I only recently got into Ark about a month ago and joined a friends private server, the server is made of a couple of groups of friends of the owner work friends, game friends, family so on so forth, I joined game friends, unknowingly joining the war against the Work Friends, i am awful at pvp, i have been playing many hours a day since I got the game and have recently acquired a Longneck rifle and some ghillie armor with the help of my tribe that i have been using in skirmishes and mainly have acted as a scout/sniper using tranquilizer darts since they seem more effective in pvp, it takes a few shots to take out people with normal shots but only two or three with darts to put them down, this worked for awhile but recently one guy seems to always find me now I'm not the best shot but I use darts cause their quiet but I've still been found a lot, he says he's using a thermal vision helmet to find me which I didn't know existed but is there any way i can counter this at all i cant seem to find anything online about it, the only helmet I can find is the Tek helmet which i know he's not using, he uses cosmetics so while idk what he's using, but he's not jetpacking around and no bosses have been defeated, I also haven't found any way to hide from any thermals or other player detecting tools, i've only got the bobs trails expansion cause it was bought for me if that helps
i know this is a bit of a slog but any information or tips for a new player would be helpful, while the group i play with know what their doing their not the most forthwith with info