What you can do is hit your party members with it once out of combat to instill the essence in them; being out of combat, they regenerate almost instantly. If they are killed in combat, they spawn a friendly creature. Does that work?

 

I instilled Eder with some essence, sent him to fight and die. The resulting spawn seemed to be a neutral enemy (red ring, but the enemies and the spawned lesser black ooze were happily fighting each other).

 

Companions with instilled essence are destroyed on death, so I can't recommend doing it to one you're particularly attached to or anything (especially with Trial of Iron enabled.. sorry Eder   )

 

 

After applying beta patch 2.0 i feel the game run more slow/heavy, steal stuff cant take all items and some problems, better wait few more days for 2.1 with new dlc

Still no Painted Masks quest fix?

 

Edit: this one, not the other one listed in the patch notes: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/101808-the-painted-masks-glitch/

Edited July 28, 20187 yr by FuzzyPuffin

So, no changes to engagement/disengagement? I have to say by now combatants circling around opposing combatants (that attack them) without triggering disengagement attacks and combatants following opposing combatants (that disengage/flee) instead of making disengagement attacks are supremely annoying. Also paralysis clearing flanked and engagement generally.

 

EDIT: another gripe: pathfinding + combatants pushing team members.

Edited July 29, 20187 yr by Psychovampiric Shield

I can't actually  loot shelfs in this latest beta patch.

 

Im only in Port Maje so can't say about the rest.

Edited August 1, 20187 yr by Jaget80

Is the final 2.0 update due to be released today?

Edited August 2, 20187 yr by daerragh

Any ETA for next Beta patch??

Any ETA for next Beta patch??

I second that I only played about 2-3 hours of this game on 2.0 and encountered 3 bugs. So I stopped playing and am going to start when the next beta patch comes out.