Mission Impossible: War Table Ops

[ovinnik]

On the off chance that anyone's still reading this:

I've been cudgelling both my brains and Frosty Editor in hopes of figuring out how to trigger War Table operations.

The only ops with easily accessible plot flags are those further down some quest chains. They can be triggered using a flag found in the AfterActionReportActions of their preceding op. Even so, not all consequtive ops seem to be triggered this way; sometimes their preceding ops don't provide any.

Unsurprisingly, initial War Table ops (the first ones in a chain of quests) and standalone ops (those not part of any chain) are even more of a mystery. I've tried various approaches, ranging from questionable edits to WarTableAssets to scouting for potential plot flags in JournalSystem.ebx/.xml. So far, no dice.

I've also thought about replacing an existing op with the one I'd like to trigger. That would obviously come with multiple caveats, so I'm not too keen on this.

The (likely) bug that sent me down this path is Ser Barris' missing War Table quest chain and subsequent promotion when the player disbands the templars. The related dialogue assets look fine: There are flags for whether one has allied with or disbanded the templars, and for whether or not Barris lives and becomes an agent. These all seem to be set correctly and should work.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious. In fact, that would be awesome.