Virgil is not doing anything in battles!

I dunno what happened with his AI, but he never attacks during battles until I get killed; then he just defends himself.

I tried setting him to "stay close" and "attack" but he never helps me fight, except to heal me. I did make him wait once when I was prowling somewhere, could that be the problem?

I'm using turn based battles if that helps.

 

Switch to realtime and straight back to turn-based?

Using the 1074 patch and the UAP?

 

Yes I am using the most recent official and unofficial patches and no other mods.

Weird thing is, as soon as he sees an enemy he charges to it, but once I start attacking them he stops doing anything except heal. I've never had this happen before while playing, he usually attacks with his staff.

Only things I can think of is that his encumbrance was "moderate" since I loaded him up with junk; and his reaction to me is only 50 (neutral) because I am doing an evil playthrough and have been a jackass to him a lot so far.

I've since then sold all the junk that he was holding, so I will post if it's fixed once I get to another battle.

 

That IS weird... I can't say I've ever encountered that problem... (No my problem, before Drog and rroyo got to it, was the damn clock turning up in the corner of my screen and not going away. There was no way to kill it except starting another game...)

 

The problem went away when I lightened his load, but I also noticed his disposition is now 61 (courteous), so maybe neutral or lower allies don't help you as much?

Or maybe it's just a weird coincidence.

 

Doubt it's that, on my last character Virgil was more or less constantly neutral (or close to it) towards me...

Bizare, anyway.

 

In the pre-UAP game I once played a evil battle mage who abused the dwoemer shield trick and made permanent undead followers out of the Dread Crystal Spider and the Cursed Paladin. The reaction of both of them towards me was, I believe, minus 1000, yet they had no problem with fighting for me.

 

Got another problem with Virgil....

Can companions use the heal skill? I gave him two boxes of bandages for him to hold so I can ask for healing, but he only offered magickal healing. I checked his inventory and both boxes of bandages were gone.

What's the deal?