I will also confirm that regardless of when you use F2 it will only ever take it to 6.8
the option is to be used in SINGLE PLAYER OFFLINE JOURNEYMAN MODE. It would be super great if people have SAVEGAMES and they are REPEATABLE PROBLEMS, that they could send the savegames and let me know where they go, otherwise the options work here and I have no way to 'fix' a problem that I cannot replicate
best,
Cal