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[Daxxx]

I think my wife is finally tired of hearing "New Target Acquired" all night long when I play MWO.
She asked, "Isn't there a way to change what she says over and over?" "At least they should let wives or girlfriends (MechWidows as she says) record it in their own voice " "That way we don't have to listen to another woman in the other room!"

Personally, I think it would be great if we could add custom .wav files to change the notifications.

Any thoughts on this?

[Burktross]

Yes!

[9erRed]

Greetings all,

Well technically, all the 'Betty Bites' are only played on the local client.
- But modifying, changing, altering any of these, breaks the agreement you have with PGI to play this game.
- Even with 'testing' a changed file, any other client (in spectator view mode) will still hear there file, not yours.

There has been a few threads directed to PGI about this concern,
- specifically about having a listed checkbox window of warnings and dialogue items that could be or can be 'unchecked' to not play that specific sound.
- This would require quite a few new pages and code items to be designed and linked to 'events' within the game.
(as an example Elite Dangerous has just this item included in the sound settings, an extensive scrolling page with nearly every sound that is played for an 'event')

This game is still listed as Beta, so we have quite a bit of design to go towards a 'Full Release' and a complete clients interface.

Aim True and Run Cool,
9erRed

Edited by 9erRed, 05 February 2015 - 06:16 PM.

[Savage Sweets]

I find your wife's comments and coining of the term "MechWidows" to be quite hilarious, though, in a way, I can see where she's coming from.

Still, funny how one can be jealous of even a disembodied voice.

On topic: I do approve of your suggestion, so you have my vote.

Edited by Savage Sweets, 05 February 2015 - 09:50 PM.

[Lily from animove]

yeah would be cool if we could mod our own betty.

Would require PGi to allow us this, and maybe adjust checkroutines in case they check some files for specific validity.

Edited by Lily from animove, 06 February 2015 - 05:39 AM.

[Thor Sten]

I want GLaDOS

Edited by Thor Sten, 06 February 2015 - 10:08 AM.

[MarineTech]

OR... And I'm just throwing this out there.

You could get headphones.

Just saying.

It's probably going to be a big benefit to you when they institute voice chat in the game to avoid your wife hearing what the pugs think about their teammates' performances.

Edited by MarineTech, 06 February 2015 - 12:24 PM.

[HumpingBunny]

YES! Custom sounds for bitching betty would be AWESOME! some serious fun could be had with that. For example: HEY! missiles comin' in motha f***a!

[Lily from animove]

Thor Sten, on 06 February 2015 - 10:08 AM, said:

I want GLaDOS

spaaaaaace (when JJ's actually are at 25% in a light mech)

[WonderSparks]

I definitely want to be able to change Betty's voice clips!

Incoming missiles? "HIT THE DEEEEEECK!"
Target destroyed? "I GOT ONE, I GOT ONE!"
CT crit? "I'M GUNNA DIIEEEEEEEEE!"

_{lol Sorry, I get extremely hyper in front of a microphone. XD}

[Daxxx]

MarineTech, on 06 February 2015 - 12:22 PM, said:

OR... And I'm just throwing this out there.

You could get headphones.

Just saying.

It's probably going to be a big benefit to you when they institute voice chat in the game to avoid your wife hearing what the pugs think about their teammates' performances.

I'm surprised it took this long to come up with the headphone solution. and yes, during TeamSpeak missions the head phones go on. But when you play this game as much as I do, a bit of change would be nice...

[Savage Sweets]

Not to mention headphones begin to hurt after extended use. Haven't found a headset that doesn't induce discomfort after a few hours.

Carrying on with custom sound desires, it'd be pretty cool to have CL4P-TP as a custom voice set.

[Bespoke Cheese Cake]

Some different voices would be interesting, but remember that Betty is there to provide important info to the pilot. Not be your personal in-mech entertainment system.

[HARDKOR]

While being able to use custom packs would be ideal, it's more plausible for them to hire out voice actors to do up voice packs and sell them to us. This would be profitable, as they could sell tons of these for 1000MC unlocks and doing it would cost a couple hundred dollars each(get voice impersonators for maximum profit)

(simulated)Voices I would buy...

Samuel L Jackson (you got missiles, ************!)
Shakespear
Ren and/or Stimpy
Beavis and/or Butthead
Phone sex girl
Stoned Mexican
Any of the Star Trek voices
Casey Casum
****, keep em coming and I'll probably buy a bunch.

[HumpingBunny]

HARDKOR, on 06 February 2015 - 03:29 PM, said:

While being able to use custom packs would be ideal, it's more plausible for them to hire out voice actors to do up voice packs and sell them to us. This would be profitable, as they could sell tons of these for 1000MC unlocks and doing it would cost a couple hundred dollars each(get voice impersonators for maximum profit)

(simulated)Voices I would buy...

Samuel L Jackson (you got missiles, ************!)
Shakespear
Ren and/or Stimpy
Beavis and/or Butthead
Phone sex girl
Stoned Mexican
Any of the Star Trek voices
Casey Casum
****, keep em coming and I'll probably buy a bunch.

YES!! I agree, and I'd drop some serious cash on this, specifically Samuel L Jackson for the incoming missile warning.

[Lily from animove]

HARDKOR, on 06 February 2015 - 03:29 PM, said:

Phone sex girl

can you hear her screamign "wooah incoming!!!" as missile warning xD

but people may replace betty with soem more shorter and informational warnings. The missile incoming warning of betty is a bit too long, if you would use this as an indicator instead of the flashing writing you would mostly act too late.

[Daxxx]

Instead of Target Destroyed.. I like Dr McCoy saying He's Dead, Jim.

[MikeBend]

The day we get allowed to customize sounds, i will replace Betty with Warhammer Orcs

[SnagaDance]

Thor Sten, on 06 February 2015 - 10:08 AM, said:

I want GLaDOS

Yes! Instead of '(new) target acquired', she could say 'Please come over here. I've got delicious cake for you.'

[pbiggz]

The Implications of this are amazing