When I tried to replay v0.17 in anticipation for this update, the game for some reason hardlocked me out of Ashley's story at level 14 or somewhere around that. The event was stated as available in the menu but it wouldn't trigger regardless of what I did, and there were no "I should do X"-prompts as there usually is if you need to do something else, which I had never had an issue with before. I don't know if that was just a random bug, and if so, has it been fixed in v0.18? I mean, there's no point in getting the new update if I can't progress to the new content anyway.