i agree, the worst part of the game is the beginning. When i first started my opinion was "the game is a piece of sh*t, boring" no instructions were given in the starting town, nothing. You simply run around getting owned by scorpions and raiders until you reach a populated area like NCR (took me 1 day to get to it due to random encounters and random respawns) to ask for help. Now i got 2 level 21 chars and the game got fun (craft time killing it for me) but still i remember being a lvl 1 bluesuit starting at the den and was making my way to NCR. When i finally got close to NCR i got killed by raiders and the random spawn spawned me at the den.....Yes this game needs startin instructions and "noob quests". I like the idea suggested by someone that every bluesuits starts at the same area (custom made by devs) heavily guarded and given noob quests to get used to the game.