The more atmosphere the better, i support this

This. Would. Be. So. Cool.



"I'm hit, Losing power." "Get to the life-po....". "Oho, Suck ma lazor, BUG". "Do you like rockets? I have one for you right here"



Would be fun if the chatter could also have a humorous tune to it also

I loved the chatter in Homeworld, really immersed the player and made you care about your ships more, would love to see battle chatter brought in. It would also help to let you know how the battle is going which can be tricky at the moment with the random camera movement.

Gordon wrote:
This. Would. Be. So. Cool.



"I'm hit, Losing power." "Get to the life-po....". "Oho, Suck ma lazor, BUG". "Do you like rockets? I have one for you right here"



Would be fun if the chatter could also have a humorous tune to it also

Yes, yes! Write that down, yes!

Urdnot-Shepard wrote:
Yes, yes! Write that down, yes!

we need a thread with chatter suggestions lol

Sm31415 wrote:
we need a thread with chatter suggestions lol

Done

/#/endless-space/forum/27-general/thread/7563-com-chatter-oneliner

Definitely support this, awesome idea!

+1 great idea

Would be great.



Also needs to be toggleable in settings in case you dont want the backgroudn noise.

Nosferatiel wrote:
Hm. I'm just imagining the oneliners:



"Commander! Missiles incoming!" "Turn starboard! Starboard!! Initiate countermeasures!"

or

"All beam batteries on that ugly ship. Death to the Cravers!"

or in an eery voice

"Geth ssem. Wwe neeet foood!" from the craver side? XD

im already formulating voices in my head in preparation

A simple, do you have a good voice and can read these lines competition would be fun.

ArrowLance wrote:
You should just try pointing and shouting, it really is good fun and makes observers say wtf. Most certainly it would be an interesting feature, I just hope if implemented it would be disableable without having to delete audio files.

yes, if they do implement this they better have an off button, lol

SuperLordPedro wrote:
I loved the chatter in Homeworld, really immersed the player and made you care about your ships more, would love to see battle chatter brought in.

Yes! Another great example. Funny how a simple description of Kharak over the comm by Fleet Command after you arrive back from your training mission provides one of the most profound/impactful moments of any game I've ever played (although Adagio for Strings running in the background helped). Not some fancy cinematic, or heavily scripted ingame event, but just a simple voice conversation with background music. If voice comms are done right (ie not too campy or pompous), it can really hit home.

Would be awesome.

VieuxChat wrote:
That would be cool. But sound files can be huge an dyou need a lot of time to write the lines then record the voices.

Not exactly true, its as simple as creating an audition thread on a place like Voice Acting Club or Voice Acting Alliance (at least for those that want english speaking voices). I know for a fact that many months ago the dev team for an MMORTS called Novus Aeterno posted audition threads on VAA and VAC with at least moderate success. A link to the facebook page for said game



http://www.facebook.com/novusaeterno



And mp3 files don't take up too much space depending on the compression, the alpha build download was like only around 2GB anyway that isn't too huge.



Now yeah it would require a small bit of implementation but for a game like this that doesn't have big cutscenes like in an RTS like Homeworld or Starcraft between missions there wouldn't be so much dialogue where they couldn't fit it in places where it could already be implemented and wouldn't require changing a bunch of code.



For example, empire events like colonizing your very first planet outside your homeworld or settling on a hostile world environment for the very first time, etc. could be voiced without much hassle.



As for the com chatter idea, I love it. It would add a very nice aesthetic feel to combat.



One thing that would be kinda cool, though probably not implementable, would be to have a voice over for the tutorial boxes/sections. I've always liked having some sort of fleet command voice or something that is like an overview of what I'm doing if its implemented correctly and has a cool sounding voice.



Which would be nice considering I haven't heard a single voice over or voice sound effect the entire game, most of the audio is background music or mouse clicks period.

Gordon wrote:
This. Would. Be. So. Cool.



"I'm hit, Losing power." "Get to the life-po....". "Oho, Suck ma lazor, BUG". "Do you like rockets? I have one for you right here"



Would be fun if the chatter could also have a humorous tune to it also

Amplitude, please at least consider this.



You know what to do.

SuperLordPedro wrote:
I loved the chatter in Homeworld, really immersed the player and made you care about your ships more, would love to see battle chatter brought in. It would also help to let you know how the battle is going which can be tricky at the moment with the random camera movement.

Hell yeah, Homeworld had some of the best unit and random chatter I've ever experienced, along with Command & Conquer.



There would even be random chatter about things like running low on fuel, or things like "Uh, we have a situation here" if the fleet seemed outnumbered or outmatched. Random chatter not just when you were selecting or commanding units is the best kind of chatter because its immersive and you don't expect it.

rubicon_crossed wrote:
Yes! Another great example. Funny how a simple description of Kharak over the comm by Fleet Command after you arrive back from your training mission provides one of the most profound/impactful moments of any game I've ever played (although Adagio for Strings running in the background helped). Not some fancy cinematic, or heavily scripted ingame event, but just a simple voice conversation with background music. If voice comms are done right (ie not too campy or pompous), it can really hit home.

god i remember that, really hit me



and i was like damm this game is good



i still have the rather huge manual that came with it, i miss that sort of thing, big 700 page manuals

Chatter would be great, especially if it were gameplay specific, ie related to played cards, weapon & defense effects.

Yes, I think it would be great to hear your heroes talk (I think only heroes could be allowed to speak), giving orders in every new battle phase, changing with the card you chose.