This Place Is A Mess

Lead · March 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">...but why?</div> Does anyone know exactly what causes this to be triggered? It seems to go off randomly, sometimes when we're winning, and sometimes (most times actually) when we're losing. Just curious.

Supernorn · March 2003

maybe too many Stacked Offense towers?
I've heard it too, made the whole team laugh <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Gadzuko · March 2003

I think there's a (very small) random chance of it happening whenever a gorge places a building. Never heard it twice in one round, though.

Paq · March 2003

I have few times heard it too. Once i heard that when game started and i just evolved to gorge <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

FrickenMoron · March 2003

Yeah it definately has to do with chamber placement.
When i once turned feedwater into a living chambers farm (a chamber here, a chamber there but never stacked one) it suddenly said "This place is a mess" gave me a good laugh <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

SkinnY · March 2003

and this one time, in NS, when the third hive came up, it said "now we donce"..... and i've been looking in the sounds ( because i needed some for a map... ) and there is one that says "this is my hive, there are many like it, but this one is mine" and "we need better players" i think that one is funny... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

FrickenMoron · March 2003

The hive once said "We need better players!" After ALL aliens died in a failed rush on eclipse

Sephiroth2k · March 2003

mp_eastereggchance # if you are running a server <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Supernorn · March 2003

lol...and what would that do?

Phifth_Element · March 2003

I changed the sound of a marine dying to the sound "I see dead people" in a Kharaa voice (it is located somewhere in the sound folder). I could never tell, with the original dying sound for marines, if he was *dead* or reloading his weapon. Now I know for sure...you guys don't think this is cheating do you?

GWAR · March 2003

"this is my hive, there are many like it, but this one is mine" I havent heard this one played yet...

Narfwak · March 2003

From the server ops board:
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><b>ns_eastereggchance</b> - Set this value to x, where 1 in x+1 games will play humorous audio easter eggs in certain situations. Setting to 0 will enable them for all games. Currently this only affects alien audio easter eggs.</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
All the sounds described are easter egg sounds. They occur when certain triggers are met; I'm not sure exactly what those triggers are, but plenty of other threads of this type have sprung up, so you can go search for them if you really need to know.

Supernorn · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (x-treme @ Mar 11 2003, 09:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I changed the sound of a marine dying to the sound "I see dead people" in a Kharaa voice (it is located somewhere in the sound folder). I could never tell, with the original dying sound for marines, if he was *dead* or reloading his weapon. Now I know for sure...you guys don't think this is cheating do you?  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
marines dont have a reloading animation...if they were dead they would be on the floor...LOL..how can you confuse these??
But hey, if you made the kill then it isnt cheating...

Gadzuko · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (x-treme @ Mar 11 2003, 04:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I changed the sound of a marine dying to the sound "I see dead people" in a Kharaa voice (it is located somewhere in the sound folder). I could never tell, with the original dying sound for marines, if he was *dead* or reloading his weapon. Now I know for sure...you guys don't think this is cheating do you?  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
OMG HAX!!11!1

The way I tell if I've killed a marine is when the kill indicator comes up on the screen... if changing a sound is cheating then so is the kill indicator.

MooMan · March 2003

Rofl, thats a good one there x-treme, I may do that <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

KMO · March 2003

Why do people keep saying "Now we donce"? Is the way it's pronounced really that odd to American ears? It sounds perfectly normal to me (I'm English).

What nationality was the person doing the voice?

Edcrab · March 2003

<i>I'm</i> English (Cumbrian to be excact) and I originally thought that the voice said "Now, we're gods!" referring to power of third hive. When finding out it was actually "Now, we dance!" I was quite suprised. I have never, ever heard an English person (or anyone, really) pronounce "dance" to sound so much more like "donce". I can only blame the audio features used on the sound... unless the guy really sounds like that <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'>

I'm looking forward to more alien easter egg's (preffably hidden <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'> ) and some marine one's myself...

Redford · March 2003

The easteregg chance turned up positive for this game, a hive with a building or active hive has several marines inside.

"Donce" is a refrence to a word used in the messageboards of another mod, which was then in turn used frequently used in the NS IRC chat before release. For a while, MonsE would yell NO DONCING and kick anyone who used the word, for unknown reasons.

Jim · March 2003

someone said in a game that it played "this place is a mess" when you capture all nodes on the map other than the marine start one <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

Talnoy · March 2003

lol i just heard the "This is my hive, there are many like it but this one is MINE!"

you activate it by standing in a hive room alone with no buildings for about 30 seconds <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

Spyder_Monkey · March 2003

I hear "Now, we donce" when all 3 hives are up, and the first of the last chamber type is put up.

..as for "Donce". I believe that's from the voice-actresses' accent. It spawned in IRC shortly after a trailer was released.

Narf · March 2003

I have seen "dance" said in l33tish as "d0nce" for a while in the DoD Random nonsense forums for a while now... I thought that was intentionally done.

parkan · March 2003

I always thought "This place is a mess" was played n minutes into the game if not all three hives are up.

p4Samwise · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (KMO @ Mar 11 2003, 02:51 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Why do people keep saying "Now we donce"? Is the way it's pronounced really that odd to American ears?  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Yes, yes it does. Americans pronounce it "dance", with a short A. Contrast with the short O ("donce") that the hive says it with. (I once upon a time knew the formal descriptions of those phonemes, but I've forgotten them.)

A better spelling would be "dawnce", actually.

Elric · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (pittlord2692 @ Mar 11 2003, 06:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> lol i just heard the "This is my hive, there are many like it but this one is MINE!"

you activate it by standing in a hive room alone with no buildings for about 30 seconds <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Does that mean no hive/no resource towers as well? Just standing in an entirely empty hive room? Does it include players as well? Would be something to look forward to as gorge <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Ollj · March 2003

if you have all theese soundfiles in the ns/sounds/... folder this commands cause them:
Use them wisely and rare (!!!!!) because they get heared for the whole team (if the player has the soundfile, too) !
A good laught comes with the finish at the right time, not with a finish repeated for 10 times.

play hud/alien_mess
(this place is a mess)
play hud/alien_now
(now we donce)
play hud/alien_enemyapproaches2
(the enemy aproaches)
play hud/alien_seedead
( I see dead people)
play hud/alien_hivecomplete2
(hive construction complete)
play hud/alien_myhive
(this is my hive, there are many like it, but this one is mine)
play hud/alien_needbetter
(we need better players) always worth a laugh
...

play hud/marine_commanderidle1
(dont just sit there)
play hud/marine_lowresources
(running low on resources)
play hud/marine_order_guard
(defend target)
...

play vox/dedodedo
(hamster song)
play ambience/readyroomtrance
(readyroom sound of ns_misslecommand)

Dingy · March 2003

The sound file that says "This place is a mess" occasionally plays when you kill multiple marines in your hive area. I.E. their equipment is strewn all over the place. Just an FYI.

parkan · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Ollj @ Mar 11 2003, 07:57 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
play vox/dedodedo
(hamster song)
play ambience/readyroomtrance
(readyroom sound of ns_misslecommand)  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Those are both custom sounds, not in default ns install.

masterswordman · March 2003

Easteregg chance should be enabled by default to make the game more interesting

Silver_Fox · March 2003

regardless of what you think about accents, its said exactly how Flayra wanted it to be said. "Now, we don-ce."

Dont ask me why, I dont know where it came from, but it was a running joke in #ns for a very long time

Vash · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Spyder Monkey @ Mar 11 2003, 06:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I hear "Now, we donce" when all 3 hives are up, and the first of the last chamber type is put up.

..as for "Donce". I believe that's from the voice-actresses' accent. It spawned in IRC shortly after a trailer was released.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Whoa, it's a chick saying those things? How horribly you destroyed her voice to make it sound like the Overmind o_o

This Place Is A Mess

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