I forgot how awful I was at this game

Coming in as a new player to 2042 but old player to BF yeah I get what you mean. I do pretty well with vehicles luckily thanks to just BF experience in general, but yeah in infantry firefights it's a tossup, and sniping was a hot mess. I can't really say much because I'll still do an occasional game where I'll go 12-24 and often if I'm infantry only wind up maybe 17-14 or 14-15 but I will say while it generally sucks and I avoid playing infantry as much as possible when I do I stick to basically one maxim- don't stop moving. Unless I'm 100% confident my position has a narrow corridor I can camp or I am actively firing, I'm jittering left right forward back constantly. That, and the secondary sawn off shotgun is fantastic whenever I'm worried I'm about to get jumped from an angle I don't expect, OHK from point blank hipfire is so good in tight spaces where someone decided to be cheeky and climb over a fence or go around to the backdoor. 

But yeah even with that, I 100% can say it's not really a fun experience to constantly have to tap dance knowing if I don't I'm going to be dead in a half second.