2) From your manifest, you've obviously skipped straight to the expensive packs. Don't do this. There are a few reasons for this.
a) The first one is the amount of consumables you get per game - playing silver, you are buying 99k packs every 3 games, and getting 1 5-card of consumables (medigel, rockets, ops packs, and thermal clip packs) from it. Unsurprisingly, you are riding the edge of no medigel. Buying the smaller packs will get you a better distribution of consumables.
Second, the cheapest, most powerful upgrades in the game are the common and uncommon weapon mods. The extended barrels give you a flat 25% damage upgrade to the equipped weapon, for the cheap cost of 5 common, or uncommon mods. In comparison, most guns give you a 25% damage upgrade from level I to level X, which is twice the levels, at a much steeper cost per level. The armor negation mods are even more invaluable, especially before you have a good stash of equipment (ammo cards) to use. Armor in this game works as a flat damage reduction modifier. On silver, the damage reduction is 25 points of damage, I believe? So on fast firing weapon, you are doing 5 damage per shot without armor mitigation. Your shotguns are suffering the damage reduction x8, since it is per pellet. Other weapons are stiflingly frustrating to use without the extended Magazine, c) Turns out that a level 1 rare or ultra rare is heavy, low on ammo, and the majority of gold wepaons really aren't very good. A fully levelled Mantis, or most of the uncommon weapons, will serve you far better than a low level rare, and given both the much smaller pool and the cheaper cost for a guarenteed drop, you can have that level X Mattock in a fraction of the time. (Note - there are some exceptions to this rule. A level 1 Acolyte is worth using on classes that really benefit from the weapon, such as the Fury. Also, most URs will serve you well at level 1 on Bronze and Silver. On gold you're better off with that maxed Mattock probably.)
3) As expected from a new player, you're not using your ops packs at all. Learn to use them.
4) Projectile weapons, projectile weapons... they have weird mechanics compared to the hit-scans. The trajectory is calculated on-host, which means that if you're a client and lagging, you will miss perfectly fine shots. Even when you're not lagging, the likelihood of a shot doing no damage is a lot higher. They have perfect stagger, and often a radius of impact meaning you don't have to aim at all, and do not suffer armor mitigation. In return, they cannot penetrate (wall hacking is a very significant mechanic to high DPS), and do very relatively little damage - the Adas especially has very unfortunate DPS. I would stick to using hit-scan weapons if you have any basic shooter skills - and even if you don't, to be honest.
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