Baran the Crusader not counting as defeated after defeating him.

While progressing towards my second Awakener fight this league I killed drox, al hezmin, and veritania and they counted as defeated and were displayed in the center of the atlas as defeated. However upon killing Baran I did not get the completion in the center of the atlas towards spawning the next awakener fight. After this I spawned Baran again and killed him and got the same result, he did not count towards spawning the next awakener fight. I am wondering if this is a bug as I have never had this happen before.

Same here, for me it was also the case for Veritania... Just two of the guardians and it didn't count for either...

The game also lags like hell even though my pc is much better than years ago where I was able to play poe with a piece of trash at least somehow. Now the screen freezes for up to 5 seconds and it happens all the time. Becomes frustrating. The game had some better times in my opinion...