Autotaunts etc
Domining
Join Date: 2007-09-27 Member: 62452Members
Join Date: 2007-09-27 Member: 62452Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Marines are budding natural selectors</div>Sort of like in TF2, except instead of random taunts you'd actually have the marines say useful stuff. The marine will say one of these on events. Remember, less is more. They should also be heavily voice filtered, remove the high frequency ranges from the voice completely to leave pure bass. This will allow you to get away with having a single voice for all male marines while making them all sound bad ass
An enemy spotted autotaunt has to meet a few criteria first:
1) There is an alien within a 30degree arc centered on your xhairs,
2) There is a marine within taunt hearing range
3) No marine within taunt range has commented on aliens being in the area for the last 10 seconds, or for one area change (moving from say fusion to cargo)
4) The alien is clearly visible (uncloaked)
5) You fire your weapon
Also, if these criteria are met, the commander gets a nice little red ping on his minimap with a units are engaged (in combat) message.
<u>For skulk:</u>
- Skulk
- I see one
- Aliens
- Hostiles (FEAR style)
- Shoot him
<u>For lerk:</u>
- Lerk
<u>For fade:</u>
- Fade
<u>Onos:</u>
- Onos
- (possibly) Space cow
<b>Next are the kill taunts:</b>
1) An alien was killed with a primary or a secondary non-heavy weapon
2) No marine in the area has taunted for the last 10 seconds
3) At least one marine is present within taunt range
Ignore the above restrictions on kill taunts for higher life forms. The commander gets alerted if a higher alien was downed.
Skulk:
- Skulk down
- Got one
- Its dead
- Lerk down
- Fade down
- Onos down
A higher life form was knifed down or more than 4 aliens were killed in the space of 10 seconds
- Is anyone watching this?
- Darwin must be rolling in his grave
- My shrink says I need an outlet for my aggression
- You are ugly
- How's it going?
- Tell your boss I said hi (mostly concerns Milo)
An enemy spotted autotaunt has to meet a few criteria first:
1) There is an alien within a 30degree arc centered on your xhairs,
2) There is a marine within taunt hearing range
3) No marine within taunt range has commented on aliens being in the area for the last 10 seconds, or for one area change (moving from say fusion to cargo)
4) The alien is clearly visible (uncloaked)
5) You fire your weapon
Also, if these criteria are met, the commander gets a nice little red ping on his minimap with a units are engaged (in combat) message.
<u>For skulk:</u>
- Skulk
- I see one
- Aliens
- Hostiles (FEAR style)
- Shoot him
<u>For lerk:</u>
- Lerk
<u>For fade:</u>
- Fade
<u>Onos:</u>
- Onos
- (possibly) Space cow
<b>Next are the kill taunts:</b>
1) An alien was killed with a primary or a secondary non-heavy weapon
2) No marine in the area has taunted for the last 10 seconds
3) At least one marine is present within taunt range
Ignore the above restrictions on kill taunts for higher life forms. The commander gets alerted if a higher alien was downed.
Skulk:
- Skulk down
- Got one
- Its dead
- Lerk down
- Fade down
- Onos down
A higher life form was knifed down or more than 4 aliens were killed in the space of 10 seconds
- Is anyone watching this?
- Darwin must be rolling in his grave
- My shrink says I need an outlet for my aggression
- You are ugly
- How's it going?
- Tell your boss I said hi (mostly concerns Milo)
Comments
REGO DOMININGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
First offf after every bloody kill you get a stupid auto taunt, what if you are stalkign prey or what evrr and someone taunts auto around you and the marine knows your there its just stupid.
Get off the internet stop wasting time of the devs.
Taunts are merley for 'morale', and has no real strategic importance.
I beleive they got it right with 'Battlefield'. And the enemy spotted technique..
First offf after every bloody kill you get a stupid auto taunt, what if you are stalkign prey or what evrr and someone taunts auto around you and the marine knows your there its just stupid.
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(^^^ NERD RAGE)
What a gem of a post. Seriously, you go around baggin hoes and then you come and post on video game forums?
First off, you'll only taunt when you fire a bullet, bullet firing is pretty loud. Learn English & improve reading comprehension.
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Taunts are merley for 'morale', and has no real strategic importance.
I beleive they got it right with 'Battlefield'. And the enemy spotted technique..<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Call it auto-radio command then.
For example an Onos kill could be:
Level 5 lifeform was destroyed
I can see how this would pose a problem when mass killing of skulks is involved. that would indeed either need to be ignored or have a timer as suggested <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
I think taunts should be ingame, but should be manual. Some of the TF2 random taunts after you kill a particular player multiple times in a row could be nice (ie: I'm done playing with ya, boy *engineer*). But does it fit in a game where there probably wont be a nemesis/dominated system, that is the real question...
The commander would never hear the players directly. The interface lady should still be the one to inform you that your soldiers are reporting victory etc... At which point I guess it would be reasonable to let the player "jump" to the event using space. I think this is what you meant anyway.
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Well if you read them again you'll see that they aren't the taunts in the regular sense of the word. Mostly just the TSA marines informing their buddies in the area of what they see, I'd think it'd only be appropriate.
It'll also only taunt when more than one marine is around you. So if you are really sneaking:
A) You probably aren't going to shoot a skulk, because shooting a skulk would defeat the purpose of you sneaking.
B) You probably won't have a buddy sneaking with you.
There is no reason to not to want to inform the people around you that you see a skulk. If you're shooting something, there are probably aliens around so hearing "there it is" accompanied by gunfire would probably not harm anything. It'll only add to the atmosphere of the game and would streamline away the need for an "enemy spotted" key which nobody ever uses anyway. (which is the #1 reason for this idea)
i would also add combat taunts whit the following criteria:
"you, or someone around you has been harmed"
"you fire more than 10 bullets if using machinegun or 2 if using shotgun"
"nobody had used taunts for at least 3 seconds"
adding manual, and auto is ok. Hand signals=cool, even if ya cant understan them, u can add them WITH the taunts/commands, like with "Wait." "Stop." "Halt!" "I thought I heard something!" command button, you can make the marine fist his hand and raise it, like in real life halt sign.
Being a military fan, i know alot of them =P but i wont continue on that.
The taunts can add feeling to the game =D, the manual ones can be over the COM while auto can be like talking or yelling.
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THERE IS NO COW LEVEL!
ex. You engage a fade that is flanking your group - a notification is sent to your team-mates that you are engaging a fade from the flank. The fade is killed by a team-mate --> commander receives a text notification and/or an audio message that a level x life form has been destroyed. The marines in the group also get the same notification.
There are problems with this though that would need to be worked out. When would the alerts be justified? What if a marine randomly shoots at something that is intended to be difficult to see? Will the life form or structure then still be given away via the alert? Or should there be a range limit? Cloaked life forms that have not been hit obviously should not be announced. How about when marines are attacked by a variety of different life forms?
Lots of kinks to iron, but very helpful to improve information transfer between marines. It can be argued that a similar feature would also be useful for aliens via the hive mind.