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Civilizing the Marza's Speech

Civilizing the Marza's Speech

How do I edit a capital ship's voice clips

The ONLY thing that I really want to change about the game is the "Let's kick some ___" voice clip on the Marza.  Is there an easy way to change it?  I would even use one of the other Marza audio clips if it could work.

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Reply #51 Top

Exactly! And besides, what's this about toning down some mild cussing? I thought this game was called "Sins of a Solar Empire"?

I mean, we should see Marza captains dressed in wine-stained togas, idly giving extermination orders for whole planets (possibly involving lions in some form), with several captured, and naked, Advent admirals lounging at the base of their golden command seats!

Reply #52 Top

I think some of the crew in areas far from the reactor would be pushed outward by the parts of the ship between them and the reactor, then once they are out in the vacuum of space their blood boils as the dissovled gasses come out of solution and their eyes pop out of the skull and gaseous blood spurts out their mouths and noses and ears and their limbs get frozen solid and they shatter on the hull of a near by ship

 

I'm not precisely sure about the scale of these ships (would Craig like to enlighten us?) but I don't believe you'd be able to see bodies flying out...they'd just be too small!

Reply #53 Top

Quoting ManSh00ter, reply 1
Exactly! And besides, what's this about toning down some mild cussing? I thought this game was called "Sins of a Solar Empire"?

I mean, we should see Marza captains dressed in wine-stained togas, idly giving extermination orders for whole planets (possibly involving lions in some form), with several captured, and naked, Advent admirals lounging at the base of their golden command seats!

 

Garrrr, spoken like a true Marza Captain!!!

 

I find myself more of a Dunvo Captain myself.

Reply #54 Top

I'm not precisely sure about the scale of these ships (would Craig like to enlighten us?) but I don't believe you'd be able to see bodies flying out...they'd just be too small!

 

Well you can use strikecraft as reference point, if you imagine they are as big as modern fighters, you might be able to see something on maximum zoom, but i bet it would be difficult to even recognize it as a human, much less as an alien :D

Reply #55 Top


The ONLY thing that I really want to change about the game is the "Let's kick some ___" voice clip on the Marza.  Is there an easy way to change it?  I would even use one of the other Marza audio clips if it could work.

Why does that bother you?  I think it's great.  Just be glad that one of the ship voices doesn't say "F-Yeah" at some point (see Unreal Tournament 3).

If you're offended by vulgarity like the word arse, then you might be better suited for a game titled something like "Carebears and Friends" or "Bible stories" or some such.  Also, I suggest never subscribing to cable television or going to anything other than G-rated movies.  You can also find some very very naughty stuff on the Internet like, <gasp>, naked women and men and women touching each other in various ways, so you might want to reconsider your Internet subscription.

Stardock and Ironclad, please don't succumb to ninnies and make all of your games G-rated.  What happens when someone complains about all the violence in these war games?

Reply #56 Top

Quoting Star, reply 8
I've also had the same desire to censor a few other games, which is kind of weird.  I don't terribly mind the idea of him blowing up starships supposedly containing thousands of souls onboard or watching Legolas keep a running tally of how many orcs he's killed, yet I've trained myself to reflexively flinch whenever I hear the Marza captain speak that line whenever he's near.  I've come to the realization that my priorities might be slightly out of whack, but at least he'll be ready to conquer the solar system by the time he goes to college.  Not every kid can say that, can they?

I think you're doing your children a disservice by trying to insulate them from vulgarity and adult content.  I'm sure they're hearing all of it everyday in high school.  Besides, when they get to college, every other sentence is liable to contain the evil, horrible F-woyd in in some sort of way.

Reply #57 Top

Quoting ToJKa, reply 4

Well you can use strikecraft as reference point, if you imagine they are as big as modern fighters, you might be able to see something on maximum zoom, but i bet it would be difficult to even recognize it as a human, much less as an alien

I plan to imagine that I can see such a greusome scene next time I watch a ship blow up.

Reply #58 Top

Look, you just make a texanim texture containing bodies in various gruesome postures, then some other debris like pipes, desks, lockers, dogs and cats and then spew hundreds of those when a ship gets ripped open! They'd be very small, but they'd be there and trust me, it would add a lot to the visceral feeling of a brutal space battle.

Sure, it's only 2D sprites, but then again, your computer gets not to explode. :p

Reply #59 Top

Quoting ManSh00ter, reply 8
Look, you just make a texanim texture containing bodies in various gruesome postures, then some other debris like pipes, desks, lockers, dogs and cats and then spew hundreds of those when a ship gets ripped open! They'd be very small, but they'd be there and trust me, it would add a lot to the visceral feeling of a brutal space battle.

Sure, it's only 2D sprites, but then again, your computer gets not to explode.

 

Am I sensing an update to your explosions mod ManSh00ter?

Reply #60 Top

Quoting ManSh00ter, reply 16

I plan on fixing that for you in the latest version of the Volumetric mod. Thank god for modders, eh.

And hey, why not have them fly out of the stricken ship when a particular critical hit occurs! Maybe with a subtle audio stream full of expletives simulating the inevitable aggravation one feels when being ripped out of a spaceship and subsequently flash-frozen.

 

:fox:

Reply #61 Top

I'm not precisely sure about the scale of these ships (would Craig like to enlighten us?) but I don't believe you'd be able to see bodies flying out...they'd just be too small!

yeah, exactly what i was getting at - look at the size of a window :)

Reply #62 Top

Well, that's why you make them larger than actual size. Large enough to be distinguished when zoomed in, but not so large as to break immersion.

I'll definitely test this out for the next version of the Volumetric. Nothing speaks "damage" as seeing crew flying out of a hole ripped in the hull.

It'll be weird with the Xin though... space full of frozen calamari. :p

Is this thread officialy hijacked? :D

Reply #63 Top

yeah, exactly what i was getting at - look at the size of a window

 

Well if those are normal window sizes, these ships are very small....

 

Although I'm used to Battlefleet Gothic scale where battleships are 1+ miles long.

Reply #64 Top

Quoting -Ue_Carbon, reply 3

Garrrr, spoken like a true Marza Captain!!!

 

I find myself more of a Dunvo Captain myself.

I'm a Jarrasul Evacuator captian.

 

Quoting CenturionJixra, reply 5

Why does that bother you?  I think it's great.  Just be glad that one of the ship voices doesn't say "F-Yeah" at some point (see Unreal Tournament 3).

The way I see it is this: yes, I can live with swearing, but I don't have to like it. It's like murderers. Yes they exist, and I can live with that, but that dosen't mean I find joy in the fact that people are killed. I personally do not enjoy swearing, but there is no way around it, so I got over it. I have never sworn, and I don't plan to, but that dosen't make me a sissy, it just means that I have values.

Samurye.:ninja:

Reply #65 Top

I'm a Jarrasul Evacuator captian.
Take a cough drop, then.

 

:fox:

Reply #66 Top

Quoting ManSh00ter, reply 12
Well, that's why you make them larger than actual size. Large enough to be distinguished when zoomed in, but not so large as to break immersion.

I'll definitely test this out for the next version of the Volumetric. Nothing speaks "damage" as seeing crew flying out of a hole ripped in the hull.

It'll be weird with the Xin though... space full of frozen calamari.

Is this thread officialy hijacked?

 

You do realize that CanadaMan will want ones with flying Grunts for SotP, don't you?  After all, nothing says "victory" like dying Covenant.

Reply #67 Top

Quoting Kitkun, reply 15
:ninja:
I'm a Jarrasul Evacuator captian.Take a cough drop, then.
 

A Ricola then.

-TheDarth

Reply #68 Top

The way I see it is this: yes, I can live with swearing, but I don't have to like it. It's like murderers. Yes they exist, and I can live with that, but that dosen't mean I find joy in the fact that people are killed. I personally do not enjoy swearing, but there is no way around it, so I got over it. I have never sworn, and I don't plan to, but that dosen't make me a sissy, it just means that I have values.

I'm like this, as well. I don't mind the occasional swear in a game or movie, but I don't like when every other word is. On the flip side of all this, some form of swearing can actually be appropriate in certain situations. Too much censoring in these cases makes me feel like I'm not being treated as an adult but rather a child with sensitive ears who can't bear to here a few swear words. That I like even less than games and movies with a little too much cursing :P

Reply #69 Top

Quoting Annatar11, reply 18

The way I see it is this: yes, I can live with swearing, but I don't have to like it. It's like murderers. Yes they exist, and I can live with that, but that dosen't mean I find joy in the fact that people are killed. I personally do not enjoy swearing, but there is no way around it, so I got over it. I have never sworn, and I don't plan to, but that dosen't make me a sissy, it just means that I have values.
I'm like this, as well. I don't mind the occasional swear in a game or movie, but I don't like when every other word is. On the flip side of all this, some form of swearing can actually be appropriate in certain situations. Too much censoring in these cases makes me feel like I'm not being treated as an adult but rather a child with sensitive ears who can't bear to here a few swear words. That I like even less than games and movies with a little too much cursing

Die Hard is a perfect example wear swering in the righ places is  appropriate.

-TheDarth :ninja:

Reply #70 Top

Quoting Kitkun, reply 15

Take a cough drop, then.

COUGH DROPS ARE FOR WIMPS!

 

Samurye.:ninja:

Reply #72 Top

i guess a moderator should move this post now.  the original topic was already answered and now its digressed into an opinion thread.

Reply #73 Top

Quoting ShadowMastiff2468, reply 20
Lion King whne Simbad crashes in the field of flowers...a cloud of pettles goes up writing SEX into the sky! (dont believe check it out yourself!!!)

Also in Robert and Bianca (or whatver the two mouses thingy..) at some point they go through a venise like area and camera aims a window...look closely and youll see inside the window is picture of naked women!!!

 

DISNEY FTW!!! LOL 

haha.

hahahaa.

im looking at the lion king again, i just saw that a few days ago and did not see that at ALL.

 

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Reply #74 Top

There is a lot of that hidden stuff in most disney films. I once found a page listing most of them and I couldn't believe what I was reading.

Reply #75 Top

I think I'm going to weigh in on the keep-space-clean side of things... not so much because I'm thinking of the children but because I generally associate swearing with immaturity.  I like my flagship officers to maintain the decorum their station warrants, they can swear tastefully in private when they're NOT on the comm.