Just realised laughing is now disabled in versus

[Cream Tea]

This actually sucks. What was the point in doing this? I think this update is now more of a downdate.

[Bibby Bibbins]

This is what happens when Valve lets a bunch of literally whos to force their half baked mod pack on the game.

You will also notice that there is a painfully long cooldown between the voicelines that DO work.

[mersk]

PlayerDeath, PlayerTaunt, and PlayerLaugh have been disabled in VS, yes. Apparently it was done to combat trolling/spamming. Personally I don't care about the death scream, it doesn't really add anything valuable. But PlayerLaugh does, I agree. It adds to the enjoyment of the game. I contacted Jaiz earlier today and asked about it, and he said he would bring the issue of disabled PlayerLaugh up in their next meeting. Let's hope it gets fixed.

[Bibby Bibbins]

Originally posted by mersk:

PlayerDeath, PlayerTaunt, and PlayerLaugh have been disabled in VS, yes. Apparently it was done to combat trolling/spamming. Personally I don't care about the death scream, it doesn't really add anything valuable. But PlayerLaugh does, I agree. It adds to the enjoyment of the game. I contacted Jaiz earlier today and asked about it, and he said he would bring the issue of disabled PlayerLaugh up in their next meeting. Let's hope it gets fixed.

This should never have been their call to begin with; this was never an issue that needed to be fixed. Who the hell are they to "fix" what they want against the community they say they represent? It wouldn't be nearly as bad if this was an OPTIONAL MOD.

[Cream Tea]

Originally posted by Mr. Chef:

This is what happens when Valve lets a bunch of literally whos to force their half baked mod pack on the game.

You will also notice that there is a painfully long cooldown between the voicelines that DO work. :bummer:

Oh yeah I noticed that too. You used to be able to do voice lines rapidly if you timed it right.

[Cream Tea]

Originally posted by mersk:

PlayerDeath, PlayerTaunt, and PlayerLaugh have been disabled in VS, yes. Apparently it was done to combat trolling/spamming. Personally I don't care about the death scream, it doesn't really add anything valuable. But PlayerLaugh does, I agree. It adds to the enjoyment of the game. I contacted Jaiz earlier today and asked about it, and he said he would bring the issue of disabled PlayerLaugh up in their next meeting. Let's hope it gets fixed.

Don't get me wrong I love most of the update. The last stand being ported, the old smoker model in l4d1 maps and the extra survival maps. But I don't remember anybody asking for laugh to be disabled.

[mersk]

Originally posted by Cream Tea:

Don't get me wrong I love most of the update. The last stand being ported, the old smoker model in l4d1 maps and the extra survival maps. But I don't remember anybody asking for laugh to be disabled.

Originally posted by Mr. Chef:

This should never have been their call to begin with; this was never an issue that needed to be fixed. Who the hell are they to "fix" what they want against the community they say they represent? It wouldn't be nearly as bad if this was an OPTIONAL MOD.

And I agree with both of you, it should never have been touched. That's why I contacted him, because I really want it back - at least PlayerLaugh. That's the most important one to me.

[Death is Coming]

Why not have that as a toggleable option in the game options?

[Cream Tea]

Originally posted by Mr. Chef:

at least PlayerLaugh. That's the most important one to me.

I see Taunt is disabled too which is dumb. It's not like you are going to be taunting the bots in campaign the whole point of taunt is to taunt other users especially in versus.

[Flariz]

Originally posted by Silent Hell:

Why not have that as a toggleable option in the game options?

Should have been a toggleable option, along with an option for mods on/off, and maybe also have Casual or Competitive labels while we are at it, it won’t hurt to have a little more customization I say.

[Cream Tea]

Originally posted by Flariz:

Should have been a toggleable option, along with an option for mods on/off, and maybe also have Casual or Competitive labels while we are at it, it won’t hurt to have a little more customization I say.

I don't think it should ever be toggleable. If somebody is so weak they can't handle life they can join another game or kick me.

[TM Clerical]

Originally posted by Cream Tea:

Originally posted by Flariz:

Should have been a toggleable option, along with an option for mods on/off, and maybe also have Casual or Competitive labels while we are at it, it won’t hurt to have a little more customization I say.

I don't think it should ever be toggleable. If somebody is so weak they can't handle life they can join another game or kick me.

If it's vs they can't kick the other team, I think having an option to mute specific players characters is the best option.

[shoes]

I think they actually removed some of the vocalizer voice lines too. Some of the old ones are not there anymore.

[Evilsod]

Originally posted by Cream Tea:

Originally posted by Flariz:

Should have been a toggleable option, along with an option for mods on/off, and maybe also have Casual or Competitive labels while we are at it, it won’t hurt to have a little more customization I say.

I don't think it should ever be toggleable. If somebody is so weak they can't handle life they can join another game or kick me.

Yes, having an immature manchild spamming laugh in my ear is "being weak at life". It's not just that it rapidly becomes annoying and is impossible to ignore in a game so heavily reliant on audio cues.

The logic you trolls use never fails to astound me.

[Cream Tea]

Originally posted by Evilsod:

Yes, having an immature manchild spamming laugh in my ear is "being weak at life". It's not just that it rapidly becomes annoying and is impossible to ignore in a game so heavily reliant on audio cues.

The logic you trolls use never fails to astound me.

Just play a private game with your snowflake friends no need to ruin it for everybody else.

[DnaK]

Every single bit of vocalizer can be abused in some way. It's dumb to try to stop a SMALL percentage of players abusing it by removing it entirely from most of us who don't abuse it.

Bring back laugh and taunt.