Well, you can always manually delete outstanding tasks that are no longer needed through the CISTAR command tablet.

Honestly...the other thing I would recommend to "flag" optional tasks...simply name the tasks "name-optional".

I.e. Kill the HVT I would name Kill the HVT OPTIONAL.

It would show as optional in the tasks/briefing.

I know it sounds simple, but that would be the best way IMO.

@AUTigerGrad Well, you can always manually delete outstanding tasks that are no longer needed through the CISTAR command tablet.

Honestly...the other thing I would recommend to "flag" optional tasks...simply name the tasks "name-optional".

I.e. Kill the HVT I would name Kill the HVT OPTIONAL.

It would show as optional in the tasks/briefing.

I know it sounds simple, but that would be the best way IMO.

Yep. Both of these ideas are exactly what I would do if I was you.

When you manually generate a task, there's an option to rename the task in the commander tablet.

@vaguswarrior Ah, ok I see what you mean..I thought I would have OPCOM autogenerate tasks, versus a manual generation...but that works. I suppose I could hop into the Alive tablet during a moment of downtime and create a quick task.

Yeah it's better that way any way. About half the task are broken or unreliable in some way. I pick the ones I like and the ones that work and just do those. The task system is fun. I hope to see the faulty ones fixed eventually. It's a neat system.

Defend objects don't really work. The "clear the town" task doesn't work. Transport only sometimes works (the guy you have to pick up sometimes won't get in the vehicle).

So for me, the offensive ones are my favorite and pretty reliable. Kill the HVT I love. Destroy the vehicle I like (sorta). Also destroying the enemy cache is great too but sometimes fails to properly place the object that needs to be destroyed. I still really love that one so I recommend at least trying it, keeping in mind what needs to be blown up could be trapped inside 10 feet of solid concrete. :)

I'm sure I'm missing some but like I said, the ones where you go on offense all seem to not only be fun, but work as advertised.

If a task does not end up working properly, you can always delete the task via the tablet too.

Keep in mind the tasks I say don't work may be limited to A2 maps. Some of them probably definitely are.

I haven't tested Altis/Stratis in other words.

@HeroesandvillainsOS
do you have a solid list of tasks that work / dont work?

Solid? Not really. From what I'm seeing on A2 maps...

Kill the HVT, Destroy the Vehicle and Destroy the Infantry Patrol (or whatever it is called) work pretty well.

Transport troops sorta works (50/50. The dudes won't get in the vehicle sometimes. I think it's related to them sensing danger. They don't like to board the vehicle if danger is present). Destroy or blow up the supplies or whatever it's called also sometimes doesn't work (the item that needs to be blown up is sometimes either placed in 10 feet of solid concrete or it's tasked for a piece of literal garbage to be destroyed. This garbage cannot be blown up so the task never completes. It's the one that sits next to the fire barrel at an enemy camp site).

"Clear the town" which I believe is a civ assault never ever works. I'm not so sure one way or the other on "Mil Assault" tasks. Also the defend base never ever works either.

Basically, defensive tasks don't work. The offensive tasks are better but very unreliable.

Ok thanks.. do you recall if they are more reliable in general on A3 maps?

Spyder I think said something to that effect if I recall correctly. But I think it was just in regards to the clear the town objective.

I don't have any A3 map missions going so I can't say. The only thing I can offer is that when I first discovered ALiVE I tried Operation Landlord and the Transport Troops mission was broken then too. LOL! So yeah, at least some of them are broken regardless.

What I can do is test them for you if you'd like. I can't actually "play" ARMA right now thanks to the update breaking all my missions so I have ample time to run some tests. I can setup a vanilla Altis mission and test anything you guys might want help with. Let me know. It would be my pleasure. :)

If you're offering.. then yeah it would be helpful to test them one by one on Altis. Make sure you have -showScriptErrors enabled and/or your RPT file so we can look at the error messages. Try to run with just CBA and ALIVE. Let me know if you have any questions.. and THANKS!

No problem! I'll see what I can come up with. Is CBA 2.3.1 ok? I don't have any older versions. Just the newest one on Workshop.

Actually. No biggie if not, but if anyone had a bland vanilla mission on Altis set up to go and could forward me the mission.sqm that would save me some setup time. No worries if not.

I'll spend more time testing this tomorrow. Using a very slightly modified Operation Landlord. I spent an hour trying to see how mil assault would play out and I kept dying. LOL! I suck. Had to add the AI skill module before calling it quits. Hopefully now I'll suck less and can actually be good enough to start testing these with only ALiVE and CBA. Can't test if you die. :) Vanilla CSAT is much MUCH more skilled than CAF Aggressors which I'm used to. Wow.

Much easier if you are invincible - in debug console or in your player init line either:

player enableDamage false;
player setCaptive true;

Actually the 2nd one could cause issues.. .I would stick with the first.