cleospeare

Yeah, I started playing an older character that was about the same level and did the quest successfully that I was stuck on my old character. I may just keep playing this character, or maybe do what you said Kimberj, and make the same type of character that was stuck and use mods to get back to the same progress. Thanks for the advice guys.

Ok, so I am still having the problem of gaining access to the castle. I've tried loading different character saves but no solution. Serana still doesn't stop on the bridge to gives her speech, but sometimes she says it at odd locations like before boarding to travel to the castle island or when I try going back to the cave that was in the previous quest. Upon traveling to the island there is a new talk option of "Is this your home?" but Serana just keeps following me. The gate is down at the castle but the door is not usable (hit E but nothing happens). The guard at the door has different speeches of Serana being back or saying that she has been gone a long time. I've tried downloading skyrim and dawnguard unofficial patches but that didn't fix the problem, neither did loading into the game with dawnguard dlc disabled and re-logging with it enabled. I've heard that maybe the mod order in NMM might be a cause, but that hasn't been a problem in the past. This is getting frustrating, if anyone else has other ideas of what may fix this problem that would be greatly appreciated (I'd rather not resort to re-downloading the game, but if that seems to be the only solution than I'll give it try, hopefully not lose all my progress). Thanks.

Well, that's the thing, I delete old saves, afraid that the auto saves might override my other character saves. So I only had 1 recent save for this particular character after the problem ocurred

I've tried changing the timescale to 1 but I'm still having the problem. I tried installing the skyrim dawnguard unofficial patch, but for some reason when I add it to the Nexus mod manager my game crashes after the Bethesda logo on the game boot up

Hi so I was doing the quest Bloodline that requires me to escort Serana back to her home (the Castle Volkihar). I have discovered the place before starting the quest, not sure if that is what is causing the problem or not. I read that when she is halfway across the bridge Serana is supposed to stop and say something along the lines of staying quiet and that she is going to go her own way upon entering the castle. But she never stops so I can't open the castle door, the gate is opened but when I attempt to open the castle door nothing happens. When talking to Serana on the castle island there is a new talk option that says "This is your home?" but that's as close as I get. I was wondering if anyone out there knows how I can fix this problem. I have tried to reset the quest with the command prompt but nothing happens. If anyone knows how I could fix this quest problems that would be great. Thanks!