[The E]

One giant help in this is the Voice Acting Manager in FRED. It can extract all messages from a mission, assign filenames to all messages and briefing/command briefing/debrief stages, and generate a script from it. You'll still have to reorganize the complete script by role and add stage directions, but you won't have to copy/paste everything by hand.

[Kiloku]

Battuta, I wrote two drafts, both for Nothing is True. One has Laporte's lines and the other has Kukri 1's lines. Should I just upload it here, PM it to you or what? I want to know your opinion before continuing.

[General Battuta]

Google Drive plz.

[Kiloku]

Here you go.

There is also a file for Thorn's briefing in there.

[General Battuta]

These are great! If you can generate these for each role, and get the filenames in place, that will save me hours and hours of work.

[Kiloku]

I'll start working on the rest of Nothing is True, then. The speakers in the Command Briefings and some of the in-flight messages are a bit unclear to me, but I guess we can work together to figure it out.

[The E]

It would help if you could stick with the naming scheme we used for messages in WiH. In the Voice Acting Manager, the following settings should be used:
Campaign: bp2
Mission: mission number
Cmd Briefing Stage: cb
Briefing Stage: b
Debrief: db
Message: s
Suffix: .ogg

[Kiloku]

Will do.

[SmashMonkey]

Everything looked great except for one minor thing:

In Mission 6: Darkest Hour, one of the most epic lines in the entire series is from the Indus when it pops in to take out the Valerie.

But the way it's written and delivered kills one of the greatest moments in the game.

The line "This is the United Earth Frigate Indus, Second Fleet. Mars is responding to the Tev Blitz. We've been deployed to take some pressure off you Earthers" is delivered too calmly and professionally.

How about instead:

"This is the Indus, Second Fleet Mars. We scrambled as soon as we got the call" in a somewhat cocky voice?

[General Battuta]

The delivery right now is the way I'd like it played.

[swashmebuckle]

GB I wrote this new version and would be willing to record if you want to consider a change:

FINALLY, THE INDUS HAS COME BACK TO EARTH...Back to the planet...the BLUE PLANET...where it all started for the Indus. And let me tell you something...anyone, I mean ANYONE comes and messes with Earth, and I'll tell you what the Indus is gonna do. The Indus is gonna take their fancy ships, take their sissy beams, take their jabroni Admirals, the Indus is gonna roll them up in a ball, turn those sum*****es sideways, and STICK IT STRAIGHT UP THEIR ROODY POO CANDY ASSES.

IF YA SMELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL...What the Indus...is cookin'.

[AdmiralRalwood]

Captain Ricardo is simultaneously the most-loved and most-reviled officer in the fleet.

[Darius]

Steele won't take Earth





until it's stained





Mars-brown.







with our poop.

[Kiloku]

Working on the script, I'm wondering if there's a way to know the exact context for some lines.
There are a few that show up in the Messages listing but that never appeared while replaying the mission itself.

An example:
(Spoilered in case someone hasn't started WiH3)

Spoiler:

Sender: Kovacs
Message: Fast in, fast out. Let's infect all four miners and light them up.

Kovacs never said that in the three times I replayed the mission.

[General Battuta]

This is one of the hellish parts of making the script for Act 3 — there's a lot of unused dialog.

I suggest double-clicking on the message in the FRED message editor. That should take you to at least one of the events it's used in, if it's used at all.

[SmashMonkey]

The delivery right now is the way I'd like it played.

I see your point now. My idea for the delivery would trivialize it, and make it extra cheesy.

[General Battuta]

There's nothing wrong with your take! It's just not the direction we chose to play the scene.

[qwadtep]

Did Freespace Blue tweak the SOC loops at all? I was playing through today and it was painfully precise to keep the Hilton alive for any length of time in Rebels & Renegades, while the Asai frequently survived to maul the Iceni from behind. The Hamako similarly evaporates in the next mission.

[The Dagger]

I had problems keeping the Hilton alive too, the Mentu pounds it pretty hard with its flak. In my case, flying circles around the ship  to present a secondary target after suppressing what I could provided sufficient distraction to make it survive (barely) but I'm not playing on Insane.

[General Battuta]

Rebels and Renegades has been broken hard for years.