The wild shape bug broke my second walkthrough attempt as a lunar druid, rendering the still quite buggy first chapter unplayable. I noticed The NPCs started fleeing only after I'd mopped up the cult leaders at the temple. I'd just gained access to the level 4 shapeshifting abilities, so maybe not all shapeshifting forms cause the bug. Up until that point the shifting didn't seem to cause many problems, maybe apart from the fact that the badger form seemed to once just break stuff around it and aggro the druids just by moving around in the druid sanctuary.
Well, at least the ending of this playthrough was sort of interesting with all the NPCs fleeing my character that they kept referring to "that beast" during the congratulatory party scene. And of course Shadowheart was stuck midair climbing an imaginary ladder. Once everyone else had retired to bed, the whole game seemed to be stuck with her, until she mercifully died during the night by falling through the landscape and rematerializing as a corpse in a pool of blood at her usual standing location.
