So when I first got to the institute I had a pretty good idea that I was going to end up shooting up the place, and that is what I did. First attempt I realized that after my filicide I was locked out of getting into the rest of the institution and could only leave. So I reloaded a previous save and at first accepted Shaun and once I was able to go in the the institute proper I attacked them. I realized that something was wrong as I started going into the wings of the institute at that point because the people there were not aggressive off the bat. In each one I could talk to the people as if I was completing the introduction quest that Shaun gave me or whatever (I didn't think much of it though because I was happy I was still able to get Dr Li out and what not and thought that maybe it was set up like that to prevent that quest from auto failing).

After getting Dr Li out, which I think was not the last area I cleansed b/c it was two days ago I notice that my game starts lagging a bit. Then all of a sudden there are TONS of red dots on my direction wheel. So I go up the elevator and the room at the top is absolutely STUFFED with synths. Literally hundreds. So I think that its supposed to be like that and they want you to go out some different way so I take the elevator down, and this time it takes me back down to Fathers office, not the institute proper, and down in his office is again STUFFED with synths. So I go back up and try to make a b-line rght for the elevator but at this point there was more than the first time I got there and it was impossible to even walk anywhere really.

So I loaded up a save that was a little ways back and this time I was ready for it, I sprinted to the elevator and up top there was again tons of synths but not an excessive amount, I always stock up majorly with Stimpacks in all of my fallout games so I was just mashing stims and puching straight and jumping and trying to get to the teleporter. And thankfully, I thought at the time, it worked and I got away.

I came to this site to post about that yesterday but stopped because I can't post the pictures I took of the hundreds of synths and I thought it would be pointless to post without someone seeing how excessive the synth spawning was. But now the problem is that I think that I have broken my main quest line. I am on "The Nuclear Option" quest, from the minutemen as I said, and the quest marker just takes me to the institute on the map to fast travel to it now when I go there the place is empty and I cannot do anything to finish the storyline.

Was the ridiculous spawning of synths at the institute on purpose to stop me from being able to get out of there alive after killing everyone and my ridiculous amount of stims and luck got me out when I wasn't supposed to?? Or is this just a legitimate bug that is stopping me from ending the game. Any assisstance would be GREATLY appreciated, my save before going into meet shaun was a quicksave and is long gone.