Nova

Hold positions where enemies must appear inside ~7 metres: doorways, corner wraps, and post-flash pushes.

Aim upper-chest to neck — pellet spread turns that hold point into head hits.

Farm anti-ecos: at $900 per kill, a double-kill Nova round out-earns almost anything else in the game.

Reload shells constantly between fights; the per-shell reload can be interrupted the moment a fight starts.

Never take open-ground fights — beyond 10 metres you are holding a $1,050 noisemaker.

On T-side force rounds, a Nova lurking a close flank routinely swings "unwinnable" rounds.