NPC got stuck, can't progress. Help?

[Clover]

So I just started playing and I'm about ~5hrs in. I got Lares to protect me while I'm looking for the ornament in the forest, but near the stone circle he just stopped walking and stayed there. I could hear a noise as if he was stuck in the terrain (footsteps on loop). I tried bringing over enemies and he does start moving again to fight them but once he kills them he just runs back to where he was and stops moving again.

Is there anything I can do to fix this? Some console command perhaps?

[[AK] GaroK]

Weird situation. Give me a screenshoot wher exactly he stuck.

[Clover]

Here it is :
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=522493042

[[AK] GaroK]

I dont remember mission when Lares helps us with looking for an ornament. NPCs can easily get stuck, so I don't reccomend this kind of escort. You can go far away from him so he probably spawn somewhere on this way(as far as I remember we going with him to mages this way) http://i.imgur.com/7NfKu9K.png or in port. If that does not work then try bmarvinb, look at him so you will see his name and press "O" so you will turn into Lares and press F8 few times. WARNING: when you using cheats your save state can get broken, just save your game on 2 savestates for a while and it'd be ok.

[Clover]

He got stuck also in another spot while going to the mages I believe but reloading the game fixed that. This time though he's stuck for good. I'll try running far from him to see if it does anything.

[Clover]

Okay I tried running far away from him and he didn't move at all. I also tried marvin mode and moved him by using O and F8 but he always runs back to the spot and stays there. Maybe it's because he tried to talk to me but I was too far away and this got him stuck in a loop.

[Clover]

Oh shoot, he's supposed to stand there like that. http://lparchive.org/Gothic-II/Update%2015/

Apparently he's supposed to make a gesture towards the stone pillars but he didn't for me. That's why I was confused, I thought we had to keep going.

Last time someone stopped in their tracks like that it was really a bug too. Oh well, good to know that the game is working as intended. Thanks for the help GaroK!

[Evarr]

Bmarvinb - O to Lares - F8 - O to Hero - b42b.

[Mr Fantastic]

Originally posted by Clover:

Okay I tried running far away from him and he didn't move at all. I also tried marvin mode and moved him by using O and F8 but he always runs back to the spot and stays there. Maybe it's because he tried to talk to me but I was too far away and this got him stuck in a loop.

if you move away 3 screens worth of terrain npcs respawn. I had it happen to Milton at stonehenge and then he came running to me to pick his item and finish his quest.

[SunfireKnight86]

This post is from 4 years ago. haha