Just to ask again, what classes are people playing? I'm having a lot of fun with the Assaulter, but damn, I've made some stupid decisions! I forget the name of that intense health recharge syringe in the inventory from the beginning of the game, but I used it out in the field when approaching a Mercenary base.
Do not do that. At least, do not inject the contents of that syringe without a) finding a safe place and b) have enough food for the ridiculous hunger that'll beset you when you wake up from your near overdose. I squatted in the cement sabo slip that ran up towards the Merc base, near midday, and injected. Shit got weird, I fell backwards and woke up six hours later the rapidly darkening chill of the evening, utterly famished with blurred vision and not even a strip of irradiated pork to chew.
I should have turned back, but like an idiot, I went to scout out the outskirts of the base. I couldn't keep straight vision, kept shaking my head to concentrate...and couldn't make out some Mercs getting a bead on me.
Needless to say, I got shot. And bled out on a hillside, with an empty stomach and many regrets.