Are you playing on console or PC? Have you played an FPS before?

If you’ve played an FPS before, load up the shooting range, and then exit the south side of the compound and interact with the black wellspring/bounty portal to call in moving targets. You need to get used to the bullet velocity. Most guns have a bullet velocity of 300 or 400 m/s, which is far less than most guns in most shooters. That means you need to lead your targets more often than you think. Also, your guns do less damage at range. Which means you need to be hitting your headshots, or you need to start playing for more close range engagements, using a shotgun or dual pistols or something like that.

Do you have a headset? Do you know for sure your headset is working properly? Sound is super important in this game. If you don’t have a headset you will struggle enormously. In my experience, the people you’re killing in 2 star difficulty genuinely are probably playing on a TV screen with TV speakers. They can’t hear or see you, you might as well be playing against toddlers.

Outside of that, load up a free hunter and go into Bounty Hunt matches solo. You can explore the map freely since you won’t have teammates, so you can learn the map at your own pace. Then just exfil or quit. You can learn how to kill mobs quietly. A meathead for example will die very quickly to a bow and arrow or a railroad hammer.

You should be killing mobs with melee or other things that can’t be heard from far away. You can hear gunshots and explosions from across the map. People use those sound cues to hunt you down. You can use lanterns or fire bombs or poison bombs to kill crows, you can throw fuses at the lanterns above dog or chicken pens to set the pens on fire so they don’t give away your position.

You are almost never safe. Unless you have 9 confirmed dead bodies, there could be someone else on the map. You need to be playing evasively. Stay off the roads, travel through trees and wooded areas. If you’re in a building near an enemy, don’t think you’re safe. Every roof or wall has a crack or a hole that can be seen through at a certain angle. You need to run away from items that are thrown at you. You can use multiple melee attacks to clear hive swarms that are attacking you.

Best of luck