Main Quest issue Alduin's Bane

[lledier]

Ok, I'm on the Alduin's Bane. I read the Elder Scroll, and I watch them kill the first dragon, have their discussion, then they say Alduin approaches, two of them go into combat stance, the third stands off to the side with his Axe on his back...three? dragons are flying around...

And I wait and wait and wait... 15 minutes last night, and again about 20 minutes today. And Alduin doesn't appear and they don't do the Dragon Rend shout.

Am I missing something? oh, and I only have 4 mods installed, one adds a merchant in Whiterun, one adds a merchant in Ivarstead, one adds some weapons and armor in chests along the route to Riverwood and the fourth adds a follower. should I disable these and see if the quest will continue?

[Ilja]

AI known bug that has not sadly been properly fixed. Load a previous save. If that does not fix the problem, then try advices from UESPWiki.

The cutscene in the Merethic era may not trigger or complete, leaving you stuck there.

• Doing other quests and then returning may fix this.
  
• Another possible fix, after getting stuck in the cutscene, is to open the console and type in setstage mq206 32. This should let you regain control of the camera and a dragon should land, enabling the cutscene to continue. You could also type setstage mq206 70 into the console to learn the Dragonrend shout directly, then type in setstage mq206 100 to end the cutscene and start fighting with Alduin.

Source:
Skyrim:Alduin's Bane UESPWiki
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Alduin%27s_Bane

[76561198133591931]

Really Ilja? You can console command it? I always just went to the previous save. It may have taken doing that a few times but always eventually worked. (after 5-8 times of doing it).

[darinbob]

I had this bug and tried a lot to fix it and none of the suggestions worked and I must have watched the start of that cut scene twenty times. So I just advanced the quest, after first watching the full cut scene on youtube (still get to fight Alduin though).

[Ilja]

Originally posted by darkknight4321234:

Really Ilja? You can console command it? I always just went to the previous save. It may have taken doing that a few times but always eventually worked. (after 5-8 times of doing it).

I alawys recommend loading previous save, instead of using any console commands. However, sometimes that does not work, or script heavy games start crashing near the time wound. Using console might be the best option in that case.

[lledier]

I tried going to a previous save. Didn't work. What finally worked was disabling 3 of the mods.

[redjokerblue]

I suggest to read the UESPWiki page about console commands before using it.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Console

Better save than sorry, trust me.