You are the guy

When you start playing this game, you're told that you're just a lowly scav, a maggot feeding on the corpses of an endless war. A creature that lives in perpetual shadow, while the "chads" are battling it out. The game makes you believe that you should be afraid of every encounter, sneaking your way through the battlefield. You’re not the guy after all, right?

Wrong! You are actually the guy! While reckless, direct encounters might get you killed, you’re actually much, much stronger than the game wants you to believe. Anything short of a mech is trivial to kill if you use cover and flank or third party them. Get yourself a gun with a silencer that does around 200 damage and 500 rounds of ammunition and go to town. Playing aggressively is actually much easier than sneaking around. The enemies are too inconsistent and erratic for stealth to be a reliable option right now. Maybe stealth will get buffed in the future, but currently it's actually much easier to play as the guy. Give it a try!