muzu

As I suspected, I can get myself vampire lord form and powers n things (which is AWESOME btw) I can't start the next quest and Harkon still won't talk to me..Perhaps I need to add myself to the faction or...is vampire lord a separate race? Like vampire is?

Ah very interesting when I tried that, he would go to the room but wouldn't speak to me he would just sit there and look at me funny. I will try what you said when I get back from work see if it works for me. Thanks for the update!

Wrong thread, this one is about Harkon not actually doing anything...Granted a few people have jumped in with other issues but essentially this thread is related to Harkon not transforming...I can understand your frustration but please lets keep this thread on topic and solve one problem at a time.

Checked around google n shizzle again still nothing posted by anyone, I am glad more people have this problem though not in a malicious kinda way but the more of us their are the more chance there is of us getting a fix for this. EDIT:: AH HA! Finally the debugger threw out something useful! Two things caught my eye I'll paste them here for you first of all we have this; [08/06/2012 - 10:05:24AM] warning: Property DLC1VampireChangeEffect on script dlc1playervampirechangescript attached to DLC1PlayerVampireQuest (030071D0) cannot be initialized because the script no longer contains that property then at the end of the file we have this; [08/06/2012 - 10:07:30AM] error: dlc1vampireturnscript.NPCTransformIntoVampireLord() being called on an invalid object, aborting function call stack: .DLC1_TIF__01019941.Fragment_0() - "DLC1_TIF__01019941.psc" Line 19 [08/06/2012 - 10:07:37AM] VM is freezing... [08/06/2012 - 10:07:37AM] VM is frozen just found this in a newer debug log; [08/06/2012 - 10:20:34AM] error: DLC1VQ02HarkonScript.GetActorRef() being called on an invalid object, aborting function call stack: Looks like this is all stemming from Harkon not being able to see who the player is, could be due to a corrupt save or something?

I've got a few feelers out on a few forums n things and I'm still working on stuff myself, I'm getting nowhere quickly though hopefully someone smarter than me will actually solve this if I finally solve it I'll report back.

Just a little something to try, save before you do this just in case it has undesired results. Do the tutorial thing then when you're ready to talk to people again open up the console and type player.setrace <your race>racevampire E.G player.setrace bretonracevampire. Then try talking to people see if that solves it for ya.

There are fixes posted on the net for that bug, its something to do with them seeing you in your vampire lord form. I have seen fixes on the steam forum for that bug.

The vampire thing gives an additional dialogue option but doesn't alter the outcome still nothing happens. I'm trying to think logically what would cause this to happen and I'm thinking either the script crashes which I think would lead to a game crash, the mesh its trying to find isn't there...But normally you get that red triangle thing when that happens...So all I can think is the system is waiting for something else to happen...I can be sure its not a mod conflict because I don't have any mods active...I've only found one other post about this but that didn't have any replies so it does seem to be a very very rare problem so its very likely Bethesda won't do anything about it....I'm beginning to loose hope to be honest I can't think of a single thing to try now...Its so frustrating! I really wanna play through as a bad ass vampire lord thingy but..just..agh!

Right then..Had steam update skyrim again and check all local files and all that good stuff and now I've made SLIGHT progress, Lord Harkon now doesn't walk back to the table like he used too, nor does he transform BUT when you try and talk to him now (after the convo when hes supposed to transform) he just makes a sort of..roaring/orgasm noise which I'm assuming in the noise he makes when he's supposed to transform. What I'm going to try next is setting my characters race to a vampire and trying again to see what happens...Can't see it'll make much difference but I've tried everything else. Short of starting the full quest again.

Okay I'm gonna start playing with my load order see if that helps in anyway..I'll also continue my furious googling to see if I can find anyone else with the issue, if I find anything I shall report back with haste! EDIT::Enabled debugging no errors were thrown out so now to google to try and see if I can find anyone else talking about this bug..Someone else must have it because the bug was on the uesp wiki... EDIT 2:: Gonna try a reinstall see if that fixes it, might have to start from the beginning again but..if it works it works. I'll keep ya posted.

Yup that's exactly my problem, I thought it might have something to do with my using the alternative start mod...But Even with that disabled its still borked. Is there anyway to enable debugging in the console? Maybe if there is an error it'll pop up in there and I can try and figure out how to fix it.

Howdy all, Had a quick look around the forums and didn't see anything exactly like this so allow me to explain my issue. I get the bloodline quest, take the girl back to the castle..Harkon starts blabbing on and then when hes supposed to give a demo of his powers nothing happens he just stands there..I tried moving things a long a little by using the setstage command in the console but that doesn't help at all, people either think I'm already a vampire so won't make me one, OR they just completely ignore me. I really want to play as a vampire lord but this Harkon bug has pretty much stopped me progressing. Has anyone else encountered this bug? Oh the UESP wiki it is listed but there's no solution posted, I've tried disabling mods..various save files..upping my level...everything I just can't get past this point in the game and its REALLY pissing me off now. Thanks in advance Muzu