Every quest with dialogue is BROKEN

[kawaitei]

i'm having a problem where EVERY quest is broken that involves dialogue.

 

if ever an NPC wishes to speak with me, they go comatose and stare off into space. This happens whenever an NPC stops speaking with me to address another character. Once their lines are over, one of the two NPCs is supposed to continue talking with me but they won't. in short, NPCs will no longer initiate dialogue with me. Once this happens, there's nothing i can do with the character in question. All i get is, "This person is busy". No console commands seem to snap the NPCs out of their comatose state; even "kill" and "resurrect", which worked in Oblivion. i've already had to skip through the first Companions quest using console commands, but it's simply no fun if i have to update my own journal and bypass so much dialogue!

 

Now to be more specific, this is EXACTLY what happened :

 

Shortly after asking to join the Companions, Kodlak addresses Vilkas, they argue and Kodlak turns back to me. He then stands up from his chair and just...stands there.

i used the console to skip ahead and bypassed sparring with Vilkas. i take his sword to Eorlund, trade it for Aela's shield and take it to her. She thanks me, jokes around with Skjor for a second, turns back to me and...just stands there.

 

Somebody please help!

 

-Kawai Tei-

[modder3434]

what mods are you using? it could be affecting dialogue depending on what the mod is supposed to do and what the author possibly messed with while creating it.

 

have you tried reverting to a previous save and trying again?

 

the devil is in the details, so is the solution

Edited December 13, 2012 by modder3434

[kawaitei]

Reverting to an older save, or even another character's save doesn't fix the issue. But there aren't any new mods that i've installed that modify character dialogue or anything like that. Just to be sure, i disabled most of the newest mods i've installed since before this problem popped up but to no avail. i'll keep experimenting with disabling mods until i get passing results.

 

EDiT : i earlier stated that my other characters and saves were not effected. This was just discovered to be untrue. ALL of my characters are having the SAME issue. No NPCs want to initiate dialogue anymore.

 

-Kawai Tei-

Edited December 13, 2012 by Kawai Tei