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Advent voices are annoying

Seriously.

April 10, 2012 11:24:48 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

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Some of them sound like whiney 10 year olds who were told "YOU CAN'T HAVE ICE CREAM," or worse---they sound bitter and angry because they went with the man in the ice cream truck.

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Reply #1 April 10, 2012 11:28:56 PM
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Some of the new ones are. The Discord battleship, while an awesome ships, gets on my nerves if its always the unit that gets selected first.

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Reply #2 April 10, 2012 11:41:45 PM
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I personally can't stand the voices of the Loyalist Corvettes... It makes me feel like being the emoticon on the right when I build a lot of them:

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Reply #3 April 11, 2012 12:31:39 AM
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lol I happen to like them

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Reply #4 April 11, 2012 12:46:38 AM
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Some of the older Advent voices sound the best in the game (which isn't saying a lot - the voice acting is pretty B-movie like overall) but the new ones on the corvettes are like anime rejects. The TEC voices and lines crack me up sometimes with how cheesy they are: "Secure the passengers!"

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Reply #5 April 11, 2012 4:37:55 AM
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Yeah, the voice acting is badly scripted. I would like to have an option for "informative radio chatter" instead of exact cheesy command-related one-liners. If the game works right and the player can depend on that the command interface and units do what the player wants them to do, there is no need to tell the player that "now we are attacking the ship you just clicked by telling that WE ARE ATTACKING!".

Sci-fi feeling tends to vanish when stupid sounding people say stupid things.

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Reply #6 April 11, 2012 4:42:06 AM
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my fav Advent voiceover is the Discord´s: ..."die! DIE!!!!"

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Reply #7 April 11, 2012 8:32:33 AM
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The Purge Vessel's captain wants a word with you, OP.

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Reply #8 April 11, 2012 12:14:10 PM
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Quoting Ekko_Tek,
reply 4
Some of the older Advent voices sound the best in the game (which isn't saying a lot - the voice acting is pretty B-movie like overall) but the new ones on the corvettes are like anime rejects. The TEC voices and lines crack me up sometimes with how cheesy they are: "Secure the passengers!"

I dunno, some of the quotes are quite memorable. Not in Rebellion yet, but the Vasari had some fantastic voice acting.

"Searching a planet has NOT FOUND ANYTHING!!!" *seething rage, about to push the button to blow the stupid Vasari scavangers who wasted the empire's money to smithereens*

 

Quoting Timmaigh,
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my fav Advent voiceover is the Discord´s: ..."die! DIE!!!!"

 

My ears! They burn!!!

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Reply #9 April 11, 2012 12:24:15 PM
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I thought some of the alerts for Advent are really well done.

 

"Heathens are attacking our flagship!" - sounds legitimately scandalized.

"We have almost completed a groundbreaking project." - sounds smug and self-satisfied.

 

The main issues with corvette build announcements are that they get played so frequently and are relatively high-pitched. Lower the pitch and/or reduce the frequency and they'd be fine.

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Reply #10 April 11, 2012 1:06:55 PM
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Quoting Ekko_Tek,
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The TEC voices and lines crack me up sometimes with how cheesy they are: "Secure the passengers!"

Sins is a serious strategy game. But not too serious. I like some of those "cheesy one liners" and things like space ponies just to break up all the planet nuking sometimes. When they do it well like with the new space pirate voices its great.

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Reply #11 April 11, 2012 1:16:17 PM
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Advent corvette sounds like a whiney preteen attempting to sound badass. Agreed that it's too high-pitched.

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Reply #12 April 11, 2012 2:54:15 PM
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Quoting GoaFan77,
reply 10
Quoting Ekko_Tek, reply 4The TEC voices and lines crack me up sometimes with how cheesy they are: "Secure the passengers!"

Sins is a serious strategy game. But not too serious. I like some of those "cheesy one liners" and things like space ponies just to break up all the planet nuking sometimes. When they do it well like with the new space pirate voices its great.

No, I know, I wasn't meaning to be too hard on the voicework overall, I've come to appreciate the cheesy TEC lines in a sort of nostalgic old school sci-fi way. I really hope for all the corvettes though that they re-think the way the line triggers each and every time. Maybe there's a short, alternate line that could be used for when building past a certain number?

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Reply #13 April 11, 2012 3:36:53 PM
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Quoting Teun-A-Roonius,
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I personally can't stand the voices of the Loyalist Corvettes... It makes me feel like being the emoticon on the right when I build a lot of them:

Yes! The Advent already were a bit anoying to start with, but the newest ships are so much worse. Maby as a secret wepon for the advent you can have it so that your opponants hear them intstead of you. I think even an AI would rage quit .

Might solve the problem of the advent being so weak

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Reply #14 April 11, 2012 3:46:18 PM
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Advent Rebel Corvettes are good though.

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Reply #15 April 11, 2012 4:35:58 PM
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I agree. The Advent titans are too angry, OP.

 

III've got your back.  

 

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Reply #16 April 11, 2012 7:51:29 PM
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lol @ cheese comments.

 

I love playing Advent. I just can't stand the bulk of the voiceovers. Then there's the whole "I'm biulding 80 cruisers" thing. You get a constant repeat of the same line. Over. And over. And over. Thats with any race of course, but I wish there was something to be done to tone down how often it fires off. How about first built and last built.

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Reply #17 April 11, 2012 9:19:43 PM
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The Vasari have the best lines... My favorite is the bomber squadron "Deeeeaath from ABOVE!!"

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Reply #18 April 11, 2012 10:16:54 PM
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I have to love it when the TEC Rebel Titan responds to an attack order with "Eradicate those filthy rats!". The first time I heard that I couldn't stop laughing.

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Reply #19 April 11, 2012 11:22:25 PM
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Quoting Teun-A-Roonius,
reply 18
I have to love it when the TEC Rebel Titan responds to an attack order with "Eradicate those filthy rats!". The first time I heard that I couldn't stop laughing.

I get a warm fuzzy feeling from one of the ALT's attack quotes - "Their worlds will burn in the Unity's flames!"

I hope that this does not make me a bad person.

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Reply #20 April 11, 2012 11:26:35 PM
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I hope that this does not make me a bad person.

It doesn't. It makes you a bad bird with a drill beak.

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Reply #21 April 11, 2012 11:56:11 PM
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It doesn't. It makes you a bad bird with a drill beak.

My Diggle cousins and I shall smite you.

Also, have some karma. It has been awhile since I last laughed.

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Reply #22 April 12, 2012 12:46:17 AM
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April 11, 2012 3:36:53 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Quoting Teun-A-Roonius,
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I personally can't stand the voices of the Loyalist Corvettes... It makes me feel like being the emoticon on the right when I build a lot of them:

Yes! The Advent already were a bit anoying to start with, but the newest ships are so much worse. Maby as a secret wepon for the advent you can have it so that your opponants hear them intstead of you. I think even an AI would rage quit .

Might solve the problem of the advent being so weak

 

 

 

The Advent are far from weak my good man =]

 

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Reply #23 April 12, 2012 3:57:23 AM
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Quoting Yottsu,
reply 19

Quoting Teun-A-Roonius, reply 18I have to love it when the TEC Rebel Titan responds to an attack order with "Eradicate those filthy rats!". The first time I heard that I couldn't stop laughing.

I get a warm fuzzy feeling from one of the ALT's attack quotes - "Their worlds will burn in the Unity's flames!"

I hope that this does not make me a bad person.

 

that warm feeling is from the heat of their worlds burning in the Unity's flames (and I love that quote too).

while the corvette build notices don't seem as frequent, a potentially easy way to make them less intrusive might be to make their volume lower and overlay some static so its easier to tune out.  

i dont mind the Discord's voice, but it may just be a pavlovian response to it's awesome debuffs.

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Reply #24 April 12, 2012 4:10:18 AM
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Have to add my name to the "who let an Advent Alvin Chipmunk on the Corvette bridge?" complainer list.

I would hazard a guess that the root cause is that someone recorded those voices in a normal voice and then sped up the audio to raise the pitch, resulting in a squeaky effect that sounds childish. 

Ear grating - please fix. 

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Reply #25 April 12, 2012 4:15:29 AM
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Quoting Yottsu,
reply 21

Quoting GoaFan77, reply 20It doesn't. It makes you a bad bird with a drill beak.

My Diggle cousins and I shall smite you.

No one panic.

I'm on the case.

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