Same thing happened to me last night. After leaving Crucible (I was sent to find some artifacts) I was on the way to some ditch and the screen went WAY to the right of the map. I'm talking like almost as far right as you can sail, and then a message reading something along the lines of someone died. I didn't think much of it, I just confronted a giant boar anyway not noticing until later that all my companions were dead and gone. All my auto-saves showed only me as the only living survivor of this unexplained phenomenon until I re-entered the game again today. It now shows my companions in the saved games screen (auto-saves included) but when I load a game, they are still gone. No bodies, none of their amazing gear, no trace at all. I go to the Inn in the Crucible to add them back to my party and they aren't there either.
Same thing happened to me last night. After leaving Crucible (I was sent to find some artifacts) I was on the way to some ditch and the screen went WAY to the right of the map. I'm talking like almost as far right as you can sail, and then a message reading something along the lines of someone died. I didn't think much of it, I just confronted a giant boar anyway not noticing until later that all my companions were dead and gone. All my auto-saves showed only me as the only living survivor of this unexplained phenomenon until I re-entered the game again today. It now shows my companions in the saved games screen (auto-saves included) but when I load a game, they are still gone. No bodies, none of their amazing gear, no trace at all. I go to the Inn in the Crucible to add them back to my party and they aren't there either.