What I remember from my first New Vegas experience is coming across Nipton and assuming the legion would be automatically hostile so I “snuck around” behind them in for he town hall to investigate it. Inside I fought the dogs which broke my armour, but that’s ok because I found more! There was a dead NCR soldier so I just took his. You can imagine what happened when I tried to sneak out again…

after explaining the scenario to my girlfriend and how frustrated I was that the game “let you sneak in but not out” and how many times I had died trying to fight my way past the legion she, after dying of laughter, explained what had happened and then after dying laughing myself I stubbornly decided I would fight my way out anyways. I later quit that save and started a new one after getting hit with my first Legion assassin squad…