QUOTE(SubRosa @ Feb 21 2013, 02:26 PM)
I missed Megaton my first time as well. After leaving the vault, I turned around and looked back at the big hill it was built into. Naturally I had to climb up to see what was there. That led to a firefight with the raiders living on the raised highway that runs to the north. Of course you can never kill just one raider, so the next thing I knew I was at the end of the highway, looking down at the ground far below and wondering if I could jump down onto the wreckage halfway down. It hurt, but I made it. So there I was in the middle of the map, just wandering around.
GAAAAH! You must have put all your points into strength! I found myself on that bridge and kept dying and dying - it was loaded with Raiders. But when I finally got past the truck blockade I was blinded by a glitch in the fabric, missing textures or meshes that created streaks in the screen that couldn't be seen through. In trying to seek cover from getting shot to death I fell off the bridge - did not live through it.
I finally ended up swimming across the river below and then just drinking Rad-X as soon as I got my hands on some. (there is some in a sunken boat in the river)
(the same missing meshes thing happened in Minefield the closer I got to that back corner).