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Originally posted by Martyr:

The Brits have some odd soundfiles in CMAK. When they take cover you hear a Sergeant shouting "Make yourselves invisible!" It's like the X-Men or something.

BF made a game attempt at getting the Brit sound files right, the example you quote being believable English idiomatic expression, but, I think, actually failed to capture the vernacular of the British squaddy.

Cries of, "Medic" would, as has been noted elsewhere, have been totally alien to the British soldier and there are other examples. All in all the language is much too clean to be believable and almost toally lacking in the Hindi and Arabic words that did, and still do, make up so much of the squaddies vocabulary. On top of which there are the marked class differences in speech between the commissioned officers ('Ruperts') and the ORs which are also completely absent from the game.

I am not complaining, you understand, and I can appreciate why the situation has come about, but as the subject came up I thought it worth a mention.

Cheers

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Originally posted by Michael Emrys:

Wasn't Soddy responsible for some of that? It would be in character.

;)

Michael

Not that time round, although rumours have it that my posh English accent is in huge demand for CM:X2's 2007 incarnation - CM:TFOCAT - Combat Mission - Toffs Fight Over Champagne And Truffles.
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