Summons not obeying voiced group / direct commands to attack / defend.

[Twilight]

GSID: Twilight

PC: Kiggil

RACE: Kobold

CLASS: Sorcerer (Tribal Shaman Perk)

PERK FEATURE(S): 'Animals do not attack you'

SUMMONING THEME: Spider

I conjured Giant Spider (SC 1) multiple times and Summoned Brood Keeper (SC 3) multiple times, while facing Hunting Spiders, Underdark Racing Spiders, and a Stone Lizard. The URS's and Stone Lizard were a single group encounter.

Problem: My summoned spiders, when given commands to attack or defend in any way, simply stood there and did nothing while the named mobs attacked Kiggil. I had to manually select summons with 'Control Companion' and then select a target, for each and every one of my summons, while the hostile enemies were harming my summons and myself.

 

[Tala]

First I hear about it in a long time. Anyone else encountered problems lately with summons?

[Twilight]

Also, I just noticed while in the Spider Tunnels using Giant Spider summon, but three Hunting Spiders completely ignored my summoned Giant Spider I was using to break down webs. Meanwhile, the Hunting Spiders kept jumping to my location in an attempt to find and bite me. Appears to be either related to my Tribal Shaman Perk (Animals don't attack), or faction bugs between Spiders. Though if it is perk-related, the Hunting Spiders should not be aggressive to me at all - and yet they constantly attack me on sight.

[Crump]

First I hear about it in a long time. Anyone else encountered problems lately with summons?

The Summon 3 from the Illusion Theme (Trickster Demon) has similar problems. It is unable to attack some enemies. It will switch from range to melee weapon, move to about 5m away from the monster and do nothing. Voice commands and the control companion player tool don't help. The only way to get them to attack is to order them to move right next to the enemy and maybe an AOO will trigger it into attacking.

I haven't figured out what the underlying cause is. It happens with Rock Worms, Oozes and some goblins. Other summons from the theme have no problem against the same enemies. I thought it was some glitch related to skinned monsters but it happened with goblins as well so I have no clue.