The Ultimate Guide to Not Dying (Immediately) in Arena Breakout: Infinite
Welcome to the Dark Zone. It's a miserable, terrifying place filled with loot, death, and a lot of people who are much, much better than you. Let's fix that last part.
So, you’ve downloaded Arena Breakout: Infinite, the latest entry in the genre I like to call "Pain Simulators 2025." It’s a hardcore, hyper-realistic extraction shooter that has been chewing up and spitting out new players since it hit Steam. The game offers no hand-holding. The learning curve is a sheer cliff face that you're expected to climb while being shot at.
The good news is that every death is a lesson. I've poured thousands of hours into games like this when I was younger and actually had…time… and I've compiled the most critical lessons I've learned. This guide covers everything from the gear you take in to the mindset you need to actually make it out alive.
The Six Inches Between Your Ears
1. Check Your Ego
You are going to die. A lot. When you do, stop blaming "luck" or "desync." Watch the killcam, see how badly you just got outplayed, and accept that it was 99% your fault. Humility is the first step to getting better.
2. Stop Fearing Squads
Hearing four sets of footsteps doesn't mean "I'm fucked." It means "They're fucked." A four-man team is just four confused idiots screaming over each other on Discord. A disciplined solo player is a hundred times more dangerous. See them as a loud, inconvenient loot delivery service.
3. Play Like a Predator, Not a Rat
Hiding in a bush for 30 minutes is boring, and it won't make you better at the game. The only way to win fights is to take fights. Be aggressive, learn the combat, and stop playing like you're just trying to survive. Predators survive; prey ends up on a 'Killed by' screen.
4. Ditch Gear Fear
That shiny M4 you've been "saving" is useless in your stash. It's just a bunch of pixels gathering dust. Take it out, use it, and lose it. Gear is a tool, a consumable. The sooner you accept that everything you own is temporary, the sooner you'll play without that crippling fear holding you back.
The Art of Not Being Poor
5. Master the Stash Tetris
Your inventory space is precious. Stop hoarding. Sell dog tags, non-meta attachments, most food, and those garbage T3 armors. To save space, take the pistol grips and magazines off your guns in storage. This simple trick cuts their required storage space in half.
6. Play the Market Smart
Don't waste your limited weekly selling slots on pocket change. If an item won't sell for more than 4,000 Koen after the fee, just sell it to a contact. You're not a stockbroker, you're a mercenary. Act like it.
7. Stalk Your Contacts
Check Deke every single time his inventory refreshes. You can find insane deals on armor, guns, and items to flip on the market for an easy profit. Backpack barters from other contacts are also almost always cheaper than buying them outright.
8. Stop Hoarding Attachments
No, you don't need seven different 4x scopes. Pick a few setups you actually like and sell the rest. A cluttered stash leads to a cluttered mind, and a cluttered mind gets you killed because you couldn't find your damn painkillers.
How to Move Without Getting Shot
9. Your Knife Makes You Fast
This isn't Call of Duty, but the principle is the same. Pulling out your melee weapon makes you move faster and uses the least amount of stamina. When you need to cross an open field and pray to God, that's the tool for the job.
10. Crosshair Placement is Free Kills
This is the most important skill in any FPS, period. Keep your crosshair at head or chest level at all times. Stop aiming at the floor. You will be amazed how many fights you win just by being ready before the other guy.
11. Lean on Everything but Your Laurels
You should be leaning around every single corner. And for the love of god, stop left-hand peeking. A right-hand peek exposes a tiny sliver of your body. A left-hand peek shows the enemy your entire life story, your social security number, and your PIN code before you can even see them.
12. Stop Sprinting Everywhere
Sound is everything. Sprinting makes you sound like a rhino falling down a flight of stairs. Walk. You'll move almost as fast, make a fraction of the noise, and you'll actually be able to hear the guy sprinting at you.
Making Other People Die
13. Pre-Med Before You Ded
If you're heading into a hot zone or hear footsteps, pop a painkiller before the fight. Getting your leg blacked out while you're exposed is a death sentence. Being high as a kite on painkillers is just good sense.
14. Move After You Shoot
After you get a kill or even just pop off a few rounds, move. The killcam just gave away your exact position, and that guy's buddies are already on their way to avenge him. You have about 30 seconds to find a new, clever angle. Use them.
15. Use Nades as Tools, Not Toys
Don't just chuck grenades hoping for a kill. Throw an un-cooked grenade to force an enemy out of a powerful position, then push them while they're scrambling. Hear an enemy pulling a pin? Rush them. They're holding a potato, not a gun.
16. Know Your Firing Modes
Full-auto is for rooms, not fields. Anything past 20 meters, switch to semi-auto and go for precise headshots. You'll be more accurate, you'll conserve ammo, and you won't look like an idiot spraying at a silhouette two football fields away.
17. Hipfire is Your Friend
If an enemy is close enough to smell your fear (let's say 5 meters), do not aim down your sights. It's a waste of time that will get you killed. Go to the firing range and practice point-firing until you can do it in your sleep.
God's Loneliest Hoarder
18. Ammo > Gun
Your bullet is what gets the kill, not the gun. Always, always use at least Level 3 ammo. Anything lower is just going to aggressively tickle their armor. It is infinitely better to run a cheap, beat-up AK with good ammo than a decked-out meta HK with trash ammo.
19. Loot Faster, Live Longer
The most dangerous thing you can do is stand still. Learn the item values so you're not googling prices in the middle of a raid. If a rig offers more slots than it takes up, just grab the whole thing and sort it out later in a safe, dark corner.
20. Armor Has a Nasty Downside
That T6 armor might stop a bullet, but it's heavy as hell and murders your mobility. Moving like a refrigerator will get you killed more often than a bullet will. Always check the mobility and ergonomics debuffs before you strap on that armor. Sometimes, being faster is better than being tougher.
This is a lot to take in, I know. But this is the path. Stop playing like a scared little rat, start playing like a predator. Learn the systems, master the mechanics, and soon you'll be the one sending other players back to the lobby. Now get out there and get that loot.