🧭 Beginner guide
- Scout the city unmasked.
- Start with a corner store and decide your exit beforehand.
- Park facing the exit.
- Losing a fight? Surrender: you keep equipped gear and lose only the bag.
- Sell loot and pick up the cash. Open a bank account (as a civilian) and launder.
- Save for a plot. You can only rent in an owned settlement.
- Join a clan; you can switch any time.
- Look for workbenches and modules, not just guns.
- On the last day cash out, don’t build.
Older video guides may be outdated: the launch patch changed starter gear and badges.