[Yarn]

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.

[Goober5000]

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).

[Droid803]

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

[AndrewofDoom]

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

[Droid803]

Oh right those things exist!

[Mongoose]

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.