Why does the enemy just sit there sometimes in combat

[Goblin]

they thinkin bout socrates with how they be freezin. come and kick my ass you coward

[Ironwu]

Funny, they were waiting in defensive positions thinking the exact same thing. :)

[Soji]

i believe a read in patch notes that behavior was caused by the AI trying to reach places their movement points wouldn't allow and they fixed it, but it still happens to me too.

[Kaisha]

Because the game is STILL a buggy mess.

[Anima Mundi]

Originally posted by Soji:

i believe a read in patch notes that behavior was caused by the AI trying to reach places their movement points wouldn't allow and they fixed it, but it still happens to me too.

This but in certain odd cases it may still happen. There's also some ways and interactions that kinda break AI behavior.
A solo character stacking up things that reflect or deal dmg like armor of agathys, or the shenanigans you can do with electrified surfaces, will prevent AI to find a safe way to hit you.
Also, sneaky characters. If you're invisible sometimes the AI will just walk around looking for you and waste their turn

[Goblin]

Huh okay so it isn't me just going crazy. Thank goodness

[Dank Sidious]

Which CPU do you have?

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Dank Sidious:

Which CPU do you have?

That is the correct question.

[Popsicles]

Enemies have been stalling since patch 1. They still have not fixed it. If they were allowed to sit and think, and then take the dodge action, that would make sense. But alas, there isn't a dodge action either.

[Popsicles]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Dank Sidious:

Which CPU do you have?

That is the correct question.

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No it isn't. My cpu goes well beyond the recommended specs and you still get stalls in this game.

[Zaris]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Dank Sidious:

Which CPU do you have?

That is the correct question.

Wrong question. CPU doesn't matter when the AI is caught in a loop, the loops are just processed faster. Some of these turn based games have built in loop breaks (x tries failed to do something like finding a path) and the npcs skip their turn at some point (BG3 does that) or the game freezes forever (Jagged Alliance 2 had that problem too).

[Soji]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Dank Sidious:

Which CPU do you have?

That is the correct question.

definitely not, this happens to everyone I know and me personally. I dont have the highest end pc but they've even mentioned this was a bug in patch notes previously.

[Dank Sidious]

Originally posted by Zaris:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

That is the correct question.

Wrong question. CPU doesn't matter when the AI is caught in a loop, the loops are just processed faster. Some of these turn based games have built in loop breaks (x tries failed to do something like finding a path) and the npcs skip their turn at some point (BG3 does that) or the game freezes forever (Jagged Alliance 2 had that problem too).

That actually makes sense. I think some of these issues with pathfinding are caused by weak hardware, but yeah if the AI is just caught in a loop trying to do something it can't it would cause something like that, unless they build proper checks for that.

[Mike Garrison]

All I can say is that I prefer the way that the BG3 AI eventually just gives up and lets the turn end versus the way that XCOM would freeze forever, unrecoverably.

[Giganx]

I mostly notice it when one or more of my characters is hidden or near awkward obstacles. I think the AI freezes sometimes when it can't figure out where you are or how to get to you.

[Popsicles]

It has improved a lot over the last three years. During early patches I would sometimes let the game idle for up to 30 minutes before the AI would decide to move. With the current patch, it's maybe 30 seconds at most when it happens.