Yeah, it's interesting! Btw, I just posted a new build (Nov8) on EAB.
Also, a last ditch effort if nothing else works, is to add the new intro to the July 23 release (Amiga40th) because the intro is basically what's new. IIRC Pascal told me that slightly older versions like that worked perfectly, controls and all. Earok surely would prefer that the game uses the most up to date version of engine (I would do to) but I work with modern apps with Unity and whatnot and there we roll back to older Unity versions routinely, it's part of the job.¯\_(ツ)_/¯