For those asking about bug-testing and what was done:
-I went through two rounds of bug testing clearing out most of the softlocks, visual glitches and dialogues I found in the new opening stuff revamped - I got the game to at least a functional status with these bug-test rounds before handing the baton over.
-I didn't play through the rest of the game beyond that bug-testing, because it would take too long, and we were already massively over the deadline, but I checked the 'new' scenes beyond were functional in the gallery we had set up.
-Uber did his own bug-tests as well after my run-through.
-Uber will now be working on a patch to fix the latest batch of bugs.