When attempting to complete the "Confidence Man" quest and rescue Vadim from the brewery, Bull and Goucher cannot be killed and you cannot untie Vadim. Seems to be that Bull and Goucher are flagged as essential and therefore lay crippled on the ground but can't actually be killed. Also, when loading up a old save before entering the brewery, the player is now invincible. To load an even older save would mean loosing 4+ hours of gameplay and a heap of modifications to my base. I am not playing any further until this is fixed. It's a shame because up until this point the game has been very smooth and enjoyable.

You are not alone. Everything you described is EXACTLY what I have ran into. I usually hard save every hour but I got so into the game that I hadn't hard saved for 15 hours. I noped out of the game and will not play it until it is fixed.

Weird, though I will say, not a universal bug as the quest went fine for me. At a guess I'd say there's some trigger to turn off their immortality after the fist fight that didn't get activated in your cases. Typical gamesas bug.

Ya, I completely agree. Upon browsing reddit and such, it definitely has to do with the quest before in the bar. Something about the way they get beat up bugs out and makes the 2 NPCs and the player 'essential characters', thus unable to die. It really did launch a mini-nuke in my experience. I am physically hurting.

Same here. I posted this on PS4 boards.