Voice-acted Distress Call Encounter - when!?

CMDR_Raikkonen

CMDR_Raikkonen
I just dropped in a distress call, and found some poor chap needing repairs. It was all voice acted and awesome. Poor fella sounded proper exasperated.

When did this sneak in to the game?

When will other encounters be voiced acted instead of just text based chat, greenhorn?
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
I can't wait for the soon to be announced Kumo Burger expansion with fully acted voices.

"Why are you putting a bap around my head, CMDR?"

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Rainbro

Rainbro
They came with Beyond Chapter 4 back in 2018. It's not a surprise this is obscure - only a few types of USS got updated to make use of these "Scenarios".

CZs are the most obvious use, but they're also available at megaships/installations (if you can figure out what states make them appear), Combat Aftermath Detected (I think someone asks you to scan a black box?) and Convoy Dispersal Pattern (a pirate raid on a convoy, but only if the signal source is Threat 2)
 

Kira Goto

Kira Goto
I think I encountered one of these when I started up my alt, too. Had someone ask me to recover some kind of data from a wrecked ship(an FDL in that case) when I reached the signal source after getting curious about it...

... but then I was in a completely unengineered Eagle when the game dropped a Deadly Conda on my head(and I didn't even have a lot of combat rank on it back then). Which I wasn't having, so I got out of there.
 

Shurimal

Shurimal
CMDR_Raikkonen said:
I wish more things were voice acted. Like NPC pirate encounters etc. It would make it scarier if could hear them screaming at you haha.

Or some NPC security chatter when they scan you etc.
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I think there was a 3rd party app that used text-to-speech to do just that, but its name is escaping me.
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
Rainbro said:
They came with Beyond Chapter 4 back in 2018. It's not a surprise this is obscure - only a few types of USS got updated to make use of these "Scenarios".

CZs are the most obvious use, but they're also available at megaships/installations (if you can figure out what states make them appear), Combat Aftermath Detected (I think someone asks you to scan a black box?) and Convoy Dispersal Pattern (a pirate raid on a convoy, but only if the signal source is Threat 2)
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This one.

Scenarios were meant to be the future of procedural content in the game. They were never really iterated on beyond that initial release.
 

Garix

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The problem as I see it with Voice Acting in games like Elite:
1st time: WOW OMG That's amazing
2nd time: That's still really cool
3rd time: OK OK already. I'm coming.
4th time: Will you please stop whingeing, I said I was coming
5th time: Please shut up
6th time: If you don't shut up I'll kill you myself
7th time+: DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
Jmanis said:
This one.

Scenarios were meant to be the future of procedural content in the game. They were never really iterated on beyond that initial release.
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FD do have a sense of irony though- when I was hard core murderizing I found that if you hung around after the deed for a few minutes sometimes you would get peace protestors in sidewinders chanting slogans (written)- something like "hay ho, hay ho, peace is the way to go" or something like that.

This amused me no end because they too belonged to the faction I was attacking.....
 

Shurimal

Shurimal
Rubbernuke said:
peace protestors in sidewinders chanting slogans (written)- something like "hay ho, hay ho, peace is the way to go" or something like that.

This amused me no end because they too belonged to the faction I was attacking.....
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I take it that in the end they of course got the peace they called for.

Just not in the way they hoped for🙃
 
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