EPTI mean then in anything vs zerg then it will pretty much always say that omfg 20 lings vs 10 zealots run away!
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semantics
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I mean then in anything vs zerg then it will pretty much always say that omfg 20 lings vs 10 zealots run away! | ||
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obesechicken13
United States10467 Posts
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lossofmercy
United States29 Posts
omfg 20 lings vs 10 zealots run away! And thats way better than right now. Two solutions: Better voices. Would require more voice acting, etc. Better awareness: Simple commands, like if the unit is not attack moving and there hasn't been a command given to it for X seconds, it has the ability to cry out. The next one is to see if the health is critical. The other one is unit awareness. | ||
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ItsPaul
Australia177 Posts
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Chen
United States6344 Posts
"WE CANNOT HOLD" -__________- | ||
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Darpinion
United States210 Posts
On March 19 2010 05:47 Bibbit wrote: So I'm in my base like building depots/ calling down mules or whatever when one of my units gets attacked. Even if it was just one opposing unit who took like one shot and immediately died, I'll hear something like "We cannot hold" or "A little help here" or "OMGZ I broke a nail" (one of those was made up). I don't know if this has been mentioned or maybe I'm the only one with a problem with this but it just seems kinda ridiculous. Should they just say something like "Your forces are under attack" or something like that? My apologies if I'm just getting overly concerned about stuff that doesnt matter at all. I couldn't agree more. It pisses me off when I leave my important macromanagement to find out that my 50 zealots are getting attacked by four broodlings that they feel the need to bitch about. | ||
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Bibbit
Canada5377 Posts
On March 19 2010 14:23 Darpinion wrote: I couldn't agree more. It pisses me off when I leave my important macromanagement to find out that my 50 zealots are getting attacked by four broodlings that they feel the need to bitch about. To be fair, if theres broodlings attacking your guys, theres some scary shit nearby as well. | ||
conTAgi0n
United States335 Posts
On March 19 2010 10:35 blipster8 wrote: I see a couple of separate issues being discussed in this thread. 1) The "We're in combat now" notifications are largely retarded, especially the Protoss ones. This isn't a gameplay issue, since it'd be fixed just by recording different sounds to play. 2) A few people are saying (some even seriously) that units should calculate whether they can win the battle before deciding whether to whine at you. I hope a large majority of us can agree that this makes no sense at all. 3) Some people are debating whether there should be a second set of sound effects for when your units actually die. Not sure if I have an opinion either way on this, though I'd call it theoretically debatable in either direction. Good summary. The first point seems to be the main one. I don't like the idea of units getting any dialogue when they die, but non-verbal sound effects like in Brood War would be good. Here's an idea though: what if you got the generic "your forces are under attack" message upon engaging with enemy units but received the "we cannot hold!" type messages whenever a unit's health bar entered the red? The panic messages would then make a lot more sense and actually be useful as well. | ||
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Holden Caulfield
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NarutO
Germany18839 Posts
On March 19 2010 06:12 Kennigit wrote: You know normally i would just snap-close this but i 100% agree. When a zealot is screaming "WE CANNOT HOLD!" im like, are you fucking kidding me? You're just going to get respawned into a goon in a few days - relax kid. If there was some context to it (maybe there is and im just missing it), i could understand...Yes it's a tiny "issue", but i agree that zealots do sound like pansies as a result lol. Reach would slap his Zealots if they tell him that they can't hold :D | ||
CTStalker
Canada9720 Posts
either make them say something truly generic, like "your units are under attack / attacking!", or use different messages depending on how the battle is going (a lot more difficult). | ||
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Licmyobelisk
Philippines3682 Posts
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Piousflea
United States259 Posts
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Irrelevant
United States2364 Posts
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Tomer
United States105 Posts
On March 19 2010 06:29 Chill wrote: yea, i hate that too. which unit is it that yells "WE CANNOT HOLD" whenever they engage in combat? zealots? that makes me think they're dying every time, and then I look and they're just fighting normally. the void ray too "PRISMATIC CORE FAILING!!!" makes me react like "HOLY SHIT GET OUT OF THERE" and then i see 7 void rays fighting a hydra. I know it happens all the time lol! If the warning were more neutral your first instinct would probably be to look at the mini map again, instead we just tell everything to run away then look at the one hydra  | ||
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789
United States959 Posts
On March 19 2010 14:10 Chen wrote: 1 scout marine goes up and pokes a shot at your 150 food army with multiple collosi "WE CANNOT HOLD" -__________- To be fair ... that marine had a gun. As for the topic ... yeah this stuff is a minor annoyance sometimes, especially with how dramatic some of the phrases are. I think the individual phrases are ok in some instances ... like a medivac having it's own unique phrases. I think all combat units should have a race specific general phrase. Edit: Though it's a trap from the BCs is awesome. | ||
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Spawkuring
United States755 Posts
Seriously, there are so many easy ways to solve this problem it's almost sad. I'll be pissed if this simple problem isn't solved by retail simply because it adds a lot of personality to the game and takes little to no effort to implement. | ||
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zoLo
United States5896 Posts
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alpskomleko
Slovenia950 Posts
On March 19 2010 07:08 Bibbit wrote: I might just be hallucinating this one but do overlords make some dirty like old man sound sometimes? Noticed this as well. At first I thought my adversary had his mic on and was sighing about some thing in our game or other. | ||
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Tareth
United States46 Posts
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