No, everyone on discord was trying hard to figure out the bug, it has been in the game for months but for some reason in this patch its happening much more often. The easiest thing I could say is do not make a save 2, only save 0 or 1 for now
2022-08-14 10:46:00 +0000 UTC
long answer: the crash has to do with Visual_101 root call which all overworld NPC's use.
and Digi can't recreate it cause the UE testbed environment cant trigger it because it auto allocates as a failsafe
in short: don't fight ANY NPC's in the overworld until it gets fixed.