Gale Bug?

[Nyaria]

My Gale got downed. I immediately revived him.

Next turn after he's revived, he's now stuck with a permenant necrotic aura that's hurting everyone.

He's not dead. He never died, he was just downed, and I treated it literally immediately. Why is my gale permanently stuck with this aura that's hurting all my party members?!

[Turnbot]

I had something similar happen in my friends and my game: Gale never got downed but he just suddenly got necrotic aura during an encounter with no way to remove it after the fight.
Went back to camp (he still had it) then we took a long rest, during which a cutscene occurred with another companion and on my friends screen he was just watching as the necrotic aura killed the entire party because Gale was sleeping in one of the sleeping bags next to the fire with the rest of the party with the aura still active.
After the cutscene the rest of the night passed and the next day Gale no longer had the aura, my character and Gale were alive, but my friend's character and the other companion we had were both dead, so we had to rez them and then take another night. So if you can get Gale back to camp, maybe try removing him from the party so he doesn't kill the party members overnight with his aura, then take a long rest and see if the aura goes away?

[zaph]

Have this too. It's so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying

[phonehands]

Also have this issue and now I'm a savescummer as a result :(

[Devoras]

Yes, after a tough fight I was trying to get everyone back up but they kept getting downed. I didn't realize it was Gale, who was downed and floating in the water nearby, who kept damaging and downing my other two companions before I could move them after helping them up. He killed them both, nothing I could do. I found out after that it was Gale doing the damage. He is a massive liability, first chance I get I'm killing Gale or throwing him out of the group. At the moment I can only force him to wait in camp.

[Zillions]

I was going crazy trying to figure out what was going on! Yeah, this bugged for me after reviving him during the big Hyena fight to the north westish of the Druid town.

[Ihateeverybody]

so what you are saying is I made the Right Choice ditching him in camp? I used him in EA and was not impressed.

[Devoras]

He was still doing damage to me even standing around in camp, but after a long rest the status seemed to go away. Still, I'm not risking having him anywhere near me.

[Tint]

I have this also, twice now Ive had to load previous save because he just kills all my party members after winning a fight

[Sim]

I tried as well, but nothing to do than kick him out of the party and the just hope the devs fix the bug - it dosen't disappear at all.

[Amateur Nitpicker]

Oh when he first died there was a quest to revive him? like did you do it? Maybe it is because of that. (Like maybe let him die and see if the Gale revive quest will trigger)

[Ricky Spanish]

I have this too, seems like it has been a bug since 2020 too - HOW has such a game-breaking bug not been fixed in 3 years of early access?!?!

[Nyaria]

Originally posted by weird32:

Oh when he first died there was a quest to revive him? like did you do it? Maybe it is because of that. (Like maybe let him die and see if the Gale revive quest will trigger)

I know if he die-dies you get a quest to revive him.

But he's getting this aura when he gets downed, and even if he get immediately gets helped back up without getting anywhere actually near dying.

The long rest thing did stop it thankfully. It was just very frustrating of a bug.

[emclementine]

Does anyone know, is it better to leave Gale and not meet him or is it safe to leave him in the camp? (Don't know how leaving him at camp will interfere with his quest chain or if he might be a risk there when teleporting back to camp)

[jedi72]

Originally posted by emclementine:

Does anyone know, is it better to leave Gale and not meet him or is it safe to leave him in the camp? (Don't know how leaving him at camp will interfere with his quest chain or if he might be a risk there when teleporting back to camp)

I never used Gale in my party (my main is a Necro Wizard), and i always safely parked him in my camp.

Just advancing in his questline while parked seems fine so far (just started Act II).

[Devoras]

He should be safe if you just leave him in your camp, he didn't start necrotic auraing me until he was downed in a battle. However, at that point he still had the aura while he was standing around in camp. He was far enough away from anyone else that it wasn't a problem. The aura went away after I did a long rest, but I still avoid him. He has something he wants to talk about but I'm not going anywhere near him.