Voice Over: What Alerts Do You Want To Hear?

Yeah, that were also a nice thing.

That would be... SO .... AWESOME!

I demand Uber to hire John Patrick Lowrie to do the lines for those alerts!

Will it be robot or female voice?

I find that if it's used for "Units under attack" and other common encounters the voice over would get very annoying very quickly. "Nuclear launch detected" and "Halley complete" sound good to me though.

Assuming this is John Patrick Lowrie:

"You have been.... ANNIHILATED"

- Commander is under attack (with variations: under attack by land, under attack from orbit).
- Your units are being attacked.
- Enemy commander detected/if not the commander specifically, a general detection of enemy forces)
- Nuke is ready to launch.
- Firing anti-nukes.
- Energy drained.
- Metal drained.
- Planetary annihilation imminent! (aka planet/asteroid moving, possible variation in the future when asteroids are in the game)

Also, the points I missed but which Zaphod said.

To add to this (I like all these):
Your Commander has sustained critical damage. (upon dropping below 50% health)
Your Halley is ready, Commander. (or maybe just one for when all the halleys are ready)
Planet/asteroid ready to be launched.
Hostile Nuclear Weapon Detected. (When a launched nuke enters your vision. This will especially help Zaphod, who has serious issues seeing nukes.)

Wasn't John Patrick Lowrie being the announcer one of the selling points ?

- Minor hostile forces detected (for small groups of 1-5)
- Hostile enemy forces detected (for a decent size group of 6-25)
- Warning! A large enemy force has been detected (for a large group of 26+)

my problem is that a vanguard drop of 3 wouldn't really be a "minor hostile force". so something in the lines of the amount of enemies approaching your base.

Badabadeebadabadeebadeeba!
(+sing)

"Need more lumber!"

Oh... that's another game... oh, well...

"Running low on energy/metal"
"Insufficient energy/metal!"

• Enemy spotted (for first contact with that colour)
• Ready to annihilate (nuke ready: though frankly a better UI for nukes would be preferable)
• Anti-nuke firing
• Anti-nuke depleted
• Commander under attack
• Commander is at 50% health
• Commander is at 25% health
• Alien life discovered (first contact with a colour on another planet)
• Transport has arrived (Astraeus enters orbit)
• Teleporter awaiting connection (Teleporter built)
• You have been... ANNIHILATED.
• [colour] has been... ANNIHILATED.
• Your factory stands idle.

I don't want voice work that duplicates what the current visual UI is doing. I don't need it to tell me my storage is full, I can see that. Nor depleted. That kind of thing is likely to annoy the hell out of most people as they'll hear it all the time. The UI shows me halleys so I don't need that.

If John is doing the voice I demand a video of him ripping open his shirt on the victory screen and fully buttoned on defeat, though I'm still hoping for Ellen doing GladOS Though in that instance these announcements are way too dry

"Kenetic Energy Weapond detected"

"YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS!"

I think you guys will be better at prioritizing what should and shouldn't be said than I would, however some level of customization would be nice.

Wait, so is this a temporary computer-generated voice? Or is this going to be John Patrick Lowrie's voice with some audio-editing magic to make him sound all robotic and junk?

Well, either way, I'M HYPED AS a person who is very hyped for something.

I'd like to mention that it's probably best we get a CG or placeholder voice before they have the final voices recorded. Wouldn't want an oversight to lead to a lack of a useful voice alert, and the best way to ensure that doesn't happen is to test it out first

That's a good point.

Really, the best time for a voice-over from Mr. Patrick Lowrie would be once we have an intro movie for the game so he can narrate it.
(Assuming they're going to do an intro movie, I hope they do.)

I recommend temporary versions voiced by Brad, all of which end in "dude" or "brah".

Also, secret voiceover by Brad when you have over 300 bots on the field

"Go get them little dudes."