I loved how FC5 is balanced in such a way that you could skip the youtube research and simply learn by exploring and being careful, as doing things out of order did not have a huge impact, and the game's behavior was very intuitive.

But I quickly discovered that in New Dawn learning and doing certain things early is quite important. For example, doing all level 1 challenges as early as possible, as they become harder to do once you upgrade your base and thus you start encountering harder enemies that are much harder to kill if you try to do it with lvl 1 weapons., Or that things become easier if you get certain companions or upgrade certain things in the base first. Or the fact that you can encounter some very tough / legendary animals that you can't possibly kill with the initial weapons almost immediately as you leave the main base.

I won't say more for those that still prefer to discover the game randomly, but for the rest I recommend watching a few "beginner" tips videos and making a plan of exploration/action.