Difficulty (and perhaps other) settings do not persist between save games

I noticed that the difficulty settings sometimes do not persist after you load a game.

How I reproduced this:

1.) Enter that bear cave

2.) Bear one-hits me

3.) Load at entrance of the cave

4.) Set difficulty to normal

5.) Leave Cave

6.) Re-enter cave (because the difficulty setting should get active with map transition)

7.) Quicksave

8.) Engange bear, this time he´s much easier, but still I manage to die

9.) Load last save (the one that should have normal settings)

10.) Bear is clearly much more powerful than last encounter, although the menu says it´s "normal"

Edited March 27, 201510 yr by syn666