[SPOILER] Console command to cancel an active quest?

[kahvin]

I got to the point where I have to make a choice to ally with one of the three factions in Defiance Bay, and stupidly I accepted the dozen's quest because I went to them first. Now somehow telepathically everyone in the city knows my decision (despite not having lifted a finger outside of a conversation yet..), and refuses to talk to me.

I have no interest in joining these extremist ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ (no offense if you like them), to the point that if there's no way to cancel the quest I'll just find out online how the story ends and move to the second game.

No I don't have backtrack saves.

[Du-Vu]

I don't know about console commands, but you could ask around one of the modding sites (Nexus, etc.). Might involve some save editing.

[TomGoodman]

I've encountered similar problem, but I accidentally accepted the Doemels quest, which barred me from taking Knights/Dozens quest.

I've managed to find a way to take the second quest of the faction I wanted. It involves editing conversation scripts in the game folder (you can find it through Steam: in the Library Manage > Browse local files). It does not involve using console commands (and afaik doesn't involve losing ability to get achievements)

for Clyver to allow you to take Crucible Knights quest, find the file Data/conversations/02_defiance_bay_first_fires/02_cv_clyver_rimgund.conversation and open it in any text editor. There, find any references to n_Gedmar_Quest_Stage, they look like this:

	      <Parameters>
		<string>n_Gedmar_Quest_Stage</string>
		<string>GreaterThan</string>
		<string>0</string>
	      </Parameters>

You need to change value of 0 to 1 (if you've just taken the Doemel changing of guard quest, and did not do anything else) for every of the found occurrences.
This will only work if you haven't asked Clyver for the quest yet (the dialogue line to ask is still active).

For other quests I don't know exactly what to do, but you can start by finding any

IsGlobalValue

checks in conversations that bar you from taking the quest. Also, you can cross-check node ids in that file with IDs of translated texts (located in corresponding files in Data/localized/en/text/conversations)