Switching up tactics

I prefer to land "soft" or with no more than 1 other team because I can more likely control my next moves.  If there's one other team I can likely engage in a fair fight.  If there's no other teams I can loot and then pick a fight that I feel is fair.  Me and my friends are not good enough to fend off multiple teams simultaneously, so that's part of the reason.  But I also don't hot-drop because much is too reliant on loot/luck, in my opinion. And even if I do happen to land on a shield and decent gun, and win my first fight, I'm likely to be 3rd-partied before I can heal or run away and get ready for the next fight. 

But that's strictly early game.  Mid-game I prefer not to just wait.  I prefer to push fights as long as I'm not at an obvious disadvantage, such as when I know there's another team real close or we're pinched, making it inevitable we'll be 3rd-partied right away. 

So ultimately, if I die and it's a fair fight/we're both looted equally, even if it's early, I'm good with it.  It's just the situations where I die so early with no shield vs. a shield or a Mozambique vs. ANYTHING else I get frustrated.  But again, part of that is my skill-level.  I'm sure many of you win those fights frequently, but I am no such guy, so I opt for less traffic early-on.