I'm still working on a few things. I'll edit this if I can still finish anything else today.
First, I'm having trouble recreating some bugs. If you can provide steps to recreate any of the bugs you report, I'd really appreciate it. Especially the exact steps in the "pause menu, lance menu, save game, return to game, black screen" bug. Thanks.
As for today's patch, here's what we did:
Game speed options are now saving and loading correctly.
Save game buttons now have their text back. I had somehow changed the text to a font that hadn't been embedded in the menu.
Fixed a bug that halted your progress near the end of the first Shadowlands zone. You should now be able to progress to the next area.
Hopefully fixed a rare bug that caused lances to become desynchronized from the battle maps.
Skeletons crafted with the necromancy skill had slime portraits. They now have regular skeleton portraits. Your current skeletons will have the wrong portraits until they die or you start a new game. But any new skeletons will have the right portrait.
Retreating from battles actually hadn't been fixed last patch. It should be fixed now.
If you change from a ranged to a melee attack in the middle of the attack, it no longer affects the attack currently in process.