the moral of the story is "save often"

i sympathise. i've had to restart a different game, Prince of Qin, 3 times because of game breaking bug issues. hopefully we don't find this happening here. thanks for the heads up about the quicksave. as a general rule i never use it, for some reason, but now i definitely won't. the abandoned level 2 and 3 battlefield 1 dungeons was disconcerting enough.