User blog comment:Zadymek/Musings on Biterblack mechanics/@comment-24431732-20181102195423/@comment-24431732-20181102231756

"BTW I have a suspicion that the game calculates respawn time based on time spent in the DLC area and doesn't take passage of time in Gransys into account." Makes sense. I'll look at it later to see if so. I was running around for a solid hour but maybe it cycled just as I started testing. That would explain why it didn't work for me. It is worth noting that as of right now, I still don't have the area's chest respawned though. Perhaps it ignores time spent in menus as well, since I pause to look over the wiki activity and whatnot.

I'll check if saving is enabled during necrophages. When the garms spawned, I was about 5ft (around 2m) from the Chimera and was casting Ruinous Sigil, but they spawned anyways. Battle music was playing and this took place in the center area of the Garden of Ignominy. It could have been a combat skip though, so I'll make special note of it whenever it happens again.