Long War Voices Complete

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Author: Ayser

Last revision: 16 Jun at 23:24 UTC

File size: 102.93 MB

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Description:

tl;dr
This mod adds the various accented-english voices from the original Long War mod for Enemy Within

Overview
  • 20 new regional English voices (15 male, 5 female)
  • Individually adjustable volume for each voice via a config file
  • Support for normal soldiers and Reapers by default. Skirmishers and Templars must be enabled in the config.
  • Some of voices can randomly appear on normal soldiers
  • Cooked
  • Voices unaffected by attitudes
  • Support for events added in voice patcher, get the mod >here<.

This mod does not require Long War or WotC to use.

The following is a list of the voices that are in this mod.
Male Voices:
British English 1
British English 2
British English 3
Irish English 1
Irish English 2
Scottish English 1
Australian English 1
Australian English 2
Australian English 3
Dutch English 1
German English 1
Polish English 1
South African English 1
South African English 2
Singaporean English 1

Female Voices:
British English 1
Australian English 1
Swiss English 1
South African English 1
Malaysian English 1

Detailed Explanation

If you’ve seen my other legacy content mods, you know the deal at this point. Took the original voices and modified them to better suit XCOM 2’s voice events. If the soldier voice had a language in the base-game, it can randomly appear on soldiers.

Some of the voices in this mod were already included in Old War Heroes and Long War Voices. These voices are:
British Male 1
British Male 2
British Female 1
German Male 1
Polish Male 1
Singaporean Male 1
South African Male 1

They are redone here because:
1. So they can be cooked.
2. So you can get ALL the Long War voices in a single mod.
3. To add support for other actions including those in Voice Patcher.
4. The voices for British Female 1, Polish Male 1, Singaporean Male 1, and South African Male 1 only had a single voice line for each action in the original mod. Meaning the voices only used about ~15% of their actual line total. I think this is because the original creator only used lines from the first of the 15 WWise banks extracted from Long War. They probably did this because when you merge all the banks after extraction, there will be a ton of duplicates that you have to manually sort through for deletion, and I don’t blame them not for not taking the time to do this. Being the psycho that I am, I actually put in the hours to do this for each voice individually, so all the voices have the correct number of lines.

Please note, the majority of these voices were voiced by people with little to no voice acting experience and simply wanted to contribute regional voices to the popular mod that was Long War from EU. Temper your expectations for voice quality knowing this. Also, be respectful towards the VAs. They went out of their way to record a whole bunch of dialogue for a mod to a semi-niche game. Remember, if you don’t like a voice, you can simply not use it.

Also, something that should be mentioned is that the original creator of the Long War Voices mod (Plumse) took the time to ask permission from the original VAs before adding their voice to their mod. I didn’t. If any of the original VAs request me to remove their voice from this mod, I will do so.

On the flipside, if any of the original VAs want to record ADDITIONAL lines for this mod, that can be arranged.

Please report bugs. I only did like 30 minutes of testing.

Q&A (sort of)

What about the voices for Zhang, Annette, and Van Doorn from Old War Heroes?
Look >here< for Legacy Voices Redux.

more regional voices plz
Look >here< for CS:GO Non-American Voices.

What do you mean ‘British English’? Be specific.
In this context, ‘British’ is meant to describe an accent hailing from the island region of Great Britain, not Scottland or Ireland. I understand that ‘British’ is still a vague descriptor, as the region still has many different speech accents, but the specifics of the accent is up to the player to figure out. The games American voices have the same dilemma though, as the speech accents contained within the U.S. can arguably be even more varied than the UK. We don’t have any ‘Southern American English’ or ‘Old Western English’ distinctions (yet), you’re just expected to know when listening to the preview.
Also, remember that English is a language as well as a nationality. I felt having an option labelled ‘English English’ made far less sense than ‘British English’.
Additionally, this is exactly how they were labelled in the original Long War, and there was no reason for me to change it.

This depiction of my countries accent is racist.
This mod merely adds in the already-existing voices from the Long War mod back in 2015 while touching them up a bit to suit XCOM 2. If you have issues with any of them, take it up with Pavonis or the original VAs.

Credits

Robojumper for their voice script
Aquilio for their Voice Patcher mod
Plumse for their Long War Voices mod
ObelixDk for their Old War Heroes mod
Pavonis for Long War

British Male 1 voiced by Ian Dransfield
British Male 2 voiced by Ian Chisholm
British Male 3 voiced by Sean Lally
British Female 1 voiced by Jezdamayel Caster
Irish Male 1 voiced by Graydon Schlichter
Irish Male 2 voiced by Adam Miller
Scottish Male 1 voiced by Jordan Wistuba
Australian Male 1 voiced by Jamie Williamson
Australian Male 2 voiced be Michael Richardson
Australian Male 3 voiced by Russell Meyer
Australian Female 1 voiced by Bec Pelvay
Dutch Male 1 voiced by Benjamin Smit
German Male 1 voiced by Michael Berkolz
Polish Male 1 voiced by Jakub "Faleg" Janicki
Swiss Female 1 voiced by Eveline Frei
South African Male 1 voiced by Gerrit Aalbers
South African Male 2 voiced by Jurgen Delaere
South African Female 1 voiced by Louise Dumée
Singaporean Male 1 voiced by Justin Loke
Malaysian Female 1 voiced by Ping Teo