debrief.log

[Case]

It appears that in DCSW the debrief.log is only written at the end of the mission, when it is saved to Saved Games/DCS/Logs. In FC2 the debrief.log was written while events occured. Is there a setting in DCSW that controls this behaviour?

[Grimes]

Good question, that I don't know the answer to. I know the debrief data is stored someplace while the game is running as you can view it in real time in single player by pressing ('). However I'm not sure if it is any different for multiplayer. Assuming you are asking from a stats tracking perspective, you could pretty easily make your own debrief file via event handlers within the scripting engine.

[Case]

Thanks for the reply. Indeed I am asking from a stats perspective. I tried Xcom's event handler setup, but I find that most of the time the hit event handlers is not accurate as to which weapon was used. the debrief.log does have this information.

 

This may be because the script is run on the client side on the server, and it may be more accurate when it is getting data on the server side, but I do not know if the event handlers exist on the server side.

[Grimes]

MMmm, there shouldn't be much difference between the event handlers in the mission and server environments, but you never know. For the server events take a look at slmod and how it handles things within the server environment.