Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems NPCs wont move, attack, or use actions in combat

During combat enemies (and friendly NPCs outside my group) will not move at all or attack/use any actions. When it changes to AI/NPC/Enemy's turn the camera focuses on them standing there for about 15 seconds doing nothing, and then it switches to the next person in the list. As you can imagine this makes combat trivial to the point of boredom and I now dread the idea of getting into a fight with anyone and have been putting off playing much further till this is solved.

I first encountered this about 49 hours in, during act 1 when first meeting/fighting the gnoll hyenas. Four more acts of combat have happened since then with other enemies and they have been the same. Restarting my game, and restarting my computer has not resolved this issue, nor has verifying the integrity of my game files. Searching online I found this to be a bug that goes back to early access (as far back as 2020) with no solution other than loading an earlier save. There is a temporary solution however, that if the main custom character dies (properly dies as in needs to be revived with a scroll) then the fight resumes as normal and all AI attacks as it should. However the moment you revive the main character all AI pause movement and actions.

I am unsure as to what causes this bug or how to recreate it, however I have recorded a video of said bug in action to demonstrate. I have sent a bug report off to Larian via their bug reporting area on their website detailing all this (with save games attached to it), a few days later I have heard nothing back. If anyone here knows the source of this bug, or other solutions to fixing it then it would be much appreciated if you would reply!

Thank you!

I'm having this exact issue myself, did you have any luck resolving or get a response from Larian?

For me the bug got fixed in big patch 1 update (though I couldn't find the bug described in the patch notes, but I may have just skimmed over it). I have also heard from 1 other person that the bug was fixed for them in the update as well. But no actual response from Larian to my bug report no. If you still have this bug and you have updated your game, then I would suggest maybe waiting till Patch/Update 2 which should be coming out quite soon, and maybe it will be fixed there?

Otherwise there are a couple of things you could try. You need to work out which party member is bugged (In my case it was my main avatar, but I know for some people its just a companion). If the bugged member is a companion then sending them back to camp and then bringing them back out might fix it. Or killing them then reviving them. (This is what I have heard on other threads, reddit, and steam anyway). However if like me its your main avatar thats the bugged member then alas I can offer no advice, because trying those fixes never worked for me. Only getting the update fixed things.

Fingers crossed for you!