Death cries

posted on April 5th, 2010, 4:56 am

(just another random idea getting thrown out there)

What if ships had death cries? I.e. "All hand aband...", "Captain, shields are fa...ahhh!", etc Transmissions getting cut off, static, screams, etc)


(they'd kinda have to be low key to not get annoying...)

Just a thought to have it...

posted on April 5th, 2010, 4:59 am

Heh, I like it.  "Perhaps today is a good day to die!"

posted on April 5th, 2010, 5:17 am

its a nice idea, but it would get seriously noisy come battle-time. remember the bugs in v2.x with the dominion ships? they chattered on and on forever.

maybe if you limited it to one of every five or even ten ships, but otherwise it would just end in a cacophony.

posted on April 5th, 2010, 8:05 am

or maybe just ur selected ships

posted on April 5th, 2010, 8:26 am

Oh nice...
Give me more to grieve about! 

Well... it has to be limited... or it would get very bad but It is a nice Idea

posted on April 5th, 2010, 8:18 pm

A cool idea 

posted on April 5th, 2010, 8:24 pm

There was a similar Feature in Freespace.  I think it would be cool, but you would have to have the option of turning it off, cus it would get annoying after a while...

posted on April 6th, 2010, 3:26 am

I like background chatter the more the better

posted on April 6th, 2010, 4:59 am

If there was only a 5-10% chance of it happening, that wouldn't be so bad.  You'd hear it maybe once or twice a battle that way.  That way it wouldn't be too annoying.  Hopefully.  Fingers crossed.

posted on April 6th, 2010, 7:34 am

yep, we had some ideas about that, perhaps somewhere in the future

posted on April 6th, 2010, 10:11 pm

Sounds interesting. The selected ship sounds better, that's the one with the open comm.

posted on April 6th, 2010, 11:38 pm

i think this is done in bridge commander, with people screaming.. it got annoying though 


so please please please, if this happens also make an option to mute it, cuz i sometimes get tired of hearing them die

posted on April 7th, 2010, 12:16 am

Sounds interesting. The selected ship sounds better, that's the one with the open comm.

What if you had a fleet selected?

I agree with Arash, definitely make it mutable if possible

posted on April 7th, 2010, 12:27 am

What if you had a fleet selected?

It would be very noisy.... selecting fleets only gets 1 voice heard, so death probably should be done the same. I would prefer to hear a lot of them, like in First Contact.

posted on April 7th, 2010, 8:44 am

maybe an elite-exclusive 'ability'.  Just something to go along with what you're already yelling when that double-gold baby gets clipped riiiiiight in front of the repair yard by a wayward torpedo.