Really? Now thats weird. Everytime i tried to enter the hole cave entrance in marcus's house or whoever house that is, in under 3 seconds at most 5 seconds the Ghoul always come sprinting to me, thats the place I managed to kill the ghoul. Then I tried to move to the upper right cave corridor and in just 2 seconds another Ghoul appeared. Of course with low ammo and health I died. I reloaded the save file before I went to the corridor and tried to make a run to the previous said hole entrance and at least after 4 seconds a Ghoul appeared. I don't think a few seconds, not even 10 seconds is long right? Try checking the Ghoul spawning chance maybe? Ah, btw I managed to escape with the speed potion and 8 or 9 retries lol (I tried going to the cave again and actually counted, not just a maybe. The Ghoul found me right after I entered the cave in 3 seconds if you make it into a solid number, the second time i tried to test it again and it got me in 7 seconds, and the third time i tested again it got me in 12 seconds. Also when I tried to run the game for checking the time properly it got really laggy then I got a notifs saying "The scripts is hanging" or something like that but only sometimes, though I did get it twice in a row. Idk if its like this in 23.5 too or not cuz im playing in 23.4 , I thought you might wanna check that one out too)
Edit: I forgot to tell you but I think there's a bug in the save files. I wanted to know what happened if i tried a vodka and a cigarettes to increase my mood while also wanted to find out other character reaction when I'm drunk. So i saved before i tried the alcohol and cigarette and went talking to people and so on. Satisfied with the result, I went to title menu and reload the save file and played like usual. But when I ended the week I still got the minus mood for alcohol and light drugs. Is there a way to fix an addiction?
Oh, and I think when I tried being drunk and using a single cigerrate I ended the week by resting to see what side effect would it cause, then I reloaded the save file. Idk if that would be helpful in your checking. (That's a lot of typing lol)