I think the game is broken in the new version.

After the cult mission and the question about the dark elves, new locations open up, but nowhere can you hire a new companion and get new dialogues, in the elven forest there is no queen, the guard does not allow him into the building, and the dialogue with one of the elves is as if he had already met the queen

you progress by defeating the harpy on the left side of the vamp castle after that fight the vamp in the castle then its should be good from there