why are the adeptus speaking in an unknown language?

[Maxagaze]

just a question

[A_COOC]

If this is a lore question. Techpriest and those who belong to the Mechanicus in general prefer to speak in binary. Since to them it's the pure language of the machine.

[Maxagaze]

Originally posted by 🎀 A_COCO 🎀:

If this is a lore question. Techpriest and those who belong to the Mechanicus in general prefer to speak in binary. Since to them it's the pure language of the machine.

I really do not know a lot about techpriests, and it sounded strange when i realised that there are no voice actors when they speak. In fact only necrons make sense, and i was wondering if they skipped voice acting in order of economy or a matter of lore. Since the techpriests talk among each other, i suppose its the latter.

[jasonrodriguez]

That's binary, "machine-speak" or "Mechanicus-speak" as it's like in the Warhammer 40K lore.

The various Magos that give you missions also have their own personalities and these are dependent on how more machine they are than man, or their general dispositions.

Let's say a regular sentence is like: "The news says the weather would be good today. I would like to go out for a stroll."

- One might say: "A perfunctory glance at the dataslate reveals that there are no unusual meteorological phenomena today. I shall continue my cursory exploration."

- Another: "The Omnissiah blesses us with a bountiful opportunity to seek new knowledge outside of our environs."

- And, of course: [Observation] Temperature: 30C. Weather disturbance = <NULL> [Conclusion] Walking: Acceptable. Advice Caution Y/N = N.

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The reason why you might hear garbled, machine-like noises is because that's technically their way of speaking through their augmented neural or vocal implants.

[winnie]

Well, lorewise it has ben explained, and from techical point of view, that was way for devleopers to cut the costs, to not pay voice actors :-)

Plus intro vide has voice.

Resume: It's just ti not pay for vice acting, conveniently backed by lore.

[Sekhriat]

Originally posted by winnie:

Well, lorewise it has ben explained, and from techical point of view, that was way for devleopers to cut the costs, to not pay voice actors :-)

Plus intro vide has voice.

Resume: It's just ti not pay for vice acting, conveniently backed by lore.

Actually, here's the reason: https://steamcommunity.com/app/673880/discussions/0/3104564981100731824/

[Lamp]

According to lore that’s binary, or Lingua Technis, which is their native language that can only be spoken through vox implants and only understood through neuro/auditory implants, and they only speak high gothic when talking to a non-tech priest. Since the game revolves around them it just makes sense

[Maxagaze]

i don't know, but i kinda like this. Makes them more unique.

[[XeS]SuckMyShotgun]

It's a little disconcerting and even creepy that the enemies sound more human than your own characters do...

[Frosty]

Originally posted by XeSSuckMyShotgun:

It's a little disconcerting and even creepy that the enemies sound more human than your own characters do...

That's the whole joke about warhammer. It has these sort of ironic kind of dark humor in it all over. Techpriests thinking to shed their human body is to achieve perfection, fighting Necrons who have done this eons ago, and not seeing it as some kind of red flag on their path to "holyness." Necron Lords showing more flowery emotional vocabulary compared to the more human techpriests who have started to shun their emotions for a colder approach.

[Avenger93]

technicaly they should not even speak. When only among the mechanicus, the priests of mars only communicate through noospheric data bursts, not any form of physical audible speech. Binary cant is emited in religious ceremonies or in significant incantations, but if it's pure data oriented, then no speech or sound needed, just data packets over a localized wifi,

[Lamp]

Originally posted by Avenger93:

technicaly they should not even speak. When only among the mechanicus, the priests of mars only communicate through noospheric data bursts, not any form of physical audible speech. Binary cant is emited in religious ceremonies or in significant incantations, but if it's pure data oriented, then no speech or sound needed, just data packets over a localized wifi,

I think that’s what they were going for with this, the sound effects just being a representation of such. A non TP wouldn’t understand what the noises meant but to them, it’s packets of data in the form of what we read.