Thank you for the kind words. The scene you seek can only happen if you don't go to Greyhaven's tavern and have a heart to heart with Hunter. If I recall correctly, the events you'll need to trigger that are... Fresh Debug File Post-Hunter -> Forest Wellspring -> Ancient Woods -> Ancient Woods Wellspring -> Explore Again to Find Shade Once More -> Back to Forest -> Meet Wolves -> Either explore in the forest again, or leave camp and come back.
That worked! Just wanted to let you know. You taking your time with this tickled my heart, my dude. Thank you a bunch. I'll see about joining the discord when I'm lucky enough catching a working link.
Oh, as for resolution issues, it might be a frame cap thing. You don't have a frame limit and opening the game in mine was causing some ungodly coil whine until I forced a cap through my GPU's config panel.