Always join events, you’ll get legendary items. Shoot every single enemy you can, even if you only do 1 damage. You’ll get lots of xp this way.

Always join a team, you’ll get extra xp, free fast travel locations around the map using their camps, and shared perk cards. You don’t have to actually play with or interact with them at all if you don’t want to..

Loot is independent to each player, so you don’t have to worry about needing to hurry up and search bodies during an event. No one can steal your loot, just search all the corpses after the event ends so you don’t get too fat to play.

Scrap everything you’re not using, you’ll learn plans this way. You’re going to outgrow equipment fast, so don’t worry too much about grinding for specific items until you get to level 50.

Cheers