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[Psychospacecow]

First off, you'll want max intelligence. It helps to get higher stats.
Sneak is generally recommended, if you can get some distance on yourself without much issue, I'd recommend guns simply because it sucks to be an energy weapons user in the early game. Speech will save your life in a lot of situations. medicine is a priority. Don't invest too deeply into survival unless you think it'll help your particular play style, and finish the tutorial so you can get that sweet sweet healing powder recipe. At some point, if you find that you've got 100 lockpick (late game), there is a special sniper rifle called the gobi campaign scout rifle near cottonwood cove. It is suppressed and fancy. If you find that you've got a high strength stat (I usually do for carrying purposes but its not all that important), Anti-Mat up. Use intense training over other perks for 5 or so levels. It'll help a lot more than lady killer, let me tell you that.
Also, if you anger one faction enough to where they start sending in their hit squads (which you probably will), start carrying land mines, run in the same direction they are so that you are running from them, and drop the landmines. boom.

edit: Of course, if you want to go for the non-anti snipers, 10 luck+finesse+1st recon beret guarantees a crit with them, making them more effective (this game doesn't do bad-at-close-range well)