Anyone else having issues with Reclaiming the House?

There are two problems I've encountered while attempting to do this quest today:

1. Extreme connection issues that seem completely localized to the Overtaken Outpost. I'll have a perfectly normal amount of lag while riding around on my horse in the outside world. The moment I enter the outpost, however, I'll be stuck falling in the void for quite some time before it lets me in. The rope cutting section doesn't cause much issue, but when it's time to actually fight the orcs, the game starts freezing to an extent I've never experienced elsewhere in the game. The game will often completely stop for quite a few seconds, and at one point I'm pretty sure it shut down for over an entire minute. This often results in me dying once the game unfreezes, and as soon as I die and respawn in Bucie, the game is completely normal again. To clarify, I'm talking about server lag, not framerate lag.

2. Even if I do manage to kill all of the Orc Overtakers despite all of that, it doesn't matter. The quest does not update at all. I even tried letting all of the overtakers respawn twice in a row, but nope.

Changing worlds does not seem to help this issue in the slightest. These are very weird issues for a quest to have, or the first one is at least, so I thought I'd check if anyone else was having similar experiences or if I'm missing something.