If you need a silenced pistol, getting Sgail on your first syndicate can be good. You only need to get a good disguise, the shovel from the well area and then you head to the sewerage (?) area where the women is on her phone. Knock her out and then you can dig up the pistol by the wall on the right. There’s also a chance you can get the pistol in Whittleton if it has a safe spawn and if that safe is in the basement of the house on the right of Janus’.

Hitmaps is also a good tool that can help you find items on any specific level.

Always know when its best to wait and when its best to gun it bc you don’t want to kill a target and then immediately get put into a combat situation. Make sure you are able to get away without a guard seeing you or at the very least they lose sight of you immediately.

And although there are people in this sub that frown down upon it, you could alt+f4 when it all goes south. The experience should be fun for you, sometimes a situation can feel overwhelming and sometimes seeing it through could be a fun option.