Vampires have killed almost everyone in half the cities in the game. I can't load a save to bring them back to life either cause I went through a few doors before I knew what happened. Now I have to start over and lose over 100 hours of my time. This vampire thing is a joke. I'm so mad.

So get mad and go kill vampires!

I feel your pain. It's disappointing to lose NPCs to vamps and dragons.

Vampire attacks have ruined the fun for many of us. It was just a weird choice on Bethesda's part.


But how did they kill "almost everyone" without you noticing?

If vampires attack and kill even one or two NPCs, reload and try to avoid and/or stop the event from happening.


And not keeping back-up saves is bad practice. This is a open world RPG with random events (and bugs) everywhere. Relying on one save is just asking for problems.

if you are using mods there is a lovely mod by Sir Arthmoor called When Vampiers Attack & Run For Your Lives (for Dragon attacks) ...........NPC's will behave like in real life and go indoors to save them selves

Or you can get the mod that keeps NPC's from dying. A user named sp0ckrates created a few, grouping particular NPc types. No More Dead Followers and No More Dead Merchants are two of them.


And I had worse happen to me in the original game. When I first became a werewolf, I ran around town like a dingus and killed Belathor.