CTD when approaching Automatron starting location.

[wotnturnation2]

I have the Buffout 4 crash log here, but I can't make heads or tails of any of this. I *think* it's attempting to load something that's broken...
ALSO, the Caravan Distress Frequency radio is completely silent. Should be related.
Current theories are:
the corpses that are spawned near the caravan are broken, possibly because of some modded/patched items;
the entire DLC is having a stroke;
some robot model is failing to load.
Gonna try troubleshooting myself while this post is up. In the meantime, if anyone has ANY clue what might be happening here, please let me know.

https://pastebin.com/FUg08Mhz

I should note, I am a COMPLETE amateur at this. If the crash log has too little info I'll try to provide more as best as I can. Also note, I am using Vortex.
Hope this gets resolved soon, was itching to meet Ada.