Announcer or not?

[Aj]

How about codenames like: objective alpha, objective beta, charlie, delta and so on?

I like it.  It would also fit with the paramilitary theme for the mercs.

[SpinBolt]

i think that if you do an annoucned you should do it right. im thinking a male british accent, very subtle, nothing like the deathmatch style DA...

[frvge]

i think that if you do an annoucned you should do it right. im thinking a male british accent, very subtle, nothing like the deathmatch style DA...

"Excuse me, dear humble secret cooperatives. One of the terminals is currently being broken into by one of your team members". I think I prefer "The [type] terminal is being attacked"

[Valserp]

"Alpha terminal is bein' f**ked up, yo muthas!"

[MacBryce]

Maybe we need to let Microsoft Sam do it. Don't know him?

Start > Settings > Control panel > Speech
Type in "The red terminal is being attacked." and press "Preview speech".

[orthx.Machine]

i think that if you do an annoucned you should do it right. im thinking a male british accent, very subtle, nothing like the deathmatch style DA...

"Excuse me, dear humble secret cooperatives. One of the terminals is currently being broken into by one of your team members". I think I prefer "The [type] terminal is being attacked"

Most brits don't talk like that btw..

[frvge]

It was meant in a funny way  ::) ::) ;)

[Vega]

"Alpha terminal is bein' f**ked up, yo muthas!"

hahahahahahaha

[SpinBolt]

i think that if you do an annoucned you should do it right. im thinking a male british accent, very subtle, nothing like the deathmatch style DA...

"Excuse me, dear humble secret cooperatives. One of the terminals is currently being broken into by one of your team members". I think I prefer "The [type] terminal is being attacked"

thanks for your critisism. but i was talking bout the voice. i agree with you, we should just say "the 'blank' terminal is being hacked" but what i meant is that the actual voice is so aggresive. the voice should kinda be normal and casual. possibly like it is built into the mercs system? not just for informaing the player...

[Jordan]

Here you go. Pick MIKE.

http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

I'm also going to try and make a program that might make these, but with a little more 'umphh'.

[USAHOLIO]

mike still sounds a little too computery but im sure it could be adjusted a little bit

[MR.Mic]

Here you go. Pick MIKE.

http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

I'm also going to try and make a program that might make these, but with a little more 'umphh'.

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[Vega]

that website is awesome.  the voices sound a little odd because of the word combination but it's still cool and helpful.

[FlamingGimp]

Mic knows where I'm coming from with this.

I think the UT announcers are fantastic (lllllllast second save!), and suggest the implementation of a voice similar to the old school UT announcer. 

With someone who could deliver the lines solidly, and some editing afterwards, I don't think it'd be that hard to create a kickass voice.

Another consideration is, also like UT, a variety of voices.  Choices like female, sexy, male, etc, which will give the player a choice of what he wants to hear.

I'm also partial to named objectives (Pirates, Tea Room, etc), as not only did it make identification simple and understandable, but it helped to create a universal set of names for different rooms.  I know I'm not to keen on saying "Go to ALPHA!".  Considering it'll be the same names for each map, that's not intuitive at all.  Give everything a unique name.  Someone recording voices isn't going to have that much work to do, and I think that recording unique names would be worth it.

[goodkebab]

you guys would be amazed at what it means to get a professional sounding voice to act out the content mentioned. This person has to be available to the sound engineer and do it for free.  If we can get that content, then i think it would be great to add it.