How do I mute Holly and Lucio?

[Decade[UK]]

I swear these two never shut up, and they are both aggressively unfunny, despite their attempts at witty banter. Can i go into the gamefiles and rename some stuff so their cringe doesn't play?

[YMD]

Holy is okay. and who is lucio?

[Reeva!]

Editing the game's files in any way will make the game not start. Any errors the game gives you will result in a crash if it's got to do with a file not working properly. It's part of their incessant desire to neuter any hopes of a modding community for this game. They even do filesize checks.

[MShields]

Originally posted by ̀͠͏̡Sea-Chicken ✓:

who is lucio?

evangelo, i call him lucio, too.

[Terranical]

Originally posted by MShields:

Originally posted by ̀͠͏̡Sea-Chicken ✓:

who is lucio?

evangelo, i call him lucio, too.

he sounds like a lucio, plays like a lucio, but is worse than a lucio.

[ᚺᚢᚾᛏᛖᚱ]

Agree those feel like ellis/Zoey but with - 10 on funny and + 10 on cringe

I'm super happy when nobody picks those two, Lucio is rarely seen on vet+ but holly... If those would atleast play a decent tank build but first you have awful voicelines and second a awful wannabe hybrid player.

[Decade[UK]]

L4D understood that players would be grinding these same levels over and over, which is why they gave most voice lines a less than 1% chance of triggering. You could play for hundreds of hours in L4D and still hear new voice lines, because of how rare they were.
In less than a week of play I've heard that obnoxious conversation about shooting fish in a barrel dozens of times, and I don't care about Lucios Saturday morning cartoons. Give me an option to shut up these two cringelords.

[Shadow]

Holly is quite literally the female version of Ellis from Left 4 Dead 2.

[Terranical]

Originally posted by DriftManiac:

Holly is quite literally the female version of Ellis from Left 4 Dead 2.

Except she is annoying as hell. I'd listen to Ellis more than Holly.

[Bullied by Pigeon]

"my pack starting to sound like Nanas cats" he is a goofy

[Big Stick Energy]

It is the oddest thing...

I've come to like every other character except Evangelo and Holly...and I think I figured out why: their dialogue is too long.

I think my favorite way to explain this is to compare their friendly fire apology lines to that of the rest of the cast. Consider the following:

Holly: "Oh, sorry! I have to watch where I point this thing!"

...Not only is this line a little on the stupid side, given that, of course, you should be 'watching where you point that thing', but it's also too long. A simple apology would suffice; she gets the point across briefly in the apology, and that alone suffices. Were this a single line that came from a list of other lines that would be fine...but multiple of her Friend Fire Apology lines are too long.

Factor in some of her longer idle banter lines, her bash attack/melee lines, and some of the repeatable travel banter lines and you start to see how long many of her lines drag on past the point of comfort.

Evangelo has a lot of similar lines, that often feel like they can be split into two different lines. Both of these characters feel like there was a strong attempt to give them a big personality...but I feel like they went the 'big words' route.

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None of this is to say the other characters don't have lines that are long; even my favorite characters have some long lines (Hoffman's conspiracies in particular). But these are typically not in the more commonly re-playable roster (Idle banter, bash/melee, or Friendly Fire Call outs/Apologies/Remarks) and more towards ambient storytelling. Now, those are also played a little more than they should be (and aren't really map/region exclusive, which can be odd.) but they are played at key moments and not triggered by common actions.

[Liandri]

OP are you SrGrafo?

https://i.redd.it/fawqnjnviuv71.jpg

[Decade[UK]]

Originally posted by Liandri:

OP are you SrGrafo?

https://i.redd.it/fawqnjnviuv71.jpg

No. I don't believe this is an unpopular opinion. Many people share it.

[Decade[UK]]

Originally posted by Mister Bubbles:

It is the oddest thing...

I've come to like every other character except Evangelo and Holly...and I think I figured out why: their dialogue is too long.

This is the most frustrating aspect for me. I've really taken a shine to the melee build, which locks me into playing either Holly or Lucio exclusively. So I'm forced into this position of being forced to play the most unlikable and irritating characters in the game, if I want to enjoy the game on a mechanical level. They're trying so hard to be liked, and it's just awful.

Killing Floor gives you an option to disable non-essential character banter. This is what B4B dearly needs.

[Reeva!]

They made Holly akin to Harley Quin, the stance, the bat, the attitude, and the quirky-enough banter with sarcasm on top. Evangelo is just irritating. Holly has some long dialogue lines that usually triggers randomly when characters interact, Evangelo's dialogue triggers all the time. It's exactly the same issue Borderlands 3 suffers from; Characters that don't know when to stfu. You can say "I'm out of ammo!" and then you can say "I've got bullets (grunt) just not in my gun!" which is entirely unnecessary and takes away from the direness of the situation, which makes the game feel like a comedy skit instead of something that wants to be taken seriously.