Any tips for first time players? The last time I played I got through until a part where you need to go inside unlit rooms with weird monsters (that could see you through the walls, maybe a bug?) and I always were dry on resources. Is there any gameplay loop or some way to grind to have more stuff or you'll always have to avoid shooting/bashing mobs and run everywhere in the hope of they not catching you?
The subway section is unusually bad because the crawlers will sometimes cluster around the other side of a door, making it impossible to avoid them, but yeah, the game's pretty tough. There are a couple of stores that you can eventually access where you can trade for additional weaponry, one to the north of the area on the other side of the subway, and another one in act 3. If you want to to full-on turn the game from survival horror to action horror, though, I actually suggest using the cheats (there's an area you can access at the beginning of the game, from Juno's apartment, and also a separate cheats section in the menu). There's no in-game penalty, and imo it certainly doesn't make things too easy, since you still have to dodge, aim at, and shoot the enemies, it just gives you a consistent supply of ammo and weapons with which to do that.