This is incredibly frustrating. I was pretty far along into my adventure and now all of my save files are broken?!
Sagani and her wolf seem to be the source of the problem for me as well, but now the entire party composition menu is completely bugged out and I cannot add or remove party members anymore. I removed everyone from my party but my main character, and they are still all there, I can select them and move them around, all except Sagani and her wolf, who just stand there.
Infuriating, completely ruined a wonderful game experience. The prospect of throwing away all that progression and starting over to have clean save files is so disappointing. When you have a game where people invest a huge amount of playtime into a play through, these types of bugs are the absolute worst.
Back to GW2 I guess, by the time I feel like giving PoE another try I wager the story will have been completely spoiled by friends. Sad to see the Obsidian reputation for game breaking bugs ruin a game that up til now was a excellent. I hope friends I convinced to try this do not have similar experiences Instead of being a day 1 Kickstarter backer for the next project, I suppose I'll wait a month after release to take take a chance.