EB: Voicemod Preview

[bovi]

First of all, I am somewhat amused by your EB project managing. It somehow exactly captures the way we do this inside EBH...

Hey, that yellow can't hold a candle to my brilliant blue. And the green is all wrong and bright. Clearly he has poor management skills.

Just kidding . Great minds think alike .

[GodEmperorLeto]

I read this post and prompty wet my pants.

This is awesome. It is full of win and God.

[antisocialmunky]

You guys are doing more for a mod than many companies put into the span of SEVERAL games.

[Tellos Athenaios]

hi everyone, long time player/lurker, first time poster.

And welcome at the ORG!

[agua]

why thank you, tellos.

If anyone on the sound team want to bs about audio stuff, I'm always game.

[I Am Herenow]

First of all, I am somewhat amused by your EB project managing. It somehow exactly captures the way we do this inside EBH...

Secondly, you can just about forget accents. It's difficult enough already to get some Americans with about zero knowledge of the language pronouncing the standard Attic clause correctly.

Fair 'nuf - so the different sounds for Ptolemaioi, Koinon Hellenion etc. aren't their actual accents, they're just different people's voices? Not that that's a bad thing by the way.

No, it's more the way how we want to use some code characteristics to our benefit.

Aww, I wanted insane speeches!

[Foot]

Fair 'nuf - so the different sounds for Ptolemaioi, Koinon Hellenion etc. aren't their actual accents, they're just different people's voices? Not that that's a bad thing by the way.

There were two different people who worked on the old greek voicemod, but its the same sounds for each faction, we didn't give one person to one faction and the other to another. The difference your hearing is all in your head. The same will go for the new one, there will be different people, but the voicemod will be the same for all greek speaking factions.

Foot

[Shigawire]

Let me correct the list to what we're doing. And yes, one of my oldest WIP lists of the voicemod (back when I was in RTR) was made using this exact color scheme.
I changed the legend for Orange btw, since having gotten to the Translation threshold is the most crucial part. K-Celtic IS Gallic. What I meant was that the REAL Casse would have spoken a dialect, very similar to Belgic, which was a dialect of Gallic. So Gallic is ideal. I also added the other languages under Punic.

Key: Completed Translations done Work has not started

• Aedui - Gallic
• Arche Seleukeia - Greek
• Arverni - Gallic
• Baktria - Greek
• Casse - Gallic (P-Celtic and Q-Celtic for some units)
• Epeiros - Greek
• Getai - ? (Greek as placeholder)
• Hayasdan - Armenian (preliminary work started, but nothing substantial)
• Karthadastim - Punic (Gallic, Greek, Latin for some units, and a little Q-Celtic and/or Lusitanian)
• Koinon Hellenon - Greek
• Lusotannan - Lusitanian
• Makedonia - Greek
• Pahlava - Pahlavi
• Pontos - Greek
• Ptolemaioi - Greek
• Romani - Latin
• Saba - Sabean
• Saka - mix of Khotanese Saka and Pashton
• Sauromatae - Ossetic [Iron dialect]
• Sweboz - Proto-Germanic (work started, but translations not finished)
• Eleutheroi - All of the above

Getai is still going to use Greek as a placeholder until we get anywhere with that..

[I Am Herenow]

Cheers

[Tellos Athenaios]

Aww, I wanted insane speeches!

Who says nothing insane could not happen. This is EB!!!
Anyhow, I am not onto translating that you ate all the enemies' honey and that now they are very angry with you, but -luckily- that you can count upon the Moon People

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Actually not so insane after all: see this list. You can easily find this site again by going to the EB website; clicking "Links" and scrolling down till you see "Celtic Tribes of Europe". Found here.

to aid you in the struggle. But then again: why on god's green earth did you do THAT?!

[kambiz]

[*]Pontos - Greek

Pontos using greek voices ?!?!?! I thought they would own a unique voices !?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Individual units might respond in their native language (Galatians, Persians, etc.), but since we can have language change over the course of the game, we are confident that using Greek is the best choice for them. It was the lingua franca of the Pontic empire and became the "official" language of it, even if it wasn't the most common language you'd hear among their officers in the first few years of our game.

[Foot]

Pontos using greek voices ?!?!?! I thought they would own a unique voices !?

Like what? They were Hellenophiles. The rulers would speak greek and persian (old persian of course), but greek is a better choice.

Foot

[abou]

Ahem... philhellenes.

[Krusader]

Like what? They were Hellenophiles. The rulers would speak greek and persian (old persian of course), but greek is a better choice.

Foot

Indeed it is philhellenes!

You know the punishment Foot.

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[Foot]

Aw man.

Goddamnit.

Foot

[Subedei]

Hi EB team....You guys are working hard...RESPECT!!!!

I am currently playing EB 0.81 in the German version, as I have the German version of RTW.....So my question is: Will I be able to install this voice mod? I would love to.....I am fed up with the German version....Subedei

[bovi]

Yes, you should be able to. The sound files are new, and are referenced in game files that are not translated.

[Subedei]

Yes, you should be able to. The sound files are new, and are referenced in game files that are not translated.

This is fantastic news bovi ...thanks for the quick answer....I am a very happy Subedei now....

[blacksnail]

Agua, I'll ask the AU Team this week when I stop by to do take selection. I'll see if I can get a technical answer for you.

[FalkyMrsWilliams]

Well! The Greek voicemod is completed! I'm impacient for hear it. Where can I download it?

I'm very interested in ancient languages. And you make the reconstruction of the ancient world languages! I can't wait to hear the proto-germanic, or the lusotannan, or the sabaean...

I think this mod recreates better the history, with its historical factions with their units, buildings and languages than other mod I have seen. It seems like a different game from RTW.

If you, any day would make an official game and would work for a game development company, I'm sure you will be covered by gold!

[bovi]

The greek voicemod available at this time is found in EB 0.81aV2. Check our webpages to download if you haven't already. If you meant the new one with battle speeches, keep in mind that this is a preview, not release document.

[agua]

thanks blacksnail, I appreciate it.

[PSYCHO V]

Nice work guys. Imho, Shiga has already qualified for Sainthood after his endeavours with the Gallic voice mod.


my2bob

[Christianus]

Did you drop out the old Greek mood? I think to remember that there actually was a greek from Epeiros who made it? Now you use americans instead?

Edit: Nothing bad about americans, but it probably sounds a lot better with a greek voice for greek sound anyway...

[Foot]

Did you drop out the old Greek mood? I think to remember that there actually was a greek from Epeiros who made it? Now you use americans instead?

Edit: Nothing bad about americans, but it probably sounds a lot better with a greek voice for greek sound anyway...

Well we either have professional actors in a professional recording studio being shortlisted by a regular greek national so only the best sounding stuff gets through, or we could have a regular greek national on his personal mic. Which sounds better? We chose the former. Crazy, huh?

Foot

[Bootsiuv]

Man, I really can't believe the amount of work that has gone into this project. I have never seen a modification of a game that actually "hired" five voice actors and used a real studio....friggin crazy. You guys just continue to blow everyone away.

Thanks for creating the best mod for any game ever made.

Bootsiuv

[blacksnail]

Did you drop out the old Greek mood? I think to remember that there actually was a greek from Epeiros who made it? Now you use americans instead?

There are six Greek-speaking factions. There was one original Greek voicemod. We created five additional Greek voicemods to go along with this, for a total of six.

[I Am Herenow]

There were two different people who worked on the old greek voicemod, but its the same sounds for each faction, we didn't give one person to one faction and the other to another. The difference your hearing is all in your head. The same will go for the new one, there will be different people, but the voicemod will be the same for all greek speaking factions.

Foot

There are six Greek-speaking factions. There was one original Greek voicemod. We created five additional Greek voicemods to go along with this, for a total of six.

So will there be one (very detailed) voicemod or six individual ones?!

[blacksnail]

Each Greek-speaking faction in the Western and Eastern Greek cultures (Epeiros/Koinon Hellenon/Makedonia and Baktria/Seleukeia/Ptolemaioi) will "talk with its own voice" on the battlefield. The script was identical for all six factions, so the actual phrases are identical, but the person who says them will be different for each faction.

Does that make sense?