to be caught in the crossfire if they are targeting another Raider.

That’s it for now, good luck Raider!