Voice Over: What Alerts Do You Want To Hear?

Whatever you do, please make John Patrick Lowrie the voice actor for everything.
Epic voice combined with nostalgia - this would be beyond awesome.

@brianpurkiss
Exactly, I must keep attention on the stuff that the enemy makes, do scouting or building radars, not the alerts should tell me that.
When I miss something important from my opponent, then I must be more attentive next time.

Someone's been playing unreal tournament? Also you missed a stage... 'rampage' goes in before godlike

You meant AI-Like, right?

With orbital Radar / power to see - "Enemy Commander detected in orbit" when moving from planet to planet would help a great deal as a warning.

If you're going to get technical...

Double Kill! Triple kill! Multi kill! ULTRA kill! M-M-M-Monster kill!
Killing spree! Rampage! Dominating! Unstoppable! Godlike!

Probably wouldn't fit in PA's current theme, but for those 10 player 150-radius games...

In an utterly relaxed, female voice, entirely soothing and very routine.


All systems offline. Critical failure imminent.

So Ellen McLain, John Patrick Lowrie's wife and voice of GLaDOS?

Err....yes. Essentially, the kind of voice that tells you that the nuclear warhead is about to land on your head, chance of survival - 0%, as if that's not a very bad thing.



Actually, I guess at that point, it isn't.

mech powerup detected!!

also can we has the killer instinct 3 announcer for a killcounter on nukes? ... if it destroys a whole bunch "godlike kill"
if a nuke gets countered " NU-NU-NU-NUKEBREAKEREEEER!!!!! " xD
god that announcer is so hype in this game

Whatever the alerts are, please make them configurable so that for each possible alert we can configure

- if there's an audio alert for that event
- if there's a visual alert for that event

Also, please do it in such a way that mods can easily replace the sounds, and allow for different sounds for each event.

"Cool! Phasers?"
"Im sorry sir, no"

(Pssst... It's a MechWarrior reference)

Warning, :-
Commander under attack! (Commander under attack)
Fabrication unit under attack!! (Fabber under attack)
Fabrication unit lost!! (Fabber Lost)
Unit under attack! (All other units that are under attack)
Unit Lost!! (When any unit is destroyed)
Defensive Structure under attack! (Missile tower, laser turrets or artillery structures under attack)
Defensive Structure Lost!! (Missile tower, laser turrets or artillery structures lost)
Base Under Attack!! ( Non-defensive structure is under attack. factories and Eco)
Building Lost!! ( Non-defensive structure is lost. factories and Eco)
Enemy Detected!! (When an enemy units enters radar range)
Incoming Kinetic Energy Weapon Attack!! (Incoming planet warning!!)


Enemy Unit destroyed!! (The destruction of an opposing players unit)
Enemy Building Destroyed!! (The destruction of an opposing players Non-defensive buildings)
Enemy Defensive Structure Destroyed!! (The destruction of an opposing players Missile tower, laser turrets or artillery structures)

You suck. (sometimes we need a reminder)

then go play mortal kombat against shao khan

We also need a warning whenever an enemy unit fires on one of our structures. Every time. No cooldown. It should also have a separate follow-up to state whether the shot landed. It should then talk **** about their mother.

please give us nuclear silo detected. Without persistent icons, seeing them in a base covered in FOW is a bitch.

also any attempt at building them would paint a bullseye on them for other players, encouraging unit attacks that might have otherwise been held off. More destruction, more action, more fun. Win for everyone.

The idea of having to micromanage intel goes totally against the scale concept of the game. You'll still have to do that anyway once your opponent has decent AA up around their base. Just don't force me to do it every... few... seconds.

Sorry if this was already said, I just skimmed the rest of the comments.

Control Group # ... under attack / finished construction / arrived at destination.

Thanks for all the feedback so far, guys.