VoiceAttack Profile for Helldivers 2

[TheSolitaryOwl]

Hello fellow divers!

I use VoiceAttack for Helldivers 2 to assist with calling in Strategems, and I thought I'd share my profile in the hopes that others might find it useful/easy to use. This profile includes commands for all strategems in the game, including mission specific strategems such as the hellbomb.

Google Drive download link[drive.google.com]

Instructions:

As far as set up goes, simply leave the strategem key binding to the default, left control. For the strategem arrow codes, re-assign those to the arrow keys, as that is what this profile uses. This allows you to keep running while VA calls in your strategem. However, if you'd like my profile to use WASD instead, it is easily modifiable in the profile. Edit the profile, make sure you are in category view mode, go down to Input, and change the arrow key bindings there.

Currently, there is a 0.125 second pause in between each keypress. If you would prefer the codes to be input faster, open the Profile Setup command, and you will find a command which assigns a decimal value to the variable "pause_length." Simply change the value being assigned to that variable.

This profile will not listen to anything you say unless you start your command with "Destroyer..." because you are requesting strategems from your orbital destroyer. I have set up my voice commands to be pretty flexible in how you request them. Please refer to the .html file in my google drive download to see a list of all possible things you can say.

The basic command format is like this:

Say you want to request the auto cannon support weapon. You could say "Destroyer, requesting autocannon." Or you could say "Destroyer, I need my autocannon." Or you could say "Destroyer send down an auto cannon." And so on.

Once the profile recognizes a command, it will hold down left control to open your strategem menu, input the code, and then release left control.

NOTE: Because VA is listening for the trigger word "Destroyer," you need to make sure you leave a momentary pause before your command if you were talking just prior to the command, such as with your squad mates. VA needs a clear beginning to your speech for it to recognize the trigger word.

If anyone is interested in trying my profile out, please leave any feedback you have! I'd love to improve the profile if I can.

[sithlordaj]

I'll give it a shot. VA is awesome.

[sithlordaj]

I had issues, but I'm not sure it's your profile. I think I need to redo my voice training.

Looking at what you got though, here's my initial feedback:
* I think I will be changing the strategem arrow keys back to what they were and seeing if I can set voice attack to use controller input to do the arrows. This should let me input commands myself or call them in... assuming the game lets me mix controls like that.
* would be nice to have some text to speech feedback. Maybe I missed it, but I didnt see any. You can totally make that help menu voiced which is great for those of us not using a second monitor. You can probably set it up to be optional too as not everyone likes text to speech.
* again, maybe I missed this, and maybe it's part of the HD2 experience, but some things having a confirmation would be good. Requesting ammo is relatively safe at all times, whereas a carpet bomb is not.
* having multiple ways to call each strategem would be better. Best scenario would be to "read in" your strategem loadout at the start so that you can use a call sign or something (ie "Bravo"). You can always do any command the long way and mission specific arent generally that time sensitive (in my experience, but im not a vet yet).
* besides calling in by saying "destroyer", a few options including the name of your ship would be cool.

Once I get things working correctly and a better microphone, I'll try making these changes myself and send you what I got. Just, no time promises.

[sithlordaj]

Ok, everything was working great yesterday.
I guess the confirmation isnt solely necessary? I was under the impression that it would auto throw the strategem. I did have an... "incident" where VA misheard me and performed an orbital precision strike on my location instead of one of the mining objectives. But overall, it worked really well, and the confirmation isnt necessary.

Im also not sure I'll be able to implement my idea of using controller input for the strategem arrows... VA can deal with controller input, but I wasnt seeing a way to do output; I thought it worked both ways.

I think my other ideas could work, but it will take some time to implement and test.