there are no " things to give you and edge " for this game everything emportent is serverside. and you can easily get an edge in the game just by getting a higher ego and getting better weapons and gear, iv been playing for about 3 days now and have some nice weapons that do some heavy damage. a little tip stick to only 2 weapons till your about ego lvl 300+ in order to max them out. once maxed out use the slavage matrix to reset there mastery on them so u can keep get lvls in your weapons the higher the weapon masaty the better your guns get. another thing that iv learned save up key codes and get the tear 4 loot boxes. thay dtop good high quality loot. weapon wise. atleast. also if you can find a few good players to team up with it makes the game polay run faster story mission wise. other then that the company that made defiance frowns super heavy on " utilitys " anyway so you get busted with it you might as well kiss the game good bye because thay will ban you permanitly if you get cought more then onces . hope this helped a little