Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Companions Stop Following

Posting this here as well as a bug report but I have had two companions who have completely stopped following. It doesn't matter what character your leading with but they will not follow no matter what. Other characters will follow them but they individually will not follow each other. Currently it's Shadowheart and my main Character. It's massively frustrating and I have tried everything I have seen listed as a fix. Sending them to camp/Transitioning between areas/Killing them and reviving them/all these with restarts and zone transitions but unfortunately nothing works. It is a multiplayer game and there are no issues with any other characters and unfortunately due to the massive Autosave timer our potential save prior to the bug is not worth going back to get. It's really incredibly annoying and it looks like this bug has been around since the Early Alpha. Looking to see what fixes there are if any that I haven't seen.

Same issue. Since Larian won't let the hirelings be fully customizable I made a 4 person multiplayer game. Got to lvl 3 and one just stopped following while chained. It happened after I boxed them to switch to Karlach to for her upgrade. So I led with the one that won't follow. Despite not being the charisma character. I have boxed and unboxed them all many times. Hit lvl 4 boxed another one to switch in Shadowheart. Switched back and now that one also won't follow anyone. I completed the game previously with no multiplayer and never had an issue.

A side note the pop up cutscenes that trigger. Sometimes target characters not leading nor under my control.

Some simple fixes. Make the hirelings fully customizable name race the whole nine yards. Allow players to change in different characters to speak during cutscenes instead of some flawed first come first serve targeting system.

Same issue. Started out as a two person multiplayer game then just continued solo with the two custom characters. Shortly after arriving to act 2, the 2nd custom character stopped following. Everyone will follow him if he is leading but my main character has better stats for talking.

Same issue with my game too. Boxed our 4th man while he was offline to do some some NPC specific and now his character will not follow. It's quite annoying because his character was our main healer. Really wish they hadn't bought out an update that has broken people characters.

Already reported here and I agree, it is really painful...

Just to be clear for this case this bug is not necessarily related to the Withers closet since it persisted since before that update and it seems to be the same bug that was in the Alpha. A lot of people are posting about the following breaking due to that and its likely at least partially related but this is only involving my main Character and Shadowheart. Apparently this bug was "fixed" during the beta but obviously its still floating around.

Just as a follow up, this bug is still present even after the update. Same two characters are affected with no way to do anything about it. Is there any way we can get a way to reset the pathfinding/following scripts? It seems like somehow it got borked somewhere and if we could manually reset them, it would be a potential fix. Really disappointed because this is a gamebreaking and massively frustrating bug.

Registered just to add a possible solution, as this is still one of the top google results for this.

Karlach would not follow me after her initial rampage upon killing the "Paladins of Tyr". I was able to fix this issue by selecting Karlach and right clicking on Tav and choosing [group]. It took a couple attempts to iron out the kinks but after a few orders to follow, her bug resolved and she's been with me since.

Hope that helps anyone else with this problem!