Hearing the enemies voice-talk
raven3333
Join Date: 2007-12-16 Member: 63186Members
Join Date: 2007-12-16 Member: 63186Members
<div class="IPBDescription">If you got close enough to the alien/human, you can hear them voice-tk</div>Maybe if you get a certain distance, you can start to gradually hear the enemies voices of their team using microphones. So if you were a skulk getting ready to run around a corner, and they heard you, you could hear them say over their microphone 'skulk!' and then retreat or something.... I dunno
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Face it guys NS maps are meant to be close quarters and there will pretty much always be an alien close by to hear you talking to your team on the map or vice versa for the marines, personally i think it wouldn't be a good feature to have in the game on release, but maybe a mod like that would work, a mod with a background being like an intelligence comm system built into the marines visors that allow them to hear everything the aliens are doing from a certain distance around the marines, and for the aliens they have a biological gene that allows them to learn to pick up any frequencies the marines are using on there visor intelligence system.
That is the only viable option for this kind of feature i can see is a mod or addon whatever it may be like how i explained it, an in game feature will take away a players freedom to securely talk to there team on the mic if its a release feature successfully making players type or talk on something like ventrilo or teamspeak.
(when the palyer start using MIC, the default noise is on around player... )
When I said mic spam, I was speaking of people who talk about their cat, motorcycle, breakfast, plans for thanksgiving, and how much beer they may or may not be intoxicated with at a given moment.
it would be great for atmosphere, but bad for teamwork.
also what makes you think that humans and kharaa can understand each other ? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
Scrambling a marine's voice wouldn't be realistic, just as cats hear humans speak as we do, but don't know wtf it means.
Though, you have a point - Alien players would be able to understand a marine saying "Over here!", whereas marine players wouldn't know the difference between "ERGH" and "ARGH" for the aliens xD
(Maybe the more time you spend near the opposite team members the more understandable it should be <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" /> )
Why should a voice call for a pg/rt etc be silent when a standard radio command is not???
and the other way 'round:
i really don't think kharaa would (in terms of the fiction) speak comprehensible english - i mean, if anything, they'd be speaking mongolian <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />
Because the skulk is meant to be a scout. Maybe its evolved its brain in such a way that its now a complete savant, it can understand millions of factors of speech and interpret all of them - combining all of them with the hive's huge database to translate them into the basic language the hive understands. Sort of like how a baby learns, except several million times faster.
I'd buy that.
Edit: Also, no alien can think by itself, all aliens are controlled by the hive mind and share knowledge.
I wouldn't.
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Fine.
How can <b>any</b> alien understand human language?
How can any animal understand human language?
They don't. Thank you for making my point for me.
maybe u should only hear conversation of ppl parasited.
or make it a special temporary ability.
Oh there is a skulk! all spam musik through ingame voice xD
i already had this on combat servers with alltalk on xd
Are you joking? It's because you've <b>trained</b> them to respond in that way to a familiar <b>sound</b>. That's common sense.
You could just as well teach it to sit when saying 'jump'. Dogs don't understand human language. Tell me, have you ever had a meaningful two-way conversation with a dog?
You could just as well teach it to sit when saying 'jump'. Dogs don't understand human language. Tell me, have you ever had a meaningful two-way conversation with a dog?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Are you serious? Animals can learn to understand human language to some extent the exact same way humans understand human language. They aren't smart and can't learn too many words, but what's stopping a hive from picking up language?
The question isn't whether or not it is possible in the NS universe for aliens to understand human language (they already hear sounds like "need medpack" etc), but whether it is benefiting the game mechanics. This quote pretty much nails it. You shouldn't be penalized for using a mic. And in a competitive scenario, this feature would be useless as the teams would just bypass it with teamspeak/ventrilo.
And you are close to them.
Sounds pretty realistic.