I cannot see any enemies?

[Sparkymilarky]

I die dozens of times, I've not yet seen a SINGLE enemy. I just get shot from some bush.

How are you supposed to see people laying in a bush 300m away? I just don't get how people find enemies in this game.

[Imperial Patriot]

Stop running and look around for muzzle flashes and smoke. You try seeing someone prone in the grass 300m away in real life and see how well you do. You need to play this game a bit slower than you would Battlefield. It's a slower and more tactical game.

[Agnus_SatchelGuy]

Originally posted by Sparkymilarky:

I die dozens of times, I've not yet seen a SINGLE enemy. I just get shot from some bush.

How are you supposed to see people laying in a bush 300m away? I just don't get how people find enemies in this game.

Oh, everybody went through that.
I suggest you to start with a more supportive and less fighting role.
Try to use the support or the engineer role, they get lots of points and are easy to learn.
With support you usually stay on alert if anyone need supplies for buildings or garrisons, so you follow squad leader and with one of your box you can build a garrison inside blue zone. A garrison is a team spawn, not only squad.
Engineer, try to ask commander for a supply truck, and you can go around to build resource nodes, essential to win a battle in the long run. You can also fortify some areas, like closing with barbed wire some narrow paths or barricading and covering open fields strongpoints.
Those are essential roles for a victory, and they also provide a lot of points, especially nodes, good to level up.

With some time you will get hand at what to except from people. How they behave and fight and slowly you will get better.
Don't expect to flank enemies and kill 10 guys like on operation metro in battleifeld.
In this game pretty much each corner, each trench, each window has an enemy. Playing a slow attack and be ready to fall back is key to win.
And if you have a good commander and support him you can pretty much always win.
Today I got 4 victories in a row 5-0 while commanding because I had an amazing engineer team. So, just to give you an idea it's not always about fighting this game

[TWB*Clell_Miller]

Originally posted by Sparkymilarky:

I die dozens of times, I've not yet seen a SINGLE enemy. I just get shot from some bush.

How are you supposed to see people laying in a bush 300m away? I just don't get how people find enemies in this game.

Okay... let me bring you up to speed on Squad and HLL 101. Forget about any FPS you have ever been engaged in. THIS one is vastly different. It behaves according to the laws of physics, and gravity, and most important of all, human sight capabilities. Let's start there. I've made this analogy SO many times before. Imagine you are in a meadow 300 meters wide. Surrounded by forest. You have a friend at your side, The friend is armed with a ww2 rifle. Perhaps a kar 98 or a garand M1. You tell him to conceal himself somewhere in the edge of the forest out of direct vision with you remaining visible within his gunsights. Your task is to cross that meadow without being shot multiple times. Do you now begin to understand what you are up against? The environment you are operating within? I hope so. This is no kid game. Get scared, get cautious.

[Jonny Sparta]

As said, move slow. Bound from cover to cover.
Stay aware of the lines of sight you are exposed to.
Orient yourself with the map before respawning and try to maintain a situation awareness of where the main threat direction is.

Dont go through the breach first, unless you are the one who knows where enemies are.
Watch teammates ahead of you for where they get shot from.

Try to stick with groups (your squad preferably) so that you're not the only one watching the area around you for heads popping up to shoot.

[TheThunderBirds]

When I first started I was the same as you always wondering where I was getting shot from. WIth over 800 hours on this game it comes with experience and getting to know the maps and having situational awareness. Knowing what's going on around (listening to distinct weapon sounds) to know if enemies are nearby. Also, tweak your graphics settings according to this video. Monoespacial makes some very good videos for new players as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HUIHMijkZw

[wubbelflup]

Another tip i would give as Someone who often does the shooting. I often sit in a bush staring at my screen shooting enemies 3 pixels high.

My biggest enemy? Someone who doesn't cross fields without looking, but stays near the edge, watches his comrades die, detects where they're shot from, then shoots back.

Sound, mussle flashes, and the map are your best tools.

I memorized the gun sounds of different factions. Well. You'll only need to remember the germans really ;)

Will take a while but You got this!
Get a mic though. 6 eyes see more than one.

[Birdy]

Don't be the guy in front. Let the fools and braves run in to take the hits, and look for the shots they create.

Focus on not getting hit before focusing on getting the hits. 20 seconds of your time waiting for opportunities is more valuable than the minutes you spend getting back to the line.

Don't just rush too, or past the front, the actual functional front is closer than you think. Get to the spots just behind where everyone is getting killed. These are the positions you harden to create openings in the enemy lines.

Don't be afraid to take those long shots, unless your sneaking in places you don't want the enemy to know you are in. There is bullet job outside of something like 200m (not sure when it really take effect,) you can hit moving targets, and better yet, still targets far away.

When rounding corners, gaps, openings, bake up and take a wide sweeping angle to nudge your way through the firing zones.

Use your grenades and drop your supplies all the time.

ROCKETS. They kill infantry and are great for hitting windows from a far.

SATCHELS. They have a spherical blast radius that will kill anything in it regardless of structures. Bomb building with players in the upper floors and be sure to inform the people around you that you have.


Those are my general tips.

[agrez]

COMMUNICATE WITH SQUAD STAY WITH SQUAD

[JD]

A method that was used in Vietnam works great today also in game. It's called "Recon By Fire". Means what it says. Hose down an area and see what falls out of it. Use the suggestions already mentioned here. Great ones. Then apply them all. You'll get better as time goes on. Key word here is SLOWLY. See you in the trenches!

[Owen]

Observing enemies whilst you're moving is hard unless they are also moving and/or they badly silhouette themselves in an open field or some such.

Be map aware, flick the map open every now and then make a mental note of which direction the enemy is most likely to be in and approximately how close so you can concentrate your efforts in a limited area.

Conversely, use the map to try and recognise sources of concealment for yourself like walls, rivers, hedges, etc.

When observing, moving the camera as little as possible will make detecting movement easier.

Avoid silhouetting yourself above low walls and in windows, peek when possible.

As mentioned by others, the guns all have quite distinct sounds which you will learn to recognise and help you home in on an enemy position.

Would definitely not recommend 'recon by fire' as this will completely telegraph your position and get you killed.