I rolled up a new character in order to test other stuff, and started as usual, by doing the Nyfre-Medreth run. After I took down that party, there was something wrong. Endless boardom set in!

 

That boar companion, which I hadn't used knock down on (unless the AI did it for the BB Fighter), lay on the ground, and when I moused over it, I got this info screen:

 

Even weirder, this "knocked out" condition on a baddie, turned combat and non-combat states into fleeting concepts.

It lay there, knocked out, a few seconds went by, and then the combat music stopped. I could loot everybody, but as soon as I attacked that boar, the combat music restarted, and even weirder, whatever I threw at it, it didn't take any damage (see my combat log above)! Everything registered as either 0 damage or if I cast spells on it, it didn't affect it at all. I could do this forever. It refuses to die, and I can leave it there. Even worse, it blocks the quest from getting finished.

 

I hate that boar!

Endless boardom

 

 

Hee hee hee....

Also that boar still triggers the auto-pause conditions for when it falls on low health. No other enemy does that.

 

I think it's because it's an animal companion or something.