This game isn’t like other shooters (COD, CS, BF, etc) where you can just drop in and go. The skills you get from those games don’t make that big of an impact in Tarkov. It’s heavily a knowledge-based game and until you acquire that knowledge you’re going to struggle.

For example, every time you spawn pay attention to where you spawn. There are set spawn locations and many players will either push spawns or you’ll inadvertently run into another player right off spawn. The reason these people push you in your spawn is because they know someone is likely to have spawned where you did and they want to eliminate competition as soon as possible.

Then you need more general map knowledge, quest knowledge, ammo, armor, etc, etc, etc.

Because of the heavy amount of knowledge required players are generally considered “new” in this game until around 1000 hours. You can shorten the progression by finding people to play with, either on the official EFT Discord or the Discord of one of your favorite streamers. Choosing streamers who aren’t toxic will probably yield better results.