enderes Posted March 13, 2014 Posted March 13, 2014 I'm looking for a way to revert to an earlier point in a quest chain. I'd like to know if there are console commands that can do it. Most specifically I need to know how to change a "completed" quest to "not completed." I while back I started the Civil War questline & joined the Imperials, but l ended up regretting it because my character would be better off in the Stormcloaks (for roleplaying purposes).The last quest I did in this chain is "The Jagged Crown" which is the one where you ultimately join one faction or the other. I have the next quest in my journal already ("Message to Whiterun") but I haven't done it yet. I posted about this before, and someone responded telling some console commands to use.http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/1419340-how-do-i-switch-sides-in-the-civil-war-using-cheats/I followed their instructions but it didn't work. They gave me the commands to end the current quest (Message to Whiterun) and to restart the previous one (Jagged Crown), and I could remove the Message quest from my journal but I could not get the Crown quest to start. I think the reason is that the Crown quest is already in my journal, but in the "completed" section. Even though it's not active, when I tried to start it again I think the game considered it to be a duplicate, & it won't let me have the same quest in journal twice at once. So puzzle here is "how to remove the Jagged Crown quest from my journal entirely, even from the 'completed' section?" How can I flag that quest as "undone", or un-flag it as "completed, or whatever? Is there a console command for that? P.S. Going back to an earlier save isn't possible. Even if I have such a save file, I finished that last quest many months ago & have gained a couple dozen levels since then, done a ton of other things, even played through the entire Dawnguard questline. That's too much progress to throw away.
Georgiegril Posted March 14, 2014 Posted March 14, 2014 As to the specific issue with The Civil War: (edited for spoiler tags) You can simply give the crown to Ulfric to change sides. As to you primary question, the only way to regress in the game is to revert to a prior save.
enderes Posted March 21, 2014 Author Posted March 21, 2014 So in other words, it can't be done. Not even with console commands.(BTW you all the parts of my post that tell I ALREADY GAVE the crown to TULLIUS. Past-tense. Done. Crown is no longer even in game.)
myztikrice Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 Quests are more than just a line in your journal, they are moving parts with aliases and scripts and character changes, and the Civil War questline is the worst one in the game by far. You'll either have to do it on another character or sacrifice your Dawnguard playtime and revert to that earlier save.
ACAkutare Posted March 23, 2014 Posted March 23, 2014 No. There is no way, either via console or mod, to "go back" in quests.
camaro_69_327 Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 And its always been this way...so since daggerfall i have always ... Make a new save when i get a quest, half way thru i make another Save. after finishing i make a new save...Later when i have to weed out saves (cause i have a thousand or so) I do it by levels and or pick a few that were at pivotal moments in the game. Hard drives are massive these days.
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