Why is no one talking about crawl speed?

But if you get * gear you can't compete. Which is where I feel I am. I don't feel I ever get gear that's competitive.
The loadout building for me is tedious and frustrating. OR...the learning curve to be good at it is just long.

Sometimes its frustrating when someone gets purple and you have alternator with one clip yeah but after 5min ingame if you are still alive you should be able to compete with nearly anything, meaning shooting head on with someone might not be the answer every time.

Appreciate the perspective (and sorry if we got off on the wrong foot)
"after 5min ingame if you are still alive you should be able to compete with nearly anything"
That hasn't been my experience. I've gotten down to 6 squads or left several times with my son because we were mostly being stealthy. None of those times except 1 did I feel I was geared out well and even then we were still out weaponed by meta gear.
I just haven't found it to be a well rounded experience. Learning curve is way beyond my patience level.

Its fast paced game and being stealthy isnt great, maybe this game isn't for you and you should try pubg where such tactics work better.

I've considered it. Especially that it came to PSN.
It's the developer for Pubg kind of shady though?
I've heard bad things about them.
I just don't think BR is for me. I don't really play pvp to be 'overly competitive'.
I like playing against other people because pve is boring but I don't need such a high level of competition. Not really why I play