Lae'zel not following party members (but other party members following her) is an issue known since the release of alpha. For me personally, the problem started already in the prologue (and was probably triggered by sneaking) and carried on into chapter 1 and I literally can't do anything about it (please don't waste space and time by trying to suggest ungrouping/grouping, resting, dismissing, jumping, sneaking etc.). The issue can only be solved on the side of the developer.
I'm hardly the only one experiencing this game-breaking bug. Besides several of my friends, there are many posts on Reddit etc. (like I said, several even from 2020) dealing with the same problem and not a single one offers solution. I'm very disconcerned about the developers not addressing this problem, despite demonstrably knowing about it since the release of alpha. It's simply very unethical to release an alpha version of the game for the full price and then don't listen to complaints about game-breaking bugs - which ALWAYS should be a priority. Several people I know already posted a bug reports about this and nobody even replied, which prompted me to write this post.
If you know of a workaround, please don't hesitate to tell me. As far as I'm concerned, there's none and there's also zero effort from the developers to fix the issue (no patch notes released ever addressed it, as far as I know). AFTER 2 WHOLE YEARS, not counting the development made before the release of alpha.
I think the situation tells a lot about the state of the game, the priorities of the developers and - most importantly - that we can quite probably expect another postpone of release in 2023, or expect a very rough start in terms of bugginess and playability. The issue I presented is undoubtedly game-breaking and yet no visible effort was made to eliminate it.
It ****** me off to see how much money goes into silly marketing of the product still very far from being finished (just watch some Panels from Hell, though I don't recommend it) while nobody apparently cares about the game itself being free of game-breaking bugs.
EDIT: This can apparently happen with other party members also - at any stage of the game, without being able to reverse the situation - Lae'zel just seems to be the most usual case.
Last edited by 0rfeus; 10/07/22 02:47 PM. Reason: supplementary info