Yeah the resource nodes show up on the main map. They are little dots and if you mouse (controller) over them, it will tell you what the resource is. These are all over the map, like I said, little dots, kind of hard to see at first.
I myself got to lv 17 and yeah, good game so far. Only bug I ran into was one world event last night could not finish because one mob would never come out of the building to finish it, He was still shit talking me, but would never come out. Other than that its been really smooth.
My kid still has the 100% CPU thing though which is a shame.
On the dying thing, I seem to rarely die so far. Only way I die is if I get too impatient and run in like rambo and then get swarmed by those bitches that come at you with the nightstick. Or this one mission last night when they were lobbing mortars at me. (Huge blast radius) Didnt really know WTF was happening because I was getting fucked even behind cover. But once I realized WTF was going on, all it took was to prioritize killing the faggots that were running towards the mortar first to keep it clear.
Favorite weapon is the police M4, definitely a god tier leveling weapon. Can craft that shit after opening up the recipe, pretty cheap too so you can pretty much keep it same level as you, slap on an extended mag and the thing becomes like an M60 but a lazer to boot with 60 rounds. M60 is my 2nd favorite because its a bullet hose (Can also craft). But I do like the DMR style for my secondary. They seem to chunk the enemies health really nicely.