I'm up to the defense of Haven and I've noticed that all my party members have stopped using abilities and only use basic attack despite having full magic/stamina. I have checked that everything in tactics and behaviours is normal and I can only conclude it's a bug. Reloading a save from earlier hasn't helped either. Playing on Xbox One.Has anyone else experienced this?

Turning party AI on and off doesn't seem to fix it, however quitting the game and restarting did. I have experienced it briefly since but it resolved itself that time.Thinking back, I believe I may have triggered it the first time by changing the potion use limit in behaviors.Overall a very annoying bug because of it's unpredictability. Hope the devs look into this one.

Same Here!X1Companions just started using Defensive only skills (psn weapons/shield wall/barrier)Full stamina/no skills "X'd". Behavior set to low stamina reserve.Restarting game/New Char didnt help. Reverting to Default Options didnt help. Re-install helped get through prologue, then back to Auto attacks as soon as i got to Hinterlands.full posthttp://forum.bioware.com/topic/527595-game-breaking-bug-on-x1/

i have recently come up against this bug and its a serious flaw, after a bit of testing i found a fix if you disable all abilities get into a fight and win( not bragging could be important) and then enable all abilities this has worked for me so far using all these steps i had no abilities set to preferred, i know this thread and game are old but i found a lot of threads on this thought this may still help someone out. this game holds up really well and the story is honestly the best i've ever experienced. sorry to everyone who has had to deal with this issue.

Same, and it continues intermittently throughout the game, though I noticed it for the first time in the defense of Haven. I just noticed it again while in the forgotten coast. I'm on PC, using an xbox controller. Very frustrating bug. Other PCs just auto-attack despite having full mana/stamina.Since this always comes up, yes, I've checked and made sure AI is turned on and that my thresholds are low enough.

I can't say I've seen this. Try toggling off all of the AI switches then pick an easy fight. Once this is over, try manually turning it all back on again and see if it has any effect.

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Apogee1841
11 years ago
Same, and it continues intermittently throughout the game, though I noticed it for the first time in the defense of Haven. I just noticed it again while in the forgotten coast. I'm on PC, using an xbox controller. Very frustrating bug. Other PCs just auto-attack despite having full mana/stamina.

Since this always comes up, yes, I've checked and made sure AI is turned on and that my thresholds are low enough.
EA_David
Community Admin
11 years ago
I can't say I've seen this. Try toggling off all of the AI switches then pick an easy fight. Once this is over, try manually turning it all back on again and see if it has any effect.
zohan-ar
11 years ago
Same here and I suspect it's related with adding/resetting skills or changing tactics.
Temporal solution is to shutdown/start game, pretty annoying...
Apogee1841
11 years ago
Yeah, some people don't see it which makes it frustrating. I noticed it last night after respecing iron bull, so it may be tied to folks who love to respec their characters a lot like me.
Anonymous
11 years ago
Turning party AI on and off doesn't seem to fix it, however quitting the game and restarting did. I have experienced it briefly since but it resolved itself that time.

Thinking back, I believe I may have triggered it the first time by changing the potion use limit in behaviors.

Overall a very annoying bug because of it's unpredictability. Hope the devs look into this one.
EA_David
Community Admin
11 years ago
Thanks for the confirmations and extra details.
Anonymous
11 years ago
Threads on this issue:
http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/my-party-members-never-want-to-use-their-abilities/m-p/4056282#U4056282

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/Party-AI-has-stopped-working/m-p/4048630#U4048630

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/Companion-ai-not-using-spells-or-abilities/m-p/4045484#U4045484

http://forum.bioware.com/topic/527595-game-breaking-bug-on-x1/

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/Companion-stopped-using-skills/m-p/4061403#U4061403

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/Companion-are-not-using-skills/m-p/4042601#U4042601
Hope this gets fixed. Super annoying bug. In some of these cases restarting or reinstalling hasn't helped - essentially breaking the game.
Anonymous
11 years ago
Same Here!
X1
Companions just started using Defensive only skills (psn weapons/shield wall/barrier)
Full stamina/no skills "X'd". Behavior set to low stamina reserve.
Restarting game/New Char didnt help. Reverting to Default Options didnt help. Re-install helped get through prologue, then back to Auto attacks as soon as i got to Hinterlands.
full post
http://forum.bioware.com/topic/527595-game-breaking-bug-on-x1/
Anonymous
11 years ago
After an 80 hour playthrough and 30 hours into my second one I got this bug on my second character. I have been tinkering with all tactics, behaviors, different party members, items, everything, nothing worked.
Then I loaded up my first character and party members aren't attacking with my first character either.
Anonymous
11 years ago
I think I found a solution.
From Xbox menu go to My games and apps.
Press start on Inquisition and select manage game.
Scroll right to your profile and select saved data.
You should see "delete from console" and "delete from everywhere"
I deleted from console, then started inquisition again. Upon starting up it synced game data (downloads the saves from cloud storage) I loaded my most recent save and boom.
Companions are using their abilities again.