It's worse than that, saving/loading is busted right now, it breaks quests, makes npcs disappear (looking at you anubite quest), reset your morph settings, resets small events (the little white square ones), it duplicates mounts, npcs, items and so on...
My advice is to do a full run of the content in one session AND without dying once, else the game's gonna break.
Switching to UE5 was a huge stepback, it's not even a pre alpha anymore, looks more like a tech demo. Hopefully, they'll get back on track but I don't see this happening for a good while.