Do enemies still respawn in Wizardry 8? Or was this removed with a patch?

I actually played a sizeable chunk of the game, got stuck trying to solve a quest and did a lot of backtracking in one of the towns. I got frustrated with the game because of the constant respawning of enemies.

Yes. If you talk about Arnika, never had problem with respawning, it was good for leveling up. :p

Yea, they do. Quite frustrating, that's for sure. Especially if you've got high lvl party and find yourself on arnika-trynton road or similar "narrow" location in front of dozens bugs/higardi/mordai/ghosts or whatever with no option to avoid them. Time consuming. That's why you should use portals (wizardry magic - mage/samurai/bishop) :P Have one at swamp (trader's hut) or even better - near umpani and/or t'rang teleporters. It helps avoid most of those lategame boring ecounters.