New player started last week, #1 lesson learned
Played through the campaign, learned a little of how the skill tree and weapon system works using psyker. Moved into playing damnation mode which seems to make your builds work better. Sometimes I get into some pretty good teams but the biggest lesson I'm learning so far is that when the group starts splitting up the game is basically over. You get one guy sprinting as far ahead as possible triggering all the spawns, the next guy exploring for crafting materials, the third sprinting ahead to not be left behind and then the slowest runner gets swarmed on all sides who dies, then the next guy gets swarmed and dies, the third gets mauled by a dog then blown up by a martyr unit and the first sprinter exits the game. The skills and the character banter all but explicitly tells you to play together. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Stick together as a unit and complete the match. Speed running just leads to spending more loading screens and less resources.