Voice Chat: Characters speaking for you

#1 - Sept. 14, 2012, 12:44 p.m.
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The idea comes from the old siege games (Jedi Academy game :>).

The idea is: You press voice chat button, you enter 2-number code and your character shouts out a message.

Example:

1.Request
1.1. Assistance
1.2 .Heal

2.Reply
2.1. Roger
2.2. Negative
2.3. Comming

3.Orders
3.1. Follow
3.2. Wait
3.3. Advance
3.4. Spread out
3.5. Retreat

This way in the heat of the battle players were able to shout out messages from the pre-prepared list, even running and fighting. Shouting out a command takes just 1 second and makes the battlefield much more…. living and belivable. And it is simply cool after all

#2 - Sept. 14, 2012, 3:02 p.m.
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This is a neat idea, and one that we briefly talked about when the game was in early development. It reminds me of the chatter presets from Day of Defeat and/or Counter-strike. I’ll bring it up in a meeting. No guarantees, though.