Options & Commands

There are plenty of options in the settings menu to configure the captions.

Closed Captions enables closed captions.
Subtitles determines whether the SFX effects are shown in captions. If set to On, only dialogues will appear.
Font is the font that the caption system uses.
- Lexend as the default P2CE / Strata source font;
- Univers from Portal 2;
- DIN 1451 from Half-Life 2;
- Verdana as the fallback option;
- Noto Sans from Steam Deck interface;
- Stratum2 from CS:GO
Font Size is the size of the font, in units per pixel (pt)
Background Opacity is the opacity of the black background box
Text Margin determines how far the text is from the edge of the background box
Text Alignment determines alignment of the captions (left, middle, right)

Additionally, there are the following console commands:

Command	Description
`cc_panorama`	Enable usage of Panorama Closed Captions over Legacy VGUI
`cc_lang`	Sets the language for the captions. Does not require map restarts - the next caption token will be displayed with a new language.
`cc_captions_debug`	smth
`cc_captiontrace`	Shows missing closecaptions (0 = no, 1 = devconsole, 2 = show in hud)
`cc_emit`	Shows a specified caption and plays its sound
`cc_emit_raw`	Same as `cc_emit` but raw text can be inserted
`cc_findsound`	Prints name of the sound the specified token is attached to
`cc_linger_time`	Close caption linger time
`cc_minvisibleitems`	Minimum number of caption items to show
`cc_norepeat`	In multiplayer, don't repeat captions more often than this many seconds
`cc_panorama_log`	Enables Panorama CC verbose logging
`cc_panorama_reload`	Reloads caption definitions for Panorama subtitles only
`cc_sentencecaptionnorepeat`	How often a sentence can repeat.
`cc_sfx_linger_time`	Close caption linger time for items marked as SFX
`cc_showmissing`	Shows missing closecaption entries.
`cc_subtitles`	If set, don't show sound effect captions, just voice overs