I was wondering if there's any tips on how to survive long enough without a mutant coming in and shooting your face off. *no pun intended* So i have played the game got killed many of times majority of them were extremely uncalled fo, and I was wondering how do.I survive? *no jokes about the survival guide book please* For both GOTY and Regular games would be nice

Sneak is your best friend in this game. I really can't think of a time when my characters are not sneaking (other than talking to friendly NPCs). Also, if you don't have a sniper rifle, get the one that is on the backside of Megaton, almost opposite of the entrance in a hollowed out rock. Your not shooting with it (it;s almost broken), but scoping out your path. No enemies spawn all of sudden in this game, so you can see them before you get to them.

If you see a bed or bedroll or matt, sleep for an hour to fully heal, this will save your stimpacks for battles. Hotkey your stimpacks.

Once your level 15 or so, dieing becomes much less of an issue.

Yeah, you need to scope out your paths and keep an eye on your compass for enemy blips. As CCNA said, no enemies just spawn out of nowhere, unless you count some of the random event things, but those are negligible.