Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Fight with Bernard in Arcane Tower

Force attacked Bernard with Lae'zel with rest of the party in the open & unstealthed. Only the Lae'zel went into combat with Bernard and the armored automatons. To get into combat each character had to force attack separately.

That sounds like one of the many screwed up things that can happen as a result of Larian’s approach to stealth and combat. See, eg, Wormerine’s post in this thread: https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=837520#Post837520.

No one was in stealth, before or during the fight. Literally all standing there in a group unstealthed. Forced combat to start and only Lae'zel went into combat.

Had the same issue with gobbos in the temple. Only one character was hostile to the gobbos after the initial attack, others couldn't even trigger hostility by attacking.

Gah! Misread your post, sorry BraveSirRobin.

I did have issues with combat not triggering even when my characters weren’t stealthed, but only when they were either a way from the fight or at a different elevation from the enemies. I put this down to stealth weirdness, as there seemed to be stealth checks at least sometimes when my characters tried to attack even though they weren’t actually stealthed.

But this issue does sound different and worse.

The Op it sounds like your computer needs a restart before trying the battle again

Also fighting him and the robots at the same time makes it a much harder fight... Good luck with that