[SUGGESTION] Spontanous voices on the battlefield

Hi!

I have another idea!

This time it's about voices. I think that it would be really cool to make random things being said by different characters in different situations. The best I can do is give you an example:

Distress (getting hurt):

"Oh 5h1+!"
"My ass is on fire!"
"Dude, that hurts!"
"Ouch!"
"Never again!"
"Holy dolly!"
"D'oh!"
"Darn!"
"F***!"
"Whoa!"
"Can't see a thing in this smoke!"
"My mom's gonna dislike my new look"
"God save the Queen!"
"Am I missing an eye brow?"
"That was hot!"
"Excessive heating here!"
"Get me out of this air-conditioned nightmare!"

Victory upon a player (fragging, freezeing):

"Ha-ha!"
"Looser!"
"Gotcha!"
"Where's your mommy?"
"Silly kid"
"This ain't a place for kids"
"Grow up!"
"You like this?"
"Dude! You're botlike!"
"Swoooshhh!"
"Next!"
"O dude!"
"Did you see that?"

Victory upon a team (getting a point):

"Bunch of loosers!"
"Suckers"
"You guys better go back to playing with bots!"
"This is not a preschool!"
"If you guys wanna beat us, you better exercise more"
"Are you a /team/ or a group of unorganised noobies?"
"Victory never came so easily"

Random stuff to mumble while walking around:

"Can I have rest, please?"
"Hey, I want to ordr a cup of tea!"
"Is there anybody there?"
"La-la-la-la-la-la" (singing)
"Weeda-duba-du-da backstrokin' duda-ta-tuda duda-ta-tuda!" (singing)
"My legs hurt"
"This gun is too big to carry around like that all day!"
"Anyone recalls the old times?"
"Have you played Nexuiz 1.1? Huh?"
"Hmm..."
"Hey!"
"I have learned a lot of cool things from Yoda, you know?"
"I like this map"
"I'm doing this for years and I'm still not bored"
"Anyone wants to play chess for a change?"
"You guys remember Scorched Earth?"
"I like chocolate"
"I like rain"
"I hate subway"
"You hear this tune? I made it"
"Radio sucks novadays"

While passing by a teammate:

"How it's fraggin'?"
"Hi there!"
"Nice outfit!"
"What's up?"
"Hey!"

While standing by a teammate:

"Are you new here? I don't remember your face"
"Don't say that your mom did let you get here!"
"Does your wife know what are you doing?"
"Are you reading the newspapers lately?"
"Don't you thing that the weather is getting worse everyday?"
"I like rain, and you?"

While camping:

"What am I doin' here?"
"I think I should be going..."
"When I was talking about my legs, I mean I need to walk more."
"I gotta be moving"
"I feel like someone's looking at me with his bloodshed eyes"
"It's uncomfortable here, let's move"

There could be a variable to determine frequency of those random things getting said (I'd make it rather rare so If there are 10 people on the server, you don't here too much of talking). I'd say that those should be said in a frequency ranging from 1/ 2 hours to 2/hour (0.5/h ~ 2/h). So thy will be kept somewhat unique, not dominating the game, and adding nice little things.

I'd love to record those, would be nice to find more actors (male and female) with some audio equipment who can record stuff in different styles and in an acceptable audio quality

Just an idea to make the game have a little more atmosphere, be a little more interesting, and us have a little more fun from making it.

Please share your thoughts, folks

I like this idea. Unreal tournament 3 does this with it's bots, and it really helps to characterize them. However, it shouldn't be excessive. too much chatter woud get annoying fast, but it would be neat if they just occasionally shout taunts to each other.

That would be interesting if we could bring one of the only things Unreal Tournament III got right.

Nice Idea!

Alone on the map

Some one over here?
Hello?
*whistling*
Hello *echo* hello hello hello

After killing spree

Yaay!
In Rage!
DIIIIE POTATOE XD

...no more ideas

Hehe nice idea

I think it would be funny to have a key for it. If you press the button a random message appears according to the ingame situation and dependent from the playermodel.

(...) it shouldn't be excessive (...) it would be neat if they just occasionally shout taunts to each other.

Yeah. I completely agree. It should be a nice saucy addition to the game giving players some refreshing fun, but not dominating or daunting.

Nice Idea!

Alone on the map

Some one over here?
Hello?
*whistling*
Hello *echo* hello hello hello

After killing spree

Yaay!
In Rage!
DIIIIE POTATOE XD

I like those ideas

Hehe nice idea

I think it would be funny to have a key for it. If you press the button a random message appears according to the ingame situation and dependent from the playermodel.

I'd say it should be possible to make automatic commentaries or to make them on request (triggered with a hotkey). So by default players would not have to care about that, and their character would sometimes just say something randomly. Though more advanced players could switch to manual mode It would still be totally random though

Using a taunt system like this, we can basically establish players not getting killed when they're blown to bits, but merely teleported out of the arena like they are in Unreal Championship 2. For example:

*player gets brutally gibbed*
"I better run, he's gonna be pissed when he respawns"

*respawned player*
"RAWR!!!, YOUR ASS IS GRASS NOOB!!!"

I wonder what the likelyhood of getting stuff like this in the game would be. I imagine the hard part would be finding voices, but I imagine there's got to be at least a little bit of coding to do as well.

"My ass is on fire!" would be pretty funny, because it's something one'd rather expect to hear in a gay porno movie, along with some other of those quotes....

"My ass is on fire!" would be pretty funny, because it's something one'd rather expect to hear in a gay porno movie, along with some other of those quotes....

"My Ass is on Fire" is a song by Mr. Bungle

But I think it would be a nice thing to hear in the game.

What about people saying this on microphone? Like "i have allergies, don't shoot me".

Don't forget the classic:
"ARGH! My face my beautiful face!"

and of course
"GAY))"

Don't forget the classic:
"ARGH! My face my beautiful face!"

and of course
"GAY))"

i don't like that. It's homophobic.

Don't forget the classic:
"ARGH! My face my beautiful face!"

and of course
"GAY))"

i don't like that. It's homophobic.

You must be new here.

Don't forget the classic:
"ARGH! My face my beautiful face!"

and of course
"GAY))"

i don't like that. It's homophobic.

You must be new here.

Yes. Yes I am. At least on the forums. You're point being?

"Gay" means "happy"

This would be really great to have

What needs to be done are the voices themselves, as I think. The code implemention shouldnt be too hard (no idea, I jsut guess so )

I could make start doing a couple experimental voice recordings. maybe we should make a thread to post all of the accumulated voice recordings people do.

When I do them, I am going to choose one playermodel, and do all the voices for that player, so 4 or 5 (or more) from each of the categories unfa posted. then the voices can be organized into groups, with different player models told to only draw from the specific group for that player.

maybe we should use "GAAAAY" for when you get a frag, just to confuse people.

also,

That's homophobic

You're homophobic :p

Sounds rather useless and annoying. At least with a "turn off" button, please.

Sounds like that could be very funny, but it is important that the player you say it to, really can hear that. Maybe we should make it possible to turn it off, some people don't like this (but I do )

Also make some when fighting against more enemies at once:

Diediediedie you motherf***ers!
Come here! I'll pump your ass full with lead!

(This things should not be said, they should be screamed ass loud as possible in the microphone )

Anyway, fantastic idea, Unfa!

it could probably be put in as a volume option. like "dialogue volume". and if you dont want it, you can just put it to zero.

Yes, this is a good idea. I know this was in Nexuiz ("Watch your fire!" is something I unfortunately hear occasionally), so it's definitely not hard to implement.

I also like the idea of using it as a way to establish the idea that no one's actually being killed, just temporarily removed from the arena. (I'm one of the types who plays deathmatch games but doesn't like killing or guns or whatnot.) I don't think the characters should act like they know they're in a game, though. ("He'll be pissed when he gets back!" is okay, but "respawns" is probably too far.)

Maybe this should be part of a little menu on the HUD? Something I remember from UT is how pressing a key (I think V) would pop up a little bar at the side of the screen with some categories like "Taunts" and "Commands" and "Warnings", and you'd press one of their corresponding keys, and then it'd change to individual messages within the category you chose, and your character would say the message you chose. This idea could be combined with a "Allow automatic taunts" that would let your character do taunts on his own on occasion, otherwise the taunts would just never happen (peeps be too busy fraggin').

Nice idea !

I like the idea to give it another mixer strip (or plug it under some that exists already), but I don't like the idea of making if too gentle ("aw, you clumsy boy!") Just... this game is about killing each other, and as I can't (and don't want to) kill anyone in real life, I like the over-soaked illusion of bad things happening in the game It's unreal, and so I like it.

I might suggest that players are really dying on the arena, but they have been digitally and atom-precisely scanned, and they are just reproductions created by a machine so they can die several times and original player is living along. The figter is just a new, identical replica of their body placed on the arena again. Brutal and wicked sport of the future?

Maybeh!

No, I didn't care about their souls

There's maybe 6 in the opening post that would make sense/be professional to use, the others I wouldn't touch with a bargepole. Good idea though.