We had them restored. (Encounters back- although I am not a fast traveller)
Just had GF and daughter exchanging banter comparing the witcher 3 and skyrim (as medieval walking simulators), the consensus being we vastly prefer KCD, the girls going on to say they like not being attacked by wolves every thirty seconds…
And then twenty seconds later had a ‘random encounter’ on the road.
We all laughed…
to confirm that was continuing on from a save game created starting afresh after 1.3.3 released.
And those playlines/savefiles NEVER received any random encounters.
Trees across the road? Awesome!- never felt like such a great thing before… (spent decades living between city and country… generally a tree over the road has always bummed me out…)