9 replies to this topic

[NimoStar]

Well, some women play MWO and it's always jarring to see them having to use the male voiced "Negative", "Affirvative", "Help", "Target spotted", and so on.

Plus in battletech canon, female hero mechwarriors are as common as male ones.

This would be a small option in "General options"; for women (or anyone really) to be able to change their ingame comm voice to a female ones.

Just recording some lines, really, and it woudn't even add 5 mb to a patch considering these are all a few seconds lenght in low quality audio.

Also it would help the game gain more "accolades" for trying to be more "Inclusive" :V

But really, I feel this somewhat discriminates women players by only having male voices in comms (The only female voice is the computer and we all know what unflattering name it is given in the lore :V)

Though I myself am not a woman, I would surely believe they have a right to use such a simple feature.

Edited by NimoStar, 07 May 2018 - 06:50 PM.

[Shadilay]

ill just leave this here

[Lily of Thrace]

Personally, I'd be willing to pay a small amount of MC for a female command wheel voice, or even custom voice packs that everyone could hear.

[D V Devnull]

I'll SUPPORT this. At least then MWO's voice packs would be getting closer to being as good as TeamSpeak.

Although, I wonder if PGI maintained this separation either out of simplicity or discernability?

~D. V. "would be good to have... just don't know some details, perhaps..." Devnull

[B L O O D W I T C H]

Lily of Thrace, on 08 May 2018 - 04:27 AM, said:

Personally, I'd be willing to pay a small amount of MC for a female command wheel voice, or even custom voice packs that everyone could hear.

Mc for custom voice packs? yea.
For a female voice tho, no. That would be unfair.

[catsonmeth]

More pilot customization in general would be good. I've always thought it'd be neat to be able to record your own lines for the comm wheel, but obviously that would be problematic. Choice of voices would go a long way.

[Will9761]

I wouldn’t mind having something like this. The only thing we have close to this is Haven Kendrick’s voice mod.

[JRcam4643]

Yeah sounds like a good idea.

[Vanefica]

Yes I would love a female voice option! I get called "dude" all the time as it is :/ No big deal I guess, but I've been play MW games since I was like 5, sharing the keyboard and joystick with my twin brother on our dinosaur of a computer in like 1995.

An added bonus would be making a decidedly female pilot. The pilots are already kind of skinny looking dudes, but something a littler more feminine as an option would be great.

I would hate to have to pay for female options (see: Pink Tax), but I would be willing to contribute real money to fund the work required!

[Leidulfr]

Vanefica, on 11 May 2018 - 06:22 AM, said:

Yes I would love a female voice option! I get called "dude" all the time as it is :/ No big deal I guess, but I've been play MW games since I was like 5, sharing the keyboard and joystick with my twin brother on our dinosaur of a computer in like 1995.

An added bonus would be making a decidedly female pilot. The pilots are already kind of skinny looking dudes, but something a littler more feminine as an option would be great.

I would hate to have to pay for female options (see: Pink Tax), but I would be willing to contribute real money to fund the work required!

The Pink Tax isn't real. You can buy the same exact things any male can buy for the exact same price. Fact.

And, if a female voice option was available for MC, how would that be a Pink Tax? Males would have to spend the same amount of MC to grab the female voice option if they wanted it just the same.

Also, how do you know the pilot is male? The pilot is in a flight suit and you cannot see the face or genitals, and even if you could, nowadays, that doesn't matter, because anyone can claim to be of any gender, race, species, or object. Why are you then instead arguing for a typically female looking pilot option? With that, the next thread that'd show up would be of someone complaining that the female pilot option looks typically female, with clearly visible breasts, etc.

I can't believe this thread is real.

I feel specifically targeted and discriminated against because the computer voice is a female and I have no option to change it (outside of disabling it, which I do, as well as with the comms wheel, because hearing "affirmative" and "negative" every five seconds is obnoxious and all too common).

Actually I don't feel discriminated against, especially not purposefully, because I'm not absurdly, unfathomably ridiculous.

I showed this suggestion to my wife; she found it "offensive" that OP apparently thinks women are so fragile and special-needs that they'd actually feel like something as non-issue as what gender is voicing a few lines in a video game is necessary to control. And, to assume that women needed such an option when they hadn't brought it up themselves, but, now that you've put it out there, according to a few of them here, apparently it is an issue and they're victims of discrimination--it's laughable.

If there's a suggestion out there where a dude is complaining that we need PGI to actually spend money and time implementing a male voice option for the targeting computer (when you can already just mod it in yourself very quickly), I'd tell them they were equally as ridiculous. Who're you to even say the comm's voice is male? Are we going to ask them to spend time and money implementing dog barks as an option to? I'm sure my dog would feel very oppressed to know that there's no option to hear "affirmative" in dog...

Edited by Leidulfr, 11 May 2018 - 04:18 PM.