I switch Sarafen for Aloth and same thing. He just stands there while other AIs are working except for the pet thing.
I don't need a dev to give me specifics. All I would like to know is if this is an acknowledged issue that will be patched soon.
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Forget this, evidently Aloth and Sarafen were turned off somehow as was the pet. i didn't even know the pet AI could be turned off. I will have to check other game to see if ALL AIs were off now. if this is the case, i will feel really stupid, but would have been nice had some dev pointed it out to me.