The skill states that it can only be used outside of combat, and it doesn't fire when I try in combat. I was hoping there was some nuclear override option. Luckily, I have a save from before that battle started, so I'll just un-True the companion with the issue for this fight. I love this mod, by the way, though sometimes my companions do stupid things. They have a habit of using skills that will heal the enemy instead of damage them, though I'm sure there's some logic to what they are doing.

You need to use the spell again to take control back. As far as I remember it can be done in and out of combat. It's been many years since I made the mod my memory is a bit foggy sorry haha.

Is there any way to force control back to me during combat? I have a companion that keeps getting stuck in an apparent endless state of thinking during a particular combat.

No, you're right, it's just a bit of a pain to have to quick save before every fight to confirm whether or not a party member is controlled by ai :( This is especially a pain if i reload a save after a few days

Since that only applies during combat, wouldn't it be easy to tell? If you are given the option to use their action points then they are under your control. Am I missing something?

Appreciate the comment, it doesn't seem like the other version works either. I'll just have to keep track of who's controlled by ai

Back in the first version of the game I made two versions of the mod one with an indicator and one without. I might have ported over only one of the two versions in the Definitive Edition of the game but I don't remember exactly it's been many years at this point. Check out my workshop in case it might be that you have the "wrong" mod without indicators.

Is there anyway to tell if a party member is set to AI? I could have sworn on a previous playthrough there was an indicator but upon starting a new game that isn't the case.

They should be able to use special arrows yes as far as I remember they use all consumables more or less. In general if an enemy can do something your true companions can.

Will my true companion with a crossbow use arrows that are given to him?

Nice mod. I may actually be able to get through a game without lone wolf now. We'll see, lol.

You don't lose control of characters outside of combat so you can revive easily then. And in combat they will revive if they can usually they tend to prioritize healing over other actions (that's how Larian made the AI, I haven't changed that).

What will happen if you have, let's say 3 ai controlled companions, but you die in battle. How will the ai react to this? Will they revive the player after or during battle or not at all? Or will you get control of them again?

No. It's best to give items to your companions when they will need to use them rather than using them as walking banks.

is there a way to stop companions completely chewing through items in their inventory?

So, in most cases, it just won't work. Thank you.

Modded skills are handled by their respective modders basically. If they somehow have any AI behavior attached to them then the AI will be able to use them but most modders don't bother about them because they don't intend to give their modded spells to the AI.

So most of the time my mod will work with modded spells if these spells are planned to be used by enemies as well.

How does the AI handle custom skills like, idk, Odinblade or Cleric's mods?

Thank you for the mod!

It is really cool to see AI companions, it makes my main feel special.

Specially when they do something dumb or something that I would have done better.

Now I feel SPECIAL and SMART!

Thanks Ravnall that's very nice of you to say I'm glad you're enjoying the game thanks to the mod! :)

Just want to say this is a great mod. Makes playing through alone much more fun and simple. I feel like all you get in the comments is more requests lol I think this mod is great how it is. Thanks for making it.

No idea, I guess yes it would be possible to do it on other campaigns if the items and/or skills are added to the campaign.

Is it possible to enable party AI on custom scenarios and campaigns?

Can you tell me what CombatAi Archetypes companion gets after you set them to be controlled by AI?

And also would be possible to set a specific archetype for each companion AI?

More information on this https://docs.larian.game/CombatAi_Archetypes_And_Modifiers

I mean technically it shouldn't be """hard""" to do since the status effects do exist in game but there's not the same easy support that DoS2 had for mods and I'm frankly not willing to bother with it at the moment. I'd have to probably spend dozens of hours just to know how to make a special skill/item or whatever that allows you to cast a special infinite status effect on allies that somehow doesn't get removed or conflict with others.

It's probably doable and not hard for good modders but I'm not in that basket sorry :D

In this post someone figured out how this could be possibly be implanted

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/1086940/discussions/0/3792632220365481018/?tscn=1690384700 on page 7

Maybe @Sombrero can understand more on this

thank you please try you will be our salvation

I wanted to at first but I don't think it would work well at all mostly because of how complex most subclasses are with spell slot and reaction slot management.

Also there's no official modding tool at the moment and it was so buggy for DoS2 to make mods I'm not sure I'm willing to spend a ridiculous amount of time for something very buggy in the end.

I'll see, maybe I'll get to do it.

i agree with Nazareth can you put in baldur s gate 3 :3

Hello. Do you plan maybe to add similar mod to Baldur's Gate 3? I think that should be possible with some sort of friendly mind control.

i'm not use any class mod. i have only that one :D sometimes i like to play in DOS2 like a idle party manager xD

It does IF and only if the modded skills have been made to be usable by the AI which is the case sometimes but it's fairly rare.

If you were to use this with class-changing (and therefore skill changing) mods, would the AI just not use the new skills? Because that seems to be the case with Odinblades class change mods and all the new skills added.

for example my rogue spend whole turn to kill my frozen warrior with dagger skills

They can attack themselves to clear some status at time like using water to remove fire and so on. But normally they don't do it to the death?

I noticed, that my companions attaking themselves, if someone is frozen. Mostly to the death.

Anyone who beat the game on Tactician with this mod?

Thanks for the comment.

I haven't heard of anyone having a similar issue, are you using other mods that could somehow cause a conflict with mine perhaps ?

Loving this mod! I am having an issue after every fight, Ifan just stands there frozen stiff when combat is over. I can work around it though, i just have to engage in a conversation and he fixes himself. Im not really sure if its a skill that he used that causes this issue or what. But other then that TYVM for this WONDERFUL mod! :)

I intentionally removed it from the first iteration of the mod because I personally didn't like that it would show all the time. This was done since the intent of the mod is to mostly toggle a (or multiple) companion(s) as controlled by the AI for most if not the entire playthrough and having a permanent icon showing in every parts of the UI felt really immersion breaking to me.

how do i tell when they are controlled by the AI theres no buff or anything that shows

It depends entirely on if the mod in question lets the skills being used by the AI when charmed, if yes then they should, but it's unlikely they do because that requires setting up AI behaviours which for more complex spells would be very tricky.

Hello. If i use Odinblade character and make my companion one of that class, with this mode will they use that skills?

Can't really do anything about it though.

I subscribe your mod but it is not appear in my mod list. Please Help!!!!

I don't know. I didn't make the AI sorry. The mod just re-uses existing built-in AI from the game.

Even the "Jerk" skill cannot be used on one opponent

Why doesn't the AI use a "Crushing Blow" if the opponent doesn't have physical armor?
starting with a "Crushing Blow", a knockdown of the opponent, giving his allies a chance to defeat the enemies.

Unfortunately I can't do a whole lot about it. My mod is pretty simple in the sense that it re-uses the charm state existing in-game to essentially charm your own team to make them be played by the AI.

Issues like this would require tweaks on the actual AI itself which is outside of my skillset and I'm not willing to spend more time on DoS2 quite frankly when the mod editor is so unstable and BG3 is around the corner.

Seems like the battle with the Dessicated Undead in Act II causes issues with this mod, I've played two separate games where the AI would pretty much act immediately but every time I've tried to fight this guy in Act II, some characters (Fane and Ifan, both which have A Summon on their aciton bar) just take a million years to act

I'll do a bit more testing, maybe take a few things off the action bars to see if things speed up. Otherwise, something to look into.