The news post on the ql forum about the update had 15+ pages of comments, and now it has 6.

Whoops, deleted post. Whoops, user banned. Sureokay GG LOL.

Whoops, registration disabled.

Just to evade the SHITLOAD of insults. Faggots.

Whoops, two dorks messing with a mic spent 10 mins fooling around with some sampling and effects and did voiceover tests that fit the game better than this new homo-erotic sounding shit.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ijv9mtl0ul90gw/test-run-lol2.wav?dl=0

What now QL? Will do free VO pack(s), and use actual *effort*.

Surprisingly, I couldn't think it was possible to make worse than that, especially after knowing the minimal requirements you had to surpass.

But yeah, it definitely need some post-processing or energy in some cases (Holy Shit!, Denied!, etc) It is a little side because it feel like the actor didn't know the expectations for these VOs. Maybe he should have received some samples from various FPS of the original work from Quake 3 or 4.

Anyway, like I said, nothing is lost, everything can still be tweaked.
It also seems like some audio files got clipped before completly fading off. I thinks it happened on "Red Team Wins", Im unsure, maybe it was just me though.

I was miffed the first time I heard it, but now it's growing on me... ;0

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Well done you got the message on ql as well as everybody else, good job pointing this out

Don't strain your testes there, chap.

can i turn him off? please?... or make him sound like female?

Please bring the old announcer back...

This is the first change that made me want to uninstall QL.

this.

Try:

cg_rewardsVO "0"
cg_playTeamVO "0"

He will STILL have some godfucking disgusting lines with his corny fagvoice.

s_volume 0 is the only true solution.

lol

Yeah, lol.

maybe "Natalie Portman" in there somewhere would make you +vol?

Nah.

Dat capitalized first letter doe. Dat period doe. Dat brevity doe. Dat coolness doe.

Dat "dat doe" doe.

Borned to be awesome. >: ]

truf

they should keep this change for april fool's day

Quad Damage announcer makes me shiver

These updates are ass and you devs are killing QL.

If we get around 5 more voices, we won't even need casters anymore.

if +attack then rng
if rng =>1 play zoot_ohmagawd.ogg
if rng < 1 play zoot_ohmagawd.ogg anyway.

problem solved.

heard on irc that reflex will be hiring the announcer from Killer Instinct :O

again pls

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Yeah, I totally wanted excited voice too :(

This is what Syncerror thinks of the new voice announcer...

http://i.imgur.com/hJwS53V.jpg

This is what I think of SyncTerror and his friends...

http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/attac...ns_3_4.jpg

I don't get why the old announcer couldn't be included as an option without matching the medals. Who cares?

yes, please do this, or even just use the new VO for new medals only.

Exactly. And it'd be simple enough to make the new announcer the default option for new users so that they don't get confused by the two different voices, and let the others choose the mix of the two if that's what they prefer.

Can we get this VO please

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq2Glc7hudY&feature=youtu.be

It's awesome! :D

The current announcer sounds like the Honest Trailer voice, which I find hilarious XD

Nice vid. My only issue with cpm is it feels so good that I end up jumping around like an idiot and not shooting.

Then play CTF as an attacker ,-)

This as an option would be totally awesome.

That's hot!

I didn't hear current VO faggotry but I can't imagine anything worse than that.

That VO was done by Caryn "Hellchick" Law who I've been in touch with recently about Reflex stuff ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0fA_b3gF24&sns=em

The voice over guy is actually some alcoholic homeless local texan that lives in a make shift hut with a thatched roof made from tumble weeds. He does have an herb garden. Everyone needs a hobby.

Just like the homeless guy on chinese american idol, this guy had a voice of gold they just couldn't pass up,.
He's a rising star in the world of radio commercials. Locally he's known as the voice.

Now it all makes sense.

FYI it's Christopher Sabat
Vegeta / Piccolo - DBZ US
Batou -GitS:Arise US
Kitz Woermann - Attack on Titan US
Few things in Duke Nukem
Few things in Borderlands/Borderlands 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Sabat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j2mBle5_JM#t=165

Pretty sure it's a drunk guy.

Kuwabara

Anime dubs suck and so does this guy.

I hate dubs too tbh, but i still think what he's worked on is quite cool, and I like that it changes for the medals instead of the same all the time.

Anime in general is sissy. Why tone down quake with anime?

I will let this bs slide this time. But Sabat needs a hole and some shovels. And 2 buffed gangster willing to bury.

No fucking way.

They have really spend some money on this. Wow.

Vegeta what does the scouter say about his rail?

2 RAILZ... IMPRESSIVE~

fucking lol

Doesn't matter who he is at all. His voice doesn't suit Quake and if id chose such unfit candidate, then they wasted subscriber's money. Work on anime is actually a negative qualification, because anime is not badass.

Vegeta/Picolo? How can id screw good voice?!

They should make him do mannlier version of the voice.
Impressive, excelent, fight, countdown all sound rubbish to my ears. After hearing the same VO since 2000....this right now......no words to explain

Any sample of the new announcer?

its this guy right here

2 RAILZ... IMPRESSIVE ;-)

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yea, i guess i don't understand why this was changed - old announcer was so good, and there weren't issues with it. maybe it's because they wanted to add new clips but didn't have the old guy's voice?

it's so fucking cheesy duke nukem wannabe

noone will ever beat HoN announcers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TICjHjCUnbQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2BbaLbsQbA

We need that guy for quake get on it sync. That will bring more players.

Dude the original announcer is just perfect.
The badass one ain't bad either.

That ANNIHILATION gives me the chills.

lolololol yes, get Sammy L to do the QL announcements and i will pay extra for that VO pack.

Sounds like some douchebag teenager.

I'm a bit of an audio engineer....

and i only say that to sound smart.

I fuck around with fruity loops... so i'm going to fix the vo lol

Audio engineer...fruity loops? LOLOL :D

http://www.filedropper.com/newsounds

The chain I came up with earlier was more like eqing some 3-7khz out because that dude's voice is sibilant as hell then send that into a really tight 100% wet delay into 2 pitch shifters ( -3/-6 ).

Doesn't sound nearly as good as Xian because it doesn't have that " locked " feeling and because it still sounds like a bad Duke Nukem impression in the end.

wasn't much to work with lol.

i just eq'd a bit actually raised the mids, cut the base a bit and cut the highs at about 7-10 k range.

bit of reverb drum room style... then just [pitch shifting and a lil b it of time stretching for certain ones.

some sound a bit different cuz i used two reverb setting by accident lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZT-SphkLvQ

Meanwhile in Q3...

Oh god these are so good.

omg... walk into the portal... that gave me such a nostalgic feel of the first time i played quake3 omg DA FELL! :DDD

Eargasm.

Current homo pornographic waste of decibels is non-bearable, but hopefully with time some better VO's come.

Like...the old one.

HOOOLLLYYY SSSHIIITTTT!!!!!!!

Hooooolly shiiiiiit!!!

lol they actually hired someone for this? it sounds like they pulled someone in the offaice over to the sound room for an hour to do his best duke nukem impression. any yet that's what they did for the old sounds iirc and they were better.

Now you know why they never have money for real changes. They spend it on this trivial crap instead.

OMG LETS ALL FUCKIN CRY AND BITCH LIKE LITTLE BABIES OVER A FUCKING VOICE THAT WE CAN SIMPLY TURN OFF


WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOO IM 30 FUCKIN YEARS OLD AMD MISERABLE AND NEED TO BITCH ABOUT EVERY THING WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Just go back to your hide_behind_box_simulator: GO

quality post crybaby

WAHHHHHHHH I DONT KNOW HOW TO TURN OFF VOICE REWARDS FUCK YOU ID WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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T_T

CSGO is hundreds times more successful than Quake ever was.

Cpt. Irrelevant strikes again

I actually really like talking to you.

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YOUR COUNTRY NAME IS FITTING CAUSE UR A POOR THIRD WORLD PIECE OF SHIT DIRT COUNTRY YOU ALL MUST BE PRETTY HUNGARY HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

TEARS TEARS TEARS

BRB ENJOYING MY LOVELY NORTH AMERICAN MCONDALDS NERD REKT

How about giving a proper blowjob to your fellow muricans SyncTerror & sponge? You seem pretty adept at it. Mental capacity is the same, so you don't need to be worried about being looked down on.

On a sidenote, thank this country while fucking frozen bears out of desperation, that you can type out your stupidity and misery in life on a computer. Just for an example. If it were up to only you inbreds, we would still be living in the feudal age. Ah, wait, you didn't even have a country then. Tough luck, but it's not your fault.
Funny fact is that you probably never ever studied any books on world history either, rather using them as paperweight, but I'm seriously amazed that you can at least read somewhat. The standard of your compostion however, is still on a pre-school ghetto level, so you need to work on that a bit.
If it's only troll and not genuine retardness, it's the shittiest flaming I ever encountered. Either way, you lack quality and substance.

Also, eat your shitty McDonald's, you will die sooner and it's befitting for you anyways - same with these updates, which only disabled monkeys seem to enjoy.
Whoa, did you realize the meaning of this sophisticated sentence? I just compared you to a disabled monkey. Flower language at its best.

tl;dr: I prefer home cooking and pure Quake.


gg no re, CapsLock boy

I sense some shit talking on America. Troubling. Very Troubling. :O/

tl;dr

-north america has a better education system than any single european country

-europe is where inbreeding came from in the first place which is why most immigrants came over here

-also the fact that in our short time we grew up to be a bigger country than any european country

you seem to have a lot of facts wrong... must be that poor european education system haha communism.. russia... to many topics

tl;dr TEARS TEARS TEARS POVERTY

what?
http://www.edudemic.com/learning-curve-report-education/

This report takes a look at major factors in education, such as expenditure per student, GDP, graduation rates, etc.


i can look at how fast 3 apples in a basket turn rotten but is that the same as 50 apples in a fridge? use ya head

Well you can look at the OECD education rankings for performance as well
http://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/pisa-201...erview.pdf

The results are practically the same, just with a lot more of Asia higher up, but most EU countries are still above the US.


The US has the best Universities in the world, I'll give you that.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-u...ld-ranking

http://www.topuniversities.com/university-ran...se+search=

But so few actually get to go there, I hardly think it's fair to call the selective prime minority indicative of the entire 'education system'.

so many caps...did you go to school, or you've just forgotten how to express yourself clearly in writing?

Thank you

So I spent a while playing some CTF with bots just to listen to the VO for a while.

If I try to be as fair as possible, I would say that these are not terrible, but they are definitely not what I would consider to be classic Quake.

They seem like they would fit in better with a psuedo-realistic futurism FPS, rather than a balls-to-the-walls lovecraftian-satan baby; like it would fit in better with the UT2k4 voices, or Urban Terror, for example.

Someone in the other thread made a good point that QuakeLive is lacking a coherent theme - it's a mashup of the old satan Quake with Halo/Warsaw, whereas up to Quake3 the theme was fairly well defined.

It seems to me like changing the voices is in fact a step towards "solving" this problem, and personally I am not a fan as they are taking Quake one more step away from the dark elements that I loved.

This shit sounds gay, period.

WAHHHHHHHHHH CHANGE OH NO WAHHHHHHHHHHH

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get well soon lol

I am not a fan.

Please god put q3 voice in ql like in these days

http://youtu.be/g4SeNkIEUkk

Impressives are terrible, the new VO sounds like hes reading a book in a childrens book club. Also one of the impressives is so retarded, that it makes you think hes talking to a retard. .... Which he actually is sometimes tho \:D/

The new voice isn't horrible, I think some VOs are better than others (I'm speaking among the new ones).

Still, it lacks "balls" and probably some effects to make it as cool and profound as the old one.

I think some of them should be re-recorded. I don't have any problem with new voices and so on, but the guy should put more energy into this.

Not a catastrophe in the end, but I think id should consider re-recording some of them or all of them with other effects.

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I realy want the old one back..........

New announcer is okay. I woke up today, updated Quake, loaded map with bots and expected armageddon or something. It's ok.

It's the voice of a drunk bartender of a western movie, rotfl, gg id/shithesda

They will sell the classic announcer as a dlc.

and we'll all buy it

and that's why they don't care what anyone thinks about these changes. Don't buy into their gimmicks.

Already cancelled my sub

Alright, maybe a new announcer voice contest? :) Send your versions to youtube and we can vote for the best one :D

"Two rails. Impressive."

Thanks so much for explaining this to me id, everything makes sense now.

It's always given you a longer "explaining" sound clip the first time you get a medal in a match.

Also when someone is hitting you for some time, if you manage to shoot a rocket at him and kill him add this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPseOlTl7Dk

I sort of replied to this here:
http://www.esreality.com/post/2656874/re-sept...pid2656874

There's no action in his voice. He is way to calm! I miss QUAD DAMAAAGEE.

I thought everything went into slow mo when he said it, even my jump felt paused mid flight.

Ok i listened to all vo sounds in pak00 and the unbearable ones for me are:

- excellent
- impressive
- fight (this one expecially is gay)

The other ones are not that bad, but obviously i love the old voice so i'd like to choose even if there is no sounds for the new medals.

- fight (this one expecially is gay)

Couldn't agree more.
Instead of "FIGHT!" we get "fi iiiiiiiii whatever".

Most of the VO's sound as if he's being sarcastic. I think the guy is trolling us.

the crash trainer VO inside that pak sounds like heaven compared to it :s

i wish crash would do all the VO

while i welcome the midair reward it feels like the iconic quake identity is step by step dismantled. and man announcer sounds gey as fuck

So, instead of gibs, sexy dresses, pentagrams and devilish voices we now have censored cigars, hidden asses, sparks and this eunuch announcer.

Whats next, meadows, rainbows and unicorns?

Only a leggings wearing faggot would stay indifferent about this.

Just finished watching this video actually that talks about this subject, shit is being censored for no good reason. To please people who don't even care about gaming?

the new quake live theme in this vision:
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I would love to hear this guy in QL:



Shao Kahn <3

I just got the weirdes boner.

Thanks.

Someone on reddit did this:

https://soundcloud.com/formatnone/ql-announcer-vo

Needs speedup 1.5x

Muddy and still sounds a bit retardish.

They should get Tom Waits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9mhsW5aWJM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw2MjRcVO4g

k im done
bye guys was pleasure trolling you all

The whole idea is to have a mediocre announcer, then release good ones as DLC. If the default was the Q3, QL or a really good different one fewer players would buy the DLC.

RAMPAAAGEEEEE =D

Rumour says that last two shitty updates were implemented just to do a research on the community. They wanted to know what people think about it, before realising it on Steam ! Steam update will reverse all the shity changes and VO to the originals if they see people bitching about it too much.

Maybe there's some hope after all !

TBH this makes sens, I can't see any other explanation for these recent actions on QL, even ID guys aren't that moronic to just release the stream of poop on community like that ! I HOPE SO !

source?

Sorry, I can't tell more details. All I can say is that recent moves on QL were not stupid actions as all of us might think. It's a plan. Let's see how it will work out

dear god be praised you're not full of crap :_D

I bet they don't even know how to go back with the changes :D

Quake:Source confirmed.

Kapi

First impression is that I don't like the new announcer but I guess I can get used to it. Adding new rewards to the game is a smart move for the steam release imo.

Loadouts however are fucking awful and will ruin the game if it remains the standard way to play public FFA and TDM :/

Quake announcer should sound as if he just drank a pint of blood.
This guy sounds as if he's on morphine.
Or as the butler who's about to ask if you want sugar and cream with that "humiliation".

I LOVE THE ANNOUNCER

Specially the new rampage D:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwxjYFqP35A&t=26s

I knew already ^^

BY THE WAY HOW'S MY FRAG MOVIE GOING *wink wink*



no pressure okay

I hope to finish it soon, but I took a break 2 weeks ago due to a wolfcam bug (fixed though :D).

:O if you know how to edit/watch dm90 demos on it please tell me (I also may have some interesting material)

Send it, only way is to use the game itself though :(

nvm: http://www.esreality.com/post/2657324/n-a/#pid2657308 xD

1v1 Hen House m8

would be awesome if ql had voice chat :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cDhHZaWJnM
so good. funny when u see even q3 had 7 tiers, a game which didnt have the bitching whining elowhoring and faggotry of ql.
the sounds are also amazing, dont care if it's the same guy as ql, sounds so much more baller. in general the overall feel and atmosphere of q3 was so good, so magic. ql, in comparison, is like a kitch toy

Keel is a black man!?

Oh c'mon. Haven't you ever read q3 manual book?

I skipped Quake 3, I come from Quake 2

like worst announcer ever

Things went full jay.
With no offense to any jays.
Sorry but it's true.

QuakeIsDead

Best Announcer I've ever heard.

:D

http://esreality.com/post/2657437/who-s-runni...l-project/

WE NEED THIS REVARD when you eat direct rocket!



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DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that's cooller school.

Cooller should really do the VO's. Now imagine:

"Come to me baby"

"pfffffrrrrr"

"you need to choose situation"

Any videos available to hear it? Don't want to load ql anymore

Check the posts by krock and xgo : http://esreality.com/post/2656472/sept-11-ql-...pid2657285

Watch recent streams on twitch?

Imo this nerf arena conversion has gotta be some shitty plot to get ppl who want satan gore and rape buy doom4.

I believe they made it shit so people are more likely to buy voice packs later on. Faggots.

Every time I hear the new VO I feel like I have to take a shit. Swear to god.
I guess this thing is great if you're constipated. I suppose that's one useful thing about it.

I thought you where all just talking shit, till I heard it. Damn its bad! How far can you let the quality slip? WTF are they thinking? They have no pride in their work.

Bhehehehehehhhh, great joke of Carmack

quake now feels like playing candy crush with george takei as the announcer voice

George Takei would be way better!!

also, what the hell is that reptilian medal you get from time to time? lol

2pac for announcer !!!

rammstein VO pack for 10$ will be top seller maybe even in German language :D

Several points about that godawful faggot called "announcer".

1) VOICE. WTF? Who voices this dude? An aging hipster talking thru a Starbucks cup? The old announcer had weight. Jus a remainder, his voice was so gravelly and booming because he was supposed to be the judge of Arena Gods who announced the gladiators and renounced their extraordinary feats/pickups. Now we have twentysomething gay four-eyed nerd telling me about frags, revenges and other crap. It's simply hilarious.

2) MESSAGES.. Revenge? Combo kill? WTF? Who writes this stuff, angry teen? All we need is SOLID COPY RAMIREZ GET TO THE APC TANGOS IN SIGHT SOAP ATTACH THAT SPIE RIG. No shit, it's so CoD it hurts.


ID SOFTWARE. I HAVE A FREE IDEA FOR YOU.

Why didn't you think this thorough and amde an USEFUL change to announcer? if a player could CHOOSE the voice of announcer that would be sweet. Imagine hot babe announcer, or Tweety announcer. Or Gandalf announcer. Whatever. You could've made it fun. Now we have this...abomination.

who works at id????????????????????????
who makes this idiot shit?????????????????????
????????????????
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I want Hatsune Miku

Imagine Gandalfs VO

Gandalf should be a defender in CTF btw
YOU SHALL NOT PASS = flag denied

Fucking hate this change, please id consider a console option to use the old announcer.

Syncerror: Fight sound will be updated/replaced. We're just waiting for the replacement VO session to take place.

Thank god for that. Was getting worried that if they go steam tomorrow it means all the updates will remain unchanged.

[00:15] <randomguy657> So, sponge, is there any chance that we get old announcer as a switchable option?
[00:17] <@sponge> randomguy657: no the old voice works for a competing company now, isnt at id anymore

the only hope is to beg for update from current voice actor.

So because the guy doesn't work at id anymore, they can no longer use his VO's (that he did for q3) in qlive? Or is it that sponge cannot understand a rather simple question? If I didn't know better, I'd say sponge has got management material written all over him. Always responding to what they think you meant, and not what you actually said.

THIS

I actually asked about it, but did not include because I believe it was written somehwere in this thread as SyncError did answer the same.
[00:16] <@sponge> no, we didnt like the 4 versions of the old announcer and its now missing award sounds + a few new VOs we shortened

TBH I would take the "4 versions of the old announcer and its now missing award sounds" over the new one.

So what if revenge/midair wouldn't have a VO? Going back would be totally worth it regardless.

If anyone wonders, he is audio engineer at Oculus.

bet he does the VO for them now. if you put on your glasses:
"Welcome, to Occulus Rift!"

what a dumbass

Please, please, please, please, change the 'impressive' sound.

Íííimprèhsihve!

Everytime I play QL I feel like the announcer is seducing me.
Is that what the id Software wanted to achieve? A semi-gay announcer attempting to get laid wit every QL player?

He sounds like a 1990's voice over in a radio commercial for a for a failed soft drink targeted towards teens. Basically an older man trying to sound hip.

The voice in Quake should always sound like the devil. Anything else is gay.

If my future me is ever going to get used to this voice, imma rail the sh*t outta me. The bastard.
Come to think of it... I better quit playing QL now, because if I don't, I'm prolly going to be better than me in the future and get railed myself. Don't want that to happen of course pfff.
On the other hand, it's very likely that I'm an old sloppy fart by the time I get used to this voice, so I can beat me easily by then.
So imma continue playing QL with no worries whatsoever HAH!
This also states that I can even play QL when they let Emma Watson do the VO.
Hope they don't tho.

This is what you get for trying to make Quake a modern game.

A gay hipster announcing a porno movie.

Benicio Del Toro/ Mickey Rourke

When he says 'five frags left', at the 'five' it sounds like a bunch of jizz flew out of his mouth

new annoucer sounds like pussy boy