I think most of the bugs and other problems peeps are experiencing are caused by previous saves.
If you look at the change logs they are now just tweaking the whole game towards the end.
Not much real story progress is done anymore it seems....mostly.
Older scenes are being altered/expended/tweaked....some stats alterations....improvement of the overal game experience etc.
And sure it already says that saves before 0.98 will not work...but I'm guesing all saves beyond that point could experience some bugs because of the tweaking as well.
I'm not sure if the cheat mod has much use anymore as there is an ingame cheat menu as well.....but that mod along with the roll back mod (especially that...thnx Joker) did safe my life/game in the earlier stages of the game
there were times I was just thinking of deleting the whole thing before
To think of it...I actually did delete it a few times before those became available
I think I will just sit it out to the point when it is all done and start a new game
Could be a while though
TL;DR Big wall of text....nothing special