THREE UPDATES have been released today: The FREEDOM PATCH, then two additional updates that followed. Please make sure your project has received these downloads/updates entirely before attempting to play!
If not, your save files may be jeopardized due to the terrible mistake I made wherein I forgot to remove my OWN saves before proceeding with updating the project. This replaced pre-existing saves.
This SHOULD NOT HAPPEN after the latest emergency patch (from a moment ago) as the other save files have been removed.