3 out of 5 ancient magic slots are empty after reloading from the last save?

[Akunamatata]

I have 9 main quests left in the game and I decided to expand my ancient magic meter to a max (somehow I just now figured out how to do this and had all the map unlocked by sneaking through the Coastal Cenote really early in the game).
So I went to all the hotspots and gained 3 additional slots. But I discovered when I reload the game, those 3 slots become empty, but only when the game loads from my last save. If I load any previous save, all slots are full (see the picture below).
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947953282
Did anyone experience something like that? Any way to fix this?
I'm also adding a screenshot of my progress, if that's relevant (my current level is 36).
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947953582
Thanks.

[Я чувак]

Mine does the same thing. Loading a manually saved game with bars full results in full bars as expected. But continuing with a newer autosave always results in three empty bars. Guess it never bothered me because filling up the meter by killing enemies is fun.

[Akunamatata]

Originally posted by گمشو:

Mine does the same thing. Loading a manually saved game with bars full results in full bars as expected. But continuing with a newer autosave always results in three empty bars. Guess it never bothered me because filling up the meter by killing enemies is fun.

I thought it works this way too, but after some experiments I figured it works differently...
When you launch the game, it doesn't matter whether you just continue from the last save by clicking on your character on the top left, or choose to load any save from the list by pressing F, you will always have 3 empty bars at the start of the new session. And the type of the save you start your session with (auto or manual) doesn't play any role at all.
What you need to do to fill your bars again - after your game loads, go back to settings screen and load ANY save from the list OTHER than the one you started with (again, it doesn't matter if this is auto or manual save). That means if you just continued the game by clicking on your character (in this case your game chooses the last save, which is the first one on top of the list), it's enough to load the second one.
So if you wish to continue with your last save and keep all ancient magic bars full, the solution is very simple - after you launch the game, NEVER just continue the game by clicking on your character on the top left, you should first go to your saves list and load ANY save EXCEPT the last one. And then, after you appear in the game with 3 empty bars, load your last save from your previous session.

This is weird... The only thing I can think of is that it happens since I got all those extra ancient magic bars much earlier than I was supposed to... Is your case similar to mine?

[NiceGuyKc]

Not sure if this is still a thing or not, but a workaround is to load the game twice. First time, you spawn with 2 bars, 2nd time with the correct amount.