So I went walkabout straight after talking to cosworth and the environment is visually stunning! After saving the settlers in concord I had a few rounds spare for the minimum and wanted to go perk hunting but it does seem a little too quiet out there?
Anyone else finding a slight but noticeable lack of enemies in between locations?.
Managed to find Abernathy farm early on and complete the quest there which led to another mini gun and another suit of power armour and found a stash of fusion cells at wicked shipping..... My problem is I have all the ingredients for a rampage in the wasteland but finding it hard to find many bad guys ( so I can get Lord death, bonus damage vs insects etc but killing a few dozen)

I've been seeing radstags, feral ghouls, bloatflies, roaches, mirelurks, mole rats, mongrels, and raiders in the little over 6 hours I've already played.

Maybe you're just not looking hard enough?

What i′ve een so far confirms the topic starter impression. Few enemies, few houses to loot (80 % of Concorde houses are inaccesible). I′m playing on hard and died several times because of those 2 dragon flies (entrance of Concorde) and the 3 mongrels at the the exit. I′m level 5 and have put all points in non combat perks, wich makes the lack of pure skill stats even more noticable.

Concord is actually a lot bigger than most FO3 settlements and has far more houses to loot and open buildings than say Goodsprings or Primm in early FNV.

I've faced the opposite problem: too many enemies. Constantly spawning meaning I'm always fighting from place to place, rather than wandering and exploring.

The only problem I'm having is not enough ammo and too little Stimpacks.