I’ve been heading out with knife only since I keep running into teamers, as many as 4. There’s no point in engaging in a gunfight 1v4.
Also, it’s pretty easy to avoid getting killed as the gunplay isn’t where it should be. I take great pleasure in getting someone to chase me and waste their ammo. It’s even more satisfying if they do kill me after burning through most of their ammo and wasting a lot of looting time—and all they get is a knife. XD
Sometimes I’ll bring a Mosin Nagant into Fjell-whatever to hide by the lake entrance to the tunnel and wait for people to get slowed by the water for an easy kill, but that’s about it until teaming is dealt with.