Why Can’t SCP-049 Talk to Humans?

[Xarvis]

Shouldn’t SCP-049 be able to talk to human players like he does in the lore? If SCPs 939 and 079 can communicate with human players why can he?

[Biggity Swigger]

just stop ffs

[Erect Water Buffalo]

There are a tone of non lore friendly things in sl already. Such as the surgery that 049 needs to do. I'm sure he will be getting a rework in the future that addresses this.

[zistix1]

The Devs said that SCP-049 can't talk to Humans because SCPs 939 and 079 are the "Talkers" maybe you could get someone to make a plugin(a mod basically) that allows him to talk to Humans if you really want it that much

[Dbat]

Devs already said no to letting 049 talk. Even though he does talk in lore he doesn’t speak too often and talking is much more associated with 939. If you let 049 talk 939 loses much of what makes it stand out. People like 939 because it is the one that can talk and you shouldn’t sacrifice game feel to be lore friendly.

[cecil]

Think of it from a devs and gameplay perspective.

Each SCP has a gimmick.
049's gimmick is to create zombies.
939's gimmick is to try to trick and lure people out of hiding, but to talk to everyone he's limited. He can only hear people if they're moving.
079 is a support class, he can only speak for a limited time in limited rooms, and has a voice modifier over it. This is because it isn't supposed to talk to people, but it makes sense to have speakers around the facility.

Here you can see the limitations when you have the privilege to talk to other people.

If 049 did speak he has to have something to limit it, like the other SCP's. The main goal is to kill people, not chat with people.

[Erect Water Buffalo]

Originally posted by Dbat978:

Devs already said no to letting 049 talk. Even though he does talk in lore he doesn’t speak too often and talking is much more associated with 939. If you let 049 talk 939 loses much of what makes it stand out. People like 939 because it is the one that can talk and you shouldn’t sacrifice game feel to be lore friendly.

Yo instead of making him talk they should add some voice clips for 049 whenever he kills or revives a zombie. That would act as a good indicator as to whether or not he's nearby

[76561198834439489]

Because 049 rarely talks, the Foundation didnt even know he could talk until he talked in a interview several days after being arrested by the SCP Foundation.

[All Game Kome]

as they said, they are trying to be the most different from the CB, because of that, he isnt able to Voice chat with humans

[Sin]

We've discussed this previously; SCP-939 and SCP-079 can already communicate with humans, so adding the ability for 049 to do so is somewhat pointless. Locking the discussion.