It seems to never fail with Atomic sometimes.

He is in Boulder City and went to do the whole sneak around and free the NCR survivors. The badguys notice this and before I can react I'm being pumped full of lead. Even though I had my gun out, it was instance. Three guys pumping me with their 10mm submachines.

Same thing happened in Nelson. Dead Sea talks to me and before I can even react, I'm being chain pumped with 10mm bullets.

I am tired of dying because of unfair fights. Where like the whole army decides to agro me, despite me being the sneaky sort. Got about 50 in my sneak right now.

There are many means of survival in NV.

Grenades, perhaps?

suppress your weapon and make sure you're hidden before you shoot, you can kill anyone that way without the rest turning hostile. or explosives. that solves everything.

Character doesn't focus on explosives. He's a sneaky scientist gunslinger. *nods*

edit:

The problem with the Boulder City one is they immediatedly detect me when they get untied. Even though I am hidden the whole entire time. When the NCR troops get up and the gun fire begins they immediatedly detect me.

then.... stab them in the face with a knife?

I can do that??

Yes.

Edit- [censored], I forgot the spoiler...

If you can't do the above then simply kill them all stealthily before you untie the soldiers.

Guess I'll have to do that. He doesn't have a great speech skill and that's why I didn't choose that option

takes 50 if i remember correctly.

I did it one time. It's not too hard, all of the sentries are scripted in their locations and patrols/routines if I remember correctly so it's very easy to quickly learn and exploit them.

You do realize that you have the option to negotiate a release of those hostages right? You can just walk right in and not a shot will be fired by anyone.

He didn't have the speech skill. This character doesn't focus on speech. He's a gunslinging scientist who sneaks around. The point of the character is to sneak and do the things he has to do without getting into fights or talking to people to do so.

45 actually, which can be fortified.

silent running perk and a stealth boy. kill all the kahns that are outside before freeing the hostage.

dead sea is a scripted enounter which overrides a sneak using a stealth boy. there are several scripted encounters in the game which will override a stealth boy sneak. keep that in mind while playing the game while sneaking around.

did you tried the diplomatic way , not only saves alot of ammo but it helps later in the game when dealing with the khans

I don't have 45 Speech.

I have 28 Speech

The way this was suppose to work was:

-Atomic sneaks around

-Atomic frees NCR

-NCR and Khans battle while Atomic sneaks away quietly without battling

The Dead Sea thing was a I forgot inside was a script and then I had to run from being pumped full of lead.