Wackenroeder

Hi, I've attached one of my save games with the issue. On personal level, I've resolved the issue simply by reloading an earlier save and playing on (I have not thus far had the bug repeat itself and I've now surpassed where I was on this save), but hopefully you can still use it to figure out what causes the bug and fix it for the future.

I'm trying to remember if there was anything I did the first time immediately after the save which works, but I'm drawing a blank. That save was at the VERY end, after me having killed the boss mob and looted the whole place. So all I really did after that was run out. I don't think I walked by any of the curse stacking things between that point and the bug appearing. The only thing I did different the first time as opposed to now, when I just left the place and everything is working fine, was that I forgot that the quest NPC I was supposed to talk to was waiting for me at the Old City area, so I went to the bit underneath Delver's Row, realized that the NPC wasn't there, went back to Old City to meet her and then exited the area. But I don't know how that could've caused the bug. Something to note is that earlier in Old City I had a minor bug where Maia's bird pet wasn't being revived after a fight but kept showing up dead. I ended up having to restart the game to fix that and then the pet actually resurrected at the opposite end of the whole area for me. But that happened before the bit where my working save took place, so could be unrelated. I also wonder if the pools that give you sickness could have something to do with this, since they seem to be placing you into combat for tiny fragments of moments each time you walk into them.

Update: I did find a save at the very end of Old City actually that still worked and hadn't gone through the "reset". I went back to Dereo and everything seems to work for now. Not helpful to the OP I suppose, since they are so far along since the start of the bug though :/ I was lucky that I tried to change party quite quickly after the appearance of the bug. Otherwise I might've gone on for ages without realizing this to be the case either.

Hi, I also have this problem. Zones (including the world map) show up now as non-explored and I cannot change party members. For me, the problem started after I finished the Old City area and returned to Dereo. I noticed the Denver's Row showing as unexplored, with all doors closed and containers unlooted. I likewise did not pay this much heed, just assumed it was a minor thing. I didn't notice any other hints of something being wrong until (quite soon after) when I returned to the palace and after having finished the Gullet questline, I wanted to swap away Tekehu to Xoti. It was then that I really noticed the bug happening. I can't swap in any characters that were not in my party earlier. If I try, once I close the party management window, I just have empty slots in my party. I can't add in any characters to fill that slot except Tekehu, who was in my party when the bug apparently started. Tbh, I did not immediately even connect the party management bug to the "map reset" bug. It was only when I decided to see if I coulld swap party from my ship that I realized that all the areas I had explored out at sea were under the fog again and this made me think they might be connected. I do have a save from before I went to the Old City and in that one it seems like party management works. I have some saves left in Old City as well, so I could maybe try to triangulate a point where it breaks and see if it does so again. Though I have to say this whole this has kinda soured me a bit for the game. I don't much enjoy having to backtrack, especially since I struggled through some fights in Old City and not too keen on having to redo it. Shame, because I too was really enjoying the game, even more so than the first one. Btw, I didn't install any patches or addons recently to my recollection.