GalNet Audio: Week in Review

[Justinian Octavius]

Just wanted to say that this is great & just what ED needed! Top stuff FDev.

CMDR Justinian Octavius

 

[PiLhEaD]

Agreed, and let's hope it's the start of more text to speech in the game.

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

Yep. All the need now are galmap links on the stories.

 

[SAB380]

Only thing that was disappointing was that it only went for an hour+
I want it on all the time while traveling. Tell me everything about the Elite-verse and the galaxy in general

 

[Franc Kaos]

I believe 3.4 is gonna have an ingame encyclopedia so maybe that'll be voiced. I would like the random NPC transmissions voiced, that would be cool.

 

[Lightspeed]

I actually 'read' (listen to) Galnet now, because of this feature. It's a move in the right direction. Now it needs to be kept up to date, with very timely entries that reflect what is happening, latest news, even news flashes.

 

[Kleitias]

The 'Week in Review' is a very good idea, complementing Galnet Audio well. I agree that we need more of stuff like that!

 

[PanTast]

Hmm. Maybe let it read an entire book of the history of the empire and the federation to you? On a long exploration tour the galnet news do not cover much time

o7

Or you can get the book Premonition from FD store and it reads it to you (for you?)

 

[Leo Sagan]

One of my favorite features in 3.0, GG FD !

 

[Blackcompany]

It resets to the beginning every time you pause and resume.

Its a dry monotone.

It wasnt interesting to read. Unsurprisingly, listening to it, doesnt make it better.

This isnt how you deliver narrative content in a game.

 

[SentineI]

Galnet Audio is great as far as it goes... which is only a handful of 'galaxy wide' news articles, but then you've listened to all of that in say 10 minutes, and so there's no point in using Galnet Audio again - until stuff gets updated in a week's time.

I can't believe Galnet Audio does not let you listen to *Galnet News* from the local system feed. It's such a missed opportunity. We could hear which faction is fighting/loosing, or that the system is in famine & desperately needs food, or it's under civil war, etc. Would really bring the ED universe alive IMHO.

Also would be good if it remembered which items we've already finished listening to, so we don't go "zzz hear that before" all the time.

 

[Saool]

Love this feature. I was very much enjoying going about my business whist listening to it.

 

[Blackcompany]

Galnet Audio is great as far as it goes... which is only a handful of 'galaxy wide' news articles, but then you've listened to all of that in say 10 minutes, and so there's no point in using Galnet Audio again - until stuff gets updated in a week's time.

I can't believe Galnet Audio does not let you listen to *Galnet News* from the local system feed. It's such a missed opportunity. We could hear which faction is fighting/loosing, or that the system is in famine & desperately needs food, or it's under civil war, etc. Would really bring the ED universe alive IMHO.

Also would be good if it remembered which items we've already finished listening to, so we don't go "zzz hear that before" all the time.

Exactly this. It just needs to do more.

 

[S3B4ST13N]

Listened to a single article; didn't like it, haven't listened since.
Glad some are getting use out of it though.

 

[Jack Schitt]

It resets to the beginning every time you pause and resume.

Odd. It's never done that for me, in beta or the main game.

 

[kilvenny]

Spoken Galnet is great. All it needs now is content so it has variety. Normally I can only play once a week for which it works fine, but this week I have had multiple times to play, so you appreciate the lack of content. ie its repetitive.
Every jump it should be able to tell you the system you have entered. The faction in control, the state of the system. The NPC texts could also be voiced. I see so many applications for this technology.