Loving the Update! How About Female Voice/Models?

[Jackal]

As I said, the latest update is awesome, and you guys have gone above and beyond with what you've done with the game. One thing that still breaks my immersion are the couple female operators on my roster who have male bodies and voices.

Will this be changed at some point?

If not, I guess I'll try to figure out how to make sprites and record my girlfriend and learn to mod it in!

[boop]

realistically a female in body armor wouldn't look much different than a male.

here's a video showing the female IOTV, it feels better for a female wearer but doesn't actually look much different IOTV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrMDCQI5gzU

[Jackal]

I understand, but for example, a pointman model for the female looks odd to me, especially in the arms, not to say there aren't muscular women, but a slightly 'slighter' frame would make more sense to me, anatomically. Women don't have broad shoulders like that, generally speaking.

[boop]

it really wouldn't since having a "slighter" frame would presumably mean the officer would not be able to fulfill the same physical requirements as a male officer, which is a no-go

[Jackal]

It wouldn't 'presume' anything, I am 150 pounds and can lift more, run faster, etc. than my friend who has broader shoulders, taller, and weighs 210. Frame has nothing to do with strength or physical attributes, in this particular sense.

[James009]

I think you should forget about doing the graphics (as thats a LOT more difficult to do and implement) and focus on doing SFX because we do need those.

[Jalomies]

Actually what difference would a female voice, and character (observed from birds eye view) make for this game. I think there is way more important aspects to look at, such as having the already existing male charaters to be able to keep a some kind of formation and synced pace for example.

[Jackal]

Talking about porn in the capacity of this suggestion post is.. entirely unneccessary, get out. But I agree, the models aren't as big of a deal as a female operator with a male voice.

[Major Fret]

I'd rather female hostage modes than female SWAT models. Would be great to see more than just the two hostage types in the game (certainly no deal breaker though).

[Jackal]

I agree, female hostages would be nice, too. The reason I brought up female operators is because they are already in the game and have male voices.

[Red Panda]

Additional code would need to be added by the devs to allow independant voice sfx.

[Herodotus]

Something to consider, anyway. Plus, female crooks and hostages. Just makes the game a bit more intersting. Then again, they don't have these differences in "Breach & Clear"...at all.

[Graphic]

Not worried about the models that much, but there should be female voices to go with the portraits.

[cry-havoc ( Fermi Paradox dev )]

I agree that female voices for the female swat members would make things much better.
For me it breaks the immersion if the female swat members announces targets etc in this deep male voice.

Also more female portraits would be really cool.

[Vulpe Nebuna]

The thing with the portraits is that ALL portraits in the game are either 1) generic, masked guys or 2) contributors to the game, people that have purchased the $60 Stuff of Legends package of our game or supported us in another remarkable way, or won some contest. The portrait is based on their picture.

As there are no female personas to satisfy that criteria, we have no female portraits other than generic masked ones.

Maybe in the future we'll do our wives or something, we'll see.

[T-Bone Biggins]

Originally posted by Vulpe Nebuna:

Maybe in the future we'll do our wives or something, we'll see.

Sorry reading through this thread this line just jumped out at me. Alone, it is funny. Just saying it was along the lines of something I heard my grandpa utter.

But realistically female SWAT officers? Eh......boobs in kevlar have an appeal but I don't think there are really many of them out there. Also hearing a woman die or scream in pain from getting shot even in a game does have a psychological effect on most men. Well, any woman screaming in any form has a psychological effect and almost always a bad one lol. This is just me, and it is odd, but games like XCom and UFO: Aftermath/Aftershock I would try randomly rolling for new soldiers to get an all-male team. I'm not a bigot, my mind just doesn't get any immersion into a game when there are women on a combat team. It's weird and happened since before I was a teenager, I'd just fire the women and fill the team with men. No stat difference, they are prettier to look at, just didn't want them in combat. I also had a friend that played XCom who did the same exact thing, and we both don't know why. Anyone else notice/do that?