What the hell did he say? (Brit radio chatter)

Borsig · Post by **Borsig** » 2007-01-15 14:55

was playing birts for the first time this weekend and i hear over and over:

"enemy XXXXX spotted, over!"

It sounded like he was saying "corsines".

Huh?

Post by **bosco_** » 2007-01-15 15:06

Maybe "Enemy callsigns spotted"...?

Borsig · Post by **Borsig** » 2007-01-15 15:07

that must be it....

What is that, infantry?

never heard them called callsigns, lol crazy brits

KP · Post by KP » 2007-01-15 15:10

Well, how about "softskin vehicles"?

Lucid Nightmare · Post by **Lucid Nightmare** » 2007-01-15 15:13

starlight to this location?
Well, I'd prefer a medic to my location, but I guess a healthy does of starlight works too.

Borsig · Post by **Borsig** » 2007-01-15 15:13

at least that one makes sense, lol.

I like the brit commander's voice..

I get this mental image in my head of Montgomery when I hear him, all proper with a baton, etc. Either that or the prison officer from clockwork orange.

Starlight is for medics?

I thought they were saying starstrak and asking for AA missles, lol.

I swear I dont understand the relation of these terms the english use.

Wasteland · Post by **Wasteland** » 2007-01-15 15:17

Yes, I think it's callsigns. But I have English Radio Only turned on (I don't know how you guys can play MEC or PLA without it), and only played with Brit voices a couple times when I wanted to see what they sounded like.

Mekstizzle · Post by **Mekstizzle** » 2007-01-15 15:26

Even i think the words they use are ridiculous. Both in SF and PR. Just keep it normal lads. No fancy slang.

Clypp · Post by **Clypp** » 2007-01-15 15:27

I had English only for the first year I had BF2. It is really handy to know what people are saying but you lose the ability to detect enemies talking nearby.

This is why I suggested new voices for MEC and Chinese that speak English with a heavy Hollywood type accent. I still think that is a good idea.

Post by **Dunehunter** » 2007-01-15 16:12

It's a realism mod Clypp, not a Hollywood movie mod

Would be funny though.

Pantera · Post by **Pantera** » 2007-01-15 16:18

Keep it authentic i say.

And i also suggest that the "english VO only" option be disabled or broken so it dont work.

IRL you dont tick a little box and everyone speaks english

Post by **Mongolian_dude** » 2007-01-15 16:29

JP*wasteland.soldier wrote:Yes, I think it's callsigns. But I have English Radio Only turned on (I don't know how you guys can play MEC or PLA without it), and only played with Brit voices a couple times when I wanted to see what they sounded like.

because i can tell if a medic is reviving an enemy or foe. I can tell if an enemy is throwing a frag. I can tell if an enemy is ready to be jumped if he screams for a medic or not. I can hear enemy dropping ammo bags and search him out. I can hear an enemy spotting friendlies.
The list goes on. Beside, after a while you get a rough understanding of what they say by common practice.

I remember what the hell they are talking about when they say starlight because i remember getting fragged in SF and looking up at the starlight on nighmaps, calling for a 'starlight'.

Soft skin viechle makes sense, probly not what they say RL though.

Borsig wrote: I like the brit commander's voice..
I get this mental image in my head of Montgomery when I hear him

lol me too, berret and all. Dont forget that small but official tash.

...mongol...

Wasteland · Post by **Wasteland** » 2007-01-15 16:30

No Darth. IRL you'd speak the same language as your teammates.

If I need a medic, and call out "medic!", I'd like it if my teammates understood me. This is especially the case with the less used ones, like "need ammo" or "sniper spotted".

I think Clypp's idea is a damn good one. IRL, you'd both understand your comrades, *and* be able to pick out enemy comms taking place near you. His is a way to make that happen. Whether this is Hollywood or not, that's the only way to achieve the function language would play IRL.

Wasteland · Post by **Wasteland** » 2007-01-15 16:33

And mongol, I know what you mean about coming to understand what they say over time. But the thing that I find best about the english only is the spotted radio commands. There's several commands denoting a "question mark", so I find it usefull to just know the english ones. Helps me make quick TK-saving decisions.

As for picking out enemy comms, yes, it is a bit of a trade off. But if you hear radio commands nearby in english, and there's no teammates there on your minimap, you know what's up. And if it's faint (and not accompanied by a louder "radio" command), then you also know what's up.

Clypp · Post by **Clypp** » 2007-01-15 16:40

dunehunter wrote:It's a realism mod Clypp, not a Hollywood movie mod Would be funny though.

I think that understanding your teammates would be more realistic than having everyone you are fighting with speaking foreign. Just like the ammo packs, medic bags and shock paddles this will be a slightly unrealistic change for the sake of teamwork (and realism). With such a change radio chat spam can be greatly reduced.

I will understand that this is far from becoming a priority for the devs but it will be a nice thing to have and it will offer changes from vBF2 which are never a bad thing to set this mod apart.

Pantera · Post by **Pantera** » 2007-01-15 16:40

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I dont think any of you people are stupid, listen to what the other languages are saying and read the text, then youll get used to them, youll be speaking arabic

well you can understand it anyways

Its easy as hell and it adds to the realism, like i said, i dont think the Terrorists in Iraq are yelling at each other from rooftops in English with an American Accent....(thats what happens in PR if you enable english VO only, everyone speaks english with an american accent)....

Plus i am positive Insurgeants dont get 2 hour lessons a day to learn how to speak english with an american accent

, althought it would be nice to hear an Insurgent speak in english with that ME accent and not American

Post by **Mongolian_dude** » 2007-01-15 16:42

JP*wasteland.soldier wrote:And mongol, I know what you mean about coming to understand what they say over time. But the thing that I find best about the english only is the spotted radio commands. There's several commands denoting a "question mark", so I find it usefull to just know the english ones. Helps me make quick TK-saving decisions.

As for picking out enemy comms, yes, it is a bit of a trade off. But if you hear radio commands nearby in english, and there's no teammates there on your minimap, you know what's up. And if it's faint (and not accompanied by a louder "radio" command), then you also know what's up.

friendlies can often be obscured by minimap signs like the huge no.1 from the squad leader. You may blue on blue as a reslut.

Aslo, its Fking great for jungle/forest combat as you can get their distance and direction(if you have it up loud enough

)

...mongol...

Guerra norte · Post by **Guerra norte** » 2007-01-15 16:45

Well it makes it easy for me to tell when grenades are beeing throw by enemy soldiers, if you're US and hear "Qombola!" coming from the other side of the wall you're facing that means press B, yell grenade and get the fvck out of there.

Clypp · Post by **Clypp** » 2007-01-15 16:48

Darth.Skyline wrote:...

I dont think any of you people are stupid, listen to what the other languages are saying and read the text, then youll get used to them, youll be speaking arabic well you can understand it anyways

Not everyone is a language person. I have played this game since the release and I can't understand a phrase of the Chinese or Arabic languages. So if you are on my MEC team and calling for a pickup or ammo I will not know who whats what unless I read the scrolling text on the side. So you are screwed. If however you called for ammo with a Middle Eastern accent I can help you out.

There are many others who don't understand much more than a single phrase who will benefit from such a change as well. And I'm not "dumb" because I can't pick up Egyptian accented Arabic well, I'm an engineering student.

Guerra norte · Post by **Guerra norte** » 2007-01-15 16:58

Qombola fitarikhiy ha'i leyne!!!