Sadly the enjoyment of the new update letting you play as a ghoul was interrupted almost immediately. During the mission A fresh Pair of Genes where you take the inhaler and step into the nuke silo to become a ghoul. during the customization of your player, if your game happens to disconnect from the server (which mine did) you are completely blocked from making any further progress in the storyline. reloading my game after that happened pushed the mission progress back to the objective "Speak to Parthenia about becoming a ghoul" however what it didn't do was push my character progress back and because of this i was stuck as a ghoul and unable to complete the mission. after going back to her and speaking she said to take the inhaler, i clicked the inhaler which worked but the issues starts at the silo. in order to "complete the ghoulification" you need to pass out from the radiation and wake up in the next room. however as a ghoul you physically cannot die from radiation and so I'm stuck in the silo room and after a few moments the game simply just disconnects me back to the main menu and the cycle continues. PLEASE let people see this, this is a massive issue and until something happens my progress is stuck with no way forward.
UPDATE- the situation is much worse then I realized. Luckily I have already completed all of the faction quests so this doesn't affect me too horribly but could affect others. Because im labeled as a ghoul I cannot enter places like the inside of Fort Atlas. Normally when your a ghoul, you're able to go talk to the person inside the cave the ghouls are in and get a disguise. However, I can't access the person I need to speak with to get a disguise because according to the quest I still need to "become a ghoul" so until either a patch comes out or something is fixed. I am now permanently locked out of the brotherhood of steel and other locations as well.
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