[PS4] Game breaking bug after starting the "Pestilence" quest

[I’m playing on PS4]

When I start the “Pestilence” quest the game totally breaks. I no longer can interact with any NPC or any object in the game (including opening trunks, washing yourself and so on).

The obvious way to fix it would be to save and reload the game. But I cannot do that either. Interacting with beds to get some sleep is obviously out of the question. Choosing “save” from the menu results in the “game saved” message, but the save is not there at all! So I cannot even load it and I’m forced to go back to the latest save.

I’ve tried reloading the game and starting the quest again 5 times now. It always ends up in the same way. So I cannot progress in the game at all. Is there a fix for this? Thanks in advance for any solutions.

I’ve had a similar bug, but on a different quest. I was on the sidequest House of God. I had to reload an earlier save to get around that. As I couldn’t use the ‘interact’ or save properly. It would either go through the motions, eating a Savior Schnapps and, telling me it saved, although it didn’t. OR it would hang.