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On the AI voices - I think there's an argument for AI in the ping callouts. I don't need a real VA to say "Door" or "Loading Bay" or "I have a - Can of Tuna". Using AI in these callouts makes adding them easier and quicker for new items added to the game. Nobody is going to complain about these callouts, they're purely functional and for the most part pings are an accessibility feature and break the language barrier too, especially for Europe where mic use has always been lower in games.
The characters though are dogshit. The traders should be using real voiceovers. They sound SO BAD. Even the reddit community agrees with this so you know it's definitely bad.
The game is genuinely good besides this shit. I hate it. It actually makes me angry every time I have to hear the traders.
That's mostly Bricky's take too and I tend to agree.
That's actually the studio's claim and if their claims of paying the VA's for their voice and further paying royalties to them is true, alongside their claim that it is only used for callouts, than I agree, I don't think it's much of an issue. The full on use on characters tho it's just shitty. If it produced actually good results like they did with machine learning for the robots movements, then at the very least they could have an argument for it, but it would still be weird.
I don't think it's only used for callouts. The Traders are 100% ai and they're really very very bad. Lance is ok because he's an android, he's also oddly the one with the most personality out of all of them. The others are dead fish.
I'm still annoyed about callouts because they're not specific enough. "Door" is fucking useless. It should say "Closed Door" and "Open Door" based on context.
Yeah that's what I meant with it being shitty if used on the characters. He didn't show examples of that in the video only of other voice-lines he thought was rather weird and off-tune, but I'll take your word for it. I'll take a look on youtube later to see how bad the traders voices are lol.
They're the same as what he showed. Those voices are the traders but that's a couple of the things they say in-game over comms. It's just as stilted and bad outside of those ones.
Celeste is the worst.