I finally found out the problem players had with missing encounters. It turns out that the reason why you all couldn't fight any more enemies shortly after getting the axe is because you went through the new Sit 'N Survive area and it triggered an event command that did in fact disable encounters. The reason why this happened is because I only did it to record footage of me showing off what the overall area looked like for this video trailer I made on YouTube

https://youtu.be/h8fLFf10XYI?si=l9AJOC2hCMi_y9Qy

I am big stupid

This patch should finally end this silly debacle once and for all. I'm terribly sorry for all the trouble this dumb oversight caused you all. You can try to use any save files you've made so that you can continue the game where you left off but I can't guarantee that it'll work well with the new content. If you're able to experience it with your old save file, then great. If not, then start over. I hope you all will enjoy the new content to its fullest this time!