Mission Briefing

2Fort's mission briefing

The Mission Briefing is the informational chalkboard that is shown to the player after connecting to a game server. The board lists the objectives and notes for the current map, as well as screenshots of the map, appearing as Polaroids, taped to the chalkboard. The mission briefing is automatically determined by the game mode entities present in the map, in the same way the game mode is determined for the loading screen. The briefing may also be followed with the map's Introduction Video.

Modifying the Mission Briefing

Custom maps can override the mission briefing text, as well as the Polaroid screenshots.

Modifying the briefing text

The objective and notes text is stored in a localized text file for the map, located in the tf/maps/ folder. The text file is named after the map's full filename (without the extension), and non-English versions may be created by appending the language name.

mapname.bsp
mapname_danish.txt
mapname_dutch.txt
mapname_english.txt
mapname_finnish.txt
mapname_french.txt
mapname_german.txt
mapname_italian.txt
mapname_japanese.txt
mapname_korean.txt
mapname_norwegian.txt
mapname_polish.txt
mapname_portuguese.txt
mapname_russian.txt
mapname_schinese.txt
mapname_spanish.txt
mapname_swedish.txt
mapname_tchinese.txt

For example, cp_dustbowl_b1 would have require the file cp_dustbowl_b1.txt or cp_dustbowl_b1_german.txt.

 Note: In most cases, the automatically displayed briefing will work. This technique should only be used for maps with custom game modes, or if additional information may be required.

Trivia

• Similar versions of the chalkboard can also be found in the spawn area of each team, covered in equations and diagrams.
• The outside of the chalkboard is actually a 3D model positioned in the foreground.