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Title: Question about debriefing personas
Post by: Yarn on October 15, 2012, 06:11:29 pm

How does retail FS2 decide which debriefing persona to use? A look through retail FRED, the retail FS2 campaign file, and the wiki doesn't seem to reveal anything. I know about the "+Debriefing Persona Index:" flag, but that's for FSO only.

Title: Re: Question about debriefing personas
Post by: Goober5000 on October 15, 2012, 09:38:28 pm

Retail FS1 and FS2 had it hard-coded.  The game knew which persona to apply for the Volition-provided campaigns, but for everything else it defaulted to Admiral Wolf (in FS1) or Admiral Petrarch (FS2).

Title: Re: Question about debriefing personas
Post by: Droid803 on October 15, 2012, 11:17:33 pm

Wait what does the persona for debriefing matter for anyway.
Don't you just specify the voice file?

Title: Re: Question about debriefing personas
Post by: AndrewofDoom on October 15, 2012, 11:21:19 pm

Debriefing persona deals with things like medals and promotions, which you can't specify in the debrief editor.

Title: Re: Question about debriefing personas
Post by: Droid803 on October 15, 2012, 11:27:15 pm

Oh right those things exist!

:nervous:

Title: Re: Question about debriefing personas
Post by: Mongoose on October 16, 2012, 01:06:15 am

The fun part is when you're playing a voiced campaign that doesn't define personas, or else had played one before that code was in place, and suddenly get random Petrarch before the actual debriefing. :p