John1966 Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Love the voices in CMAK (especially the British NCOs). However, it suddenly struck me that you can be a bit "gamey" with this (whether you want to or not). I only speak English (and was notoriously bad at languages at school). If I'm playing CM (any version) and I see enemy troops running about (or taking cover), I don't normally have any concrete info on their actual morale state. For all I know they could be in good order. Of course, when I'm playing the axis nations, I can usually understand what the enemy is saying even though I haven't got a clue what my own men are on about. When you hear Brits shouting "run away, run away" or "we're surrounded" then it's obvious that their panicing. This seems to give me an unfair advantage that I don't get when I'm playing a side that actually speak english themselves (because I'd know their morale state anyway and I don't know what the enemy are talking about). I wouldn't like to turn the voices off but I'd greatly apperciate it if anyone knows what some of the non-english (Russian included) CM phrases that we hear so often actually mean... Any cunning linguists out there? (Sorry, James Bond joke) Fenetic spellings would be helpful (especially for Russian!) Oh, and has anyone else noticed that the South Africans sound suspicously Australian? (And shouldn't they speak Afrikaans anyway?) :confused: Cheers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmatt Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 While we wanted the South Africans to have their own voice set, availability of qualified native voice actors and space on the CD forced us to drop that idea. Same thing with Canadians. Madmatt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Axe_ Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Originally posted by Madmatt: Same thing with Canadians. :mad: I speak Canadian fine, eh? I don't know what you're on aboot. :mad: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSpkr Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Originally posted by Madmatt: While we wanted the South Africans to have their own voice set, availability of qualified native voice actors and space on the CD forced us to drop that idea. Same thing with Canadians. Madmatt I guess you had trouble finding enough Canucks able to read? In all seriousness, when the next version comes out (hopefully on DVD as that would give room for lots of neat stuff) I hope BFC seriously looks at giving players the option to have a particular side speak in either their native language or in English. It would be nice to know what my Italians were saying. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Axe_ Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Originally posted by MrSpkr: I guess you had trouble finding enough Canucks able to read? Hardy har har. Beat up on your northern cousins day? Watch out or we'll send a cold front through with more snow than you can melt with a full bladder. :mad: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WineCape Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Originally posted by Madmatt: While we wanted the South Africans to have their own voice set, availability of qualified native voice actors and space on the CD forced us to drop that idea. Same thing with Canadians. Madmatt Yup, my voice in Afrikaans was not up to scratch, being my own lingo and all. Sorry folks! Come to think of it, I couldn't get the voice recording software to start, never mind quality voice overs. I failed miserably in the eyes of the Mad one. Sincerely, Charl Theron ----------------------------------------------------- </font>Grateful donateur to the drinking habits of Battlefront.com (“I am simultaneously embarrassed and proud to state for the record that only two bottles of your fine South African wines remain in my wine rack. The rest gave their lives honorably in the service of the construction of CMAK over the past several months.” -- Charles Moylan, 28 Nov. 2003)</font>Wine donation send to Fuerte for his PBEM HELPER, an excellent tool - it even lets you play 2 PBEM turns per e-mail exhange - if you play more than one PBEM at a time and have a Windows OS</font>Sponsor of the (now infamous) Invitational (Winner: Ari Maenpaa)</font>Sponsor of the 2 WineCape Tourneys (Fangorn’s Brazilian customs drank the wine prize up! + KiwiJoe)</font>Sponsor of the Nordic Championships in honor of Nabla (His scoring system revolutionized CM tourney play)</font>Rumblings of War, aka RoW tourney sponsor</font>RoW I winner:Wreck, RoW II co-winners:Ali, Kanonier Reichmann, Jon_L, RoW III co-winners: Deadly 88, Frunze, mPisi -- Download and play the RoW III Tournament Scenario Pack. </font>Thank You donation send to Manx (He used to run the “sexiest CMBO modsite on the net”)</font>Wine donation send to Boots & Tracks for their scenarios created specifically for RoW tournaments</font>Wine donation send to Gordon Molek for his CMMOS utility (Thereby making the installing of CM mods a breeze)</font>Wine donation send to Andrew Fox for his CM modding work</font>Wine donation send to Keith Miller @ Scenario Depot for his dedication in hosting CM scenarios</font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSpkr Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Originally posted by Axe2121: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by MrSpkr: I guess you had trouble finding enough Canucks able to read? Hardy har har. Beat up on your northern cousins day? Watch out or we'll send a cold front through with more snow than you can melt with a full bladder. :mad: </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnergoz Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 I think a search of the forum will find that others have posted a translation list in the past. It may also be in a text file on one of the fan sites. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M1A1TC Posted January 1, 2004 Share Posted January 1, 2004 If anyone needs help with russian, I could do it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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