Entry 4 - New Lotus

[[DE]George]

Hi everyone,

 

A lot of you already know that we have been wanting to update the sound of the Lotus for quite a while now.  Currently there are about 3-4 different versions of her in the game (depending on who you ask).  We have developed a brand new sound for her that is applied at run-time in the game engine that will give her a unique and dynamic flavour.  However, this necessitates us re-recording all her lines.

 

We just wanted to keep you all up-to-date with the progress, and I am happy to report that we have re-recorded almost all of her lines so far (over 300!).  Next step is for us to edit them, then we have to hook them all up in the engine in place of the old lines.

 

We are also going to be looking at all those nasty bugs you have been reporting... like the "It's the Grineer" when there are no Grineer around and referring to planets as "ships", etc...

 

Watch this space and we will let you know when the new lines have been edited and are going into the engine.

[Darkmoone1]

Cool beans.

[Archistopheles]

Thanks George. Give Rebecca Lotus a cookie for all the hard work!

[Zara]

Awesome, hope to see it soon ;)

[PsychedelicSnake]

Glad to hear we'll be getting them in the (hopefully near) future.

 

However... Valley Girl Lotus will always have a place in my heart <3.

Edited November 26, 2013 by PsychedelicSnake

[88th_Phantom]

Yay! nice work.

[Lumireaver]

Can you do one of those fill in the blank/mad libs style things where one line can be filled by multiple variables?

[Skynin]

Easier to say that there is more Lotus than one. She can't be on the phone whole day, her sisters helping sometimes (just to explain, why there is so much different voices) :D

[Rajko]

Awesome!  Thanks for the update.

[modded]

So pumped!

[NetSlayer]

Also what about lines like... here is the assassination target... when encountering mining machines...

Ash: *Not very lively for a target*

And something's wrong there's a heavy unit approaching. 

In some ways you probably don't want Captain obvious or someone that nags you. But more provides informed warnings. 

i.e. "1 target down" (out of 2 cap targets) is more helpful to the team than "Don't lose that target".

Also detecting ice after we've "detected" ice for more than a minute is obsolete. >.<


sorrryy!!!1 >.<

Edited November 26, 2013 by NetSlayer

[Rowbut]

"Look what our Tenno found they could not have done this without you"

 

*4000 Credits*

 

 

 

Yay lets hope this counts as a *fix* for her dialog!

[Letter13]

a unique and dynamic flavour

 

Pumpkin Spice Lotus confirmed.

[KriLL3]

Any plans for improving the context relevance of the lines? a lot of the lines don't make sense, mentions ships while on planetary outpost etc, needs ship/outpost/planet/tower/gas platform/whatever variables I guess to the relevant lines.

Edited November 26, 2013 by KriLL3

[DavidSPD]

Yeah I can agree that having Lotus nag us with non-essential info is kind of annoying. Saying "there's a heavy unit approaching" is vague for starters, but she also says it too often. "Heavy Napalm" would help more. "A large number of heavies are incoming, watch out" helps us keep an eye out.

 

"It's the Grineer" is (I know I'm gonna get **** for this) but it's pointless to say when you're on a Grineer ship or zone controlled by Grineer. We know there's Grineer. We're in a Grineer controlled sector. We chose to fight the Grineer. We don't need Lotus to tell us "It's the Grineer"...

 

More specific info about actual threats or objectives would help. Less frequency of the same lines being repeated. A lot of work, but multiple (at least two or three) variations of the same line to keep it fresh and not make us want to mute Lotus after a couple days of playing. 

 

Sorry Rebecca. 

Edited November 26, 2013 by DavidSPD

[KriLL3]

DavidSPD: only time "it's the grineer" is useful in missions with more than one faction and they're not the advertised faction.

[Mak_Gohae]

Can we get an "Original Sounds" sound pack to the original English speaking Grineer and some old gun sounds?

We wouldn't care about the quality so you dont need record them again.

[EganMC]

Pile the pain on by getting Rebecca to name every single Grandmaster and having her say each name when you click the button at the main planetary lobby. Fwahaha!

Love the new updates, appreciate the effort, keep up the good work.

[CloudPies]

Maybe having lotus tell us the weak points of bosses? Clues like: you won't be able to damage krill much when his shield generator is still functional. Or: Ruk is heavily armored, but his extensive weaponry and modifications need to cool off, strike then!

Would give a bit of insight as to how to beat bosses for newbies for one, and make her more helpful than just background noise.

[[DE]Amadeus]

We should have all the versions of Lotus rap-battle each other for supremacy because reasons

Edited November 26, 2013 by AmadeusReborn

[DavidSPD]

DavidSPD: only time "it's the grineer" is useful in missions with more than one faction and they're not the advertised faction.

 

That's what I just said...

[Sixty5]

Needs more "It's the Grineer"

[letir]

We are also going to be looking at all those nasty bugs you have been reporting... like the "It's the Grineer" when there are no Grineer around and referring to planets as "ships", etc...

You can't just remove her catch phrase! "It's the Grineer!"

[avinity8]

can i kill Lotus? please? i have reasons.

- Lmao

[Relkin]

But.....what the heck will we do when it's NOT the grineer D: