BF2S Forums Whats the point of the nonenglish voices??

Mean_Green_Bean wrote:

I hate playing as MEC or Chinese because all i hear is BLAH BLAH BLAH, Jihad, blah blah.I dont understand what people are saying, why cant they speak english???
And whats the point of "The enemy is in control, work harder soilders!" and the other dumb auto messages, none of the players said it and it just adds to the blah blah for MEC and Chinese.

well dont complain just tick "english only" in your options.

load the game up click options and its under the audio sub menu i think.

I love the diffrent sounds, if I play Mec and I hear Grenade!!! then I know its the other team trowing those little eggs.

Well you see there are some people who actually understand this becuse it's not jibberish. There are other languages besides english, and I also enjoy it becuse it adds some reality to the game. Also they never say "jihad".

I think I wouldn't play BF2 if the chinese or mec were saying things in English, it kinda takes away all credibility. And, as already mentioned above, it's very useful if the enemy speaks a different language as it gives him away.

Nothing beats the feeling of hearing a USMC player just around the corner say "How about some help over here" and then pumping him full of lead as you come around the corner.

Here's some help for ya, buddy

Personally, I want a compromise. having the different voices helps a lot during the gameplay. As said before, if you are on MEC and you hear "Grenade!" you know what's coming. however, even after playing this game for so long I have not come to understand the other languages (plus with SF there are more).

I would like all the voices to be English, but the foreign teams should ahve an appropriate accent. This would give both teams the same advantages. Heck, they should have the game in several major languages with each team having the appropriate accents for those poeple who do not speak English.

Well at the same time when you hear that all BLAH BLAH and Jihad, blah blah you see same in english on your screen (there's all messages) so it's easy to learn what everything mean and those voices are one reason why I really love play with MEC (I love that Pumbula, or what ever it is ) and Chinese.

Mean_Green_Bean wrote:

I hate playing as MEC or Chinese because all i hear is BLAH BLAH BLAH, Jihad, blah blah.I dont understand what people are saying, why cant they speak english???
And whats the point of "The enemy is in control, work harder soilders!" and the other dumb auto messages, none of the players said it and it just adds to the blah blah for MEC and Chinese.

The enemy is in control work harder soldiers is not an auto message...Im pretty sure that the commander can choose messages to say to individual squads such as "you're the finest squad ive ever laid eyes on" and stuff like that.

Its so arabs and chinese people can understand and play along, do moch jihads and reign terror on the infidels..... good training for some up and coming mission....

The new russian voices sound kind of girly.

The auto messages let you know when you've hit certain waypoints in the game - like, for instance, your team is getting f'ed in the a' and youre down to 40 tickets, a voice will come on the radio saying "We're running low on re-enforcements" this is just to let you know that, if you haven't been watching the ticket counters, you should get your ass in gear.

Yea, to the point, being Russian, I found quite quaint to play SF for SpetsNaz — they did a good job of voicings, even adding some jist by using non-conventional phrases at times. Hope they did just a good job for other languages as well; English for Amers and SAS is good too, of course. I like the SAS English better.

So, when you play SN versus rebels maps, it is really confusing for everyone say the same in the same language (more over, I can understand it perfectly ), so you really have to be on your toes and “don’t trust nobody”.

There’s couple miscues though. They mapped some sounds wrong, so sometimes when you spot an enemy infantry, the sound is “Vizhu vertolyot”, which actually means “I see helicopter”. Need to contact a tech support on that.

And I hate the UAV sounds. The female voice is unnatural, like it was some rural Ukrainian accent, and completely out of place. Not that this accent could be uncommon in our Army, but seemed the woman doing VO didn’t know what the fudge she was talking about. Considering the Ukrainian population in Canada, I guess they just hired someone from the street.

Hard to explain, but it is familiar feeling. I’m in Boise, Idaho now, and there’s decent amount of Ukrainians or Southern Russians (with similar accent) here, but I’m always uncomfortable talking with them here with my Moscow accent. I’m fine talking with my family, or with my friends on the phone, or even with the same very Ukrainians back in the home country, but here it is just unnatural. So the same feeling is in the game.

P. S. What really amuses me is that how when making games, publishers manage to get the different voices and phrases right (for the most part), but Hollywood blockbusters with their multi-million dollar budgets and their millions of viewers, almost never do, as if they don’t care. Yea, so long as any Russian in the movie sounds like Drago (played by Scandinavian, mind you), then it’s okay.

Last edited by theUg (2005-12-10 11:03:47)