Choosing a voice for the extra character

[Philippe_at_bay]

Quality voice-acting was always one of the distinguishing features of Jagged Alliance.

One of the nice things about Jagged Alliance 2 was that you could pick one of three voices for your extra character. The voice didn't always exactly fit the character, but you could sort of get it into the right ballpark.

In my first attempt at playing JA 3 I came up with an extra character from Senegal (name: Khady Diallo, nickname: Meuf,) and started playing, only to discover to my horror that she had an American white middle class accent. A Senegalese or Cameroun accent would have been too much to hope for, but I could have role-played around a conventional French female accent. Pretending that she had gone to school in the States is a bit of a stretch.

I'm a bit discouraged about the accent though. Is there any chance that the designers can find the budget to pay voice-actors for a few more voice sets that mesh a little better with the character images provided ?

[Feagh]

A bit off-topic, but I generally consider voice acting a bit over-the-top in this game. I mean, some of the mercs sound absolutely unrealistic, some lines are good, but some are on the verge of idiocy. For example I totally hated "hello, talking computer" from Kalyna when I first hired her and generally how she expresses herself. Come on, real mercs wouldn't talk like a kid! :)
On the other hand, I absolutely love Fox's references to sex because these really fit her style! This is where they hit the mark for me.

Another example about the accent thing: Omryn is obviously voiced by a Russian speaker, has a real accent and even uses some Russian words here and there. The actor who voices Igor, on the other hand, makes him deliberately cartoonish as those guys who spoke invented Russian in 90s movies.
I know, I know, you cannot hire an authentic actor for each merc...

It's not a problem for me, and I think it was a deliberate move by the developers to make them sound funny, but some images just do not fit the voices and the things their voices say.

[SumFatGai]

You gotta take it with a grain of salt.
Remember JA3 is set in the year 2001, shortly after the events of JA2 Arapulco. Majority of the world haven't been on the internet, Google Search started 2006, and you were probably still using Netscape, Yahoo, Hotmail email clients back then.

Kalyna is Ukrainian. Apparently in 2001 they only had 1.24% internet penetration rate Hardly the IT services powerhouse of today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Ukraine
But agreed though, her voice is kinda annoying, just marginally better than Livewire. Maybe it's deliberate by devs ... there's a reason they are cheap.