Several pet control problems

[Scrappa-yeti]

Currently I am finding pet control to be almost impossible.

This applies equally to Animal Empathed animals, animal companions and possibly summons, so I think the general script is a bit wonky.

The problem is the pet just doesnt follow instructions.

If you tell it to stay put from the radial menu, it wont. It will walk after you if no one is around, or chase the nearest red thing.

If you use the player tool to go somewhere, it will often walk off in a different direction, over and over. If you tell it to pick a specific target with the player tool, it simply wont change to it. Sometimes they fixate on a target they cannot reach, and get beat down not attacking at all.

Even if I am in stealth, and all I am doing is micromanaging one pet, it still seems next to impossible to have it act in a vaguely useful pattern.

[merrychase]

Adding these here for reference, I think the same root problem occurs with charmed and dominated monsters.

https://www.efupw.com/forums/index.php?topic=697937.0

https://www.efupw.com/forums/index.php?topic=697986.0

As a remark, summons are marginally easier to control with the tool. My impression is that whatever is going on with the AI with regards to hostiles and the in-party mechanic works incrementally better (but still imperfect) in that case.