Why everyone are scared of my animal companion?

[Dexter]

Goblins, humans, they all run away from me.

Goblins in Blighted village didn't even attacked me on entrance, they run away.
2 humans near Owlbear cave. They also run away from me after I told them to attack the animal(inside the cave and outside of it).
Same with two brothers that talked with Auntie(the Witch), after dialogue they run straight into the wild, unless I am quick enough to click on them

[malkavius77]

Is it a spider? Because If I saw a giant spider running towards me I would run too.

[Alex_x86]

Originally posted by malkavius77:

Is it a spider? Because If I saw a giant spider running towards me I would run too.

It's not only spider that is causing that as well as it would scare NPCs that shouldn't be scared such small things, for example auntie Ethel would run away screaming in panic too...

[Dexter]

Just went inside the goblin fortress and priestest won't start a dialogue with me unless I click on her.

[dolby]

Right now it looks like they had i good idea but i was poorly made and turned in to a huge nuisance due to bad implementation.

Hopefully they remove it or at least fix it, been like this for a few patchs and looks to be getting worse.

[Themezmerizer]

I had an NPC i needed to talk to, but when he got close to me my animal companion scared him into a bunch of poisonous clouds that almost killed him. He survived with 1 HP! I hope this feature just gets scrapped all together, or atleast just have specific NPCs be scared of certain pet companions

[Bahrman74]

Some summons do this too. Was walking around lower city with an earth elemental and everyone was freaking out.

[Atzel]

This is really annoying, hope someone mods this out.
Rangers and druids exist and are not uncommon in this setting, people in cities like Baldur's Gate should be quite used to people walking around with huge wolves etc

[Kingslayer]

Dismiss your companion before entering the town? If someone put a Tarantula on your keyboard, would you freak out ??!!

[Snaht]

Originally posted by Bahrman74:

Some summons do this too. Was walking around lower city with an earth elemental and everyone was freaking out.

Imagine talking to someone with a sword to their face ready to slice them open and expect a civil conversation

[ProestUnicorn]

Generally all the summons work like that, which is fuunny, because Akabi and undead are just chiling in the circus, but aparently my summoned Djinn is too much for people used to 4m tall walking armors, drows and all sorts of magical creatures.

[Don Cool]

Originally posted by twitch\Announcements:

Dismiss your companion before entering the town? If someone put a Tarantula on your keyboard, would you freak out ??!!

I don´t live in Faerun where all sorts of sights are quite common.

[Deleted *******]

its the stupidest bug, that some people call feature.
Summons are causing evetrybody in the game be scared of you. Including Baals' demonic servants at the round table.
You will also probably never find quest NPC's or Traders in ACT3 since they will all be hiding in different courners or outside.

[Seagal]

It should be like that, to be honest, or in some instances they should straight up turn hostile against you if you walk into their surrounding l space with a damn bear, large wolf or some sort of summoned entity.

I mean, if I see someone walking down the street with a large dog, pitbull, other aggressive breeds, I'll cross to the other side. And I'm prepared to draw my firearm if it gets loose from the owner and charges at me.

[De$$$tr0yer2015]

Yeah, It's annoying, NPC Daemon was so afraid of my summon that run into woods and died there. I realised that only when went to do Karlach's quest and found the corpse. So her quest was blocked for me.
But you can use this feature to distract NPC and steal smth in chests. Or to bring them closer to a barrel that will explode suddenly.

[$CRWD]

Summons are bugged like that, unfortunately. :shrug:
At least it can be used to your advantage on merchants/traders.