So I tried this game and am more or less really liking it. It's a great throwback to the first Fallout game. But to get on point, I'm pretty sure there's a bug at the end of the Bunker 317 questline. I had the bandits help me get in since I couldn't lockpick the main door and they ambushed me on the way out. My strength and speechcraft weren't quite high enough to avoid the fight, and fighitng is what I"m supposed to be good at anyway, so I tried to fight them.

I never got a chance to attack them. I don't mean my character went down quickly, I mean I literally never got a turn. The HUD never reappeared, the game became unresponsive and my character just stood there. My party members and the enemies behaved normally, but my character never came up in the turn order. It was for all intents and purposes a cinematic death scene.

I eventually looked up a workaround and got past it, but still.

It happened to me, as well. Maybe it was just how it was supposed to go down? That being said, I reloaded and I got to escape with no encounter. I'm not complaining!

I assumed it was intentional.

Basically the dev saying give up your stuff when they ask or die, if you dont have the right points allocated.

There are other ways though. You could grab some of the circuit board chips from crates, then store all your items in a locker by the exit just before you go out. Give them chips when they ask, then go back in (stay by the exit though or they will kill you) grab your goodies, and come later with grenades to make quick work of them.

Heres what i did:
Load your save from before you went in, trigger the quest, wait till they open the door, and then slaughter their ass :)
Whole bunker to your self now.
Not easy though.