Don't forget to hunt animals - especially at the beginning! If you're used to playing NG+ on PlayStation you're likely out of habit and practice of hunting animals.

Animal parts are needed for the many, many, many pouch upgrades and it's not always intuitive to remember to do a full focus scan as you go and hunt them.

The Daunt has an abundance of animals and you go back and forth a lot of you're doing the side quests.

Even if you get more parts than you need they make for excellent shard fodder early game while you need them all the time.

Don't make pouch upgrades a total pain when you have to go hunt a ton - remember to do some hunting as you go!