Comms Chatter

Cmdr Kasei · Jun 28, 2015

Keeps you awake on your hundredth run, blumhagen

Karakhian · Jun 28, 2015

I like how now, when I'm in a combat-fit Vulture, and an NPC shieldless Sidewinder pirate comes up and scans me, it comes up with "Hey man, I don't want no trouble," or words to that effect, and then slinks off.

Though there is still the occasional insane lunatic newbie pirate, clearly high on Onionhead and overexcited at owning his first new Sidewinder, who decides to have a go. Which is also great, heheh.

Love the variety.

Eagle3 · Jun 28, 2015

Karakhian said:
I like how now, when I'm in a combat-fit Vulture, and an NPC shieldless Sidewinder pirate comes up and scans me, it comes up with "Hey man, I don't want no trouble," or words to that effect, and then slinks off.
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Love the variety.

Cracked me up the first time I saw that. I thought, "wow, finally a common sense NPC.

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askavir · Aug 5, 2015

Human Comms chatter

I've been saying it for a while, some human voice comms chatter in appropriate places, like around stations, or when requesting docking / launch would do wonders for in-game imersion, instead of the robot female ship voice.

It was one of the most amazing details in the Horizons trailer.

[video=youtube;B4sAe16UTDg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4sAe16UTDg[/video]

Jacob Marshall · Aug 5, 2015

Absolutely, thought the same when I saw this trailer; also thought that whenI watched a vid someone linked, think it was about humans hunting flying-flesh-eating-deep-sea-whales on alien planets.

Given the excellent job the sound dept. have done in this game, I'd love to see that they could do with this.

Daitak · Sep 20, 2015

NPC coms chatter

I think it would be great if we could hear the radio chatter between ships and also radio messages between your ship and station
ie if you are in a nav beacon u can here radio chatter between the ships

Arubeto · Sep 20, 2015

Would be cool, but doesn't seem to be likely, if the recent "Answers from the devs" is anything to go by:

Zac Antonaci said:
We added a load more chatter variants as part of the CQC Update and as new NPC circumstances are added (such as new scenarios, or triggers) then we add more chatter. We also want to look at chatter providing hints and clues to hidden or secretive events like treasure hunts. There are no immediate plans for text to speech.

Daitak · Sep 20, 2015

ooh well it would have been a lot more realistic

Fyrd Judge · Oct 13, 2015

Ambient Aircraft chatter

For those who want Ambient military aircraft backgorund chatter, 2 hours of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XIsRQ1q_HA

777Driver · Oct 13, 2015

Not that I'd use it for ED, but live ATC is very good http://www.liveatc.net/

Erimus Kamzel · Oct 13, 2015

This is the sort of thing I hoped we would eventually get when approaching busy star ports... a background ambiance of overlapping traffic control and communication dialogue that increases in volume as we approach the station, and decreases as we move further away.

777Driver · Oct 13, 2015

Erimus said:
This is the sort of thing I hoped we would eventually get when approaching busy star ports... a background ambiance of overlapping traffic control and communication dialogue that increases in volume as we approach the station, and decreases as we move further away.

You do actually have faint background chatter if you are facing the starport, or docked with the starport menu open.

Riedquat · Oct 13, 2015

That reminds me of something I made for a mod a while back, I took some military aircraft chatter and modified it to sound like Alien chatter.

https://soundcloud.com/dkw_music/alien-chatter/s-c9Ojk

Koen · Oct 13, 2015

Chatter mixed with ambient music:

NASA: http://youarelistening.to/nasa

Number stations: http://youarelistening.to/numbers

JFK control tower: http://youarelistening.to/jfk_atc

You can also create your own on that site: http://youarelistening.to/byo

Erimus Kamzel · Oct 13, 2015

777Driver said:
You do actually have faint background chatter if you are facing the starport, or docked with the starport menu open.

I know. But its barely noticeable and there aren't any adequate ambiance volume controls in the audio options. An option to turn background ambiance up and lower ship engine sounds etc, so the radio chatter becomes more noticeable around stations', could help create a better 'busy spaceport' vibe.

DaMorgs · Oct 13, 2015

Erimus said:
I know. But its barely noticeable and there aren't any adequate ambiance volume controls in the audio options. An option to turn background ambiance up and lower ship engine sounds etc, so the radio chatter becomes more noticeable around stations', could help create a better 'busy spaceport' vibe.

There's an option in SOUNDS to get all sounds to the same level - I believe it's the NIGHT setting. Give that a go it might make the chatter louder.

Mogwi · Nov 30, 2015

DaMorgs said:
There's an option in SOUNDS to get all sounds to the same level - I believe it's the NIGHT setting. Give that a go it might make the chatter louder.

Yeah but I think playing in solo wit would be more realistic

It could he turned off as there's that option in the Audio . It shows some in the first horizons video with the cobra going in to land

Ian Phillips · Nov 30, 2015

Closing this necro.