why i miss betty

[Karvat]

I think it would be better if the copilot took care of these things in the bigger ships

[Grimmrog]

Here is betty!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2ajzF27Gvg

turns out her name is Holley Chant and she is "Executive Director at KEO International Consultants "

I do not even know if she does voice acting anymore but her video is 6 months old and has 330 views, give her some love guys, she talks about sustainability in the video and it is good to hear her voice again.
persuade her guys, send encouragement to join her fans once more

It`s just a voice actress, not God.

This was the same nonsense that happened over the Clementine voice actress in the Walking Dead series. It gets creepy.

This is why I like Astra, she`s a completely artificial voice which means I don`t have to pedestal any one.

given nowdays we do have various kinds of voiceroids or vocaloids, it would be pretty fitting trying to use them instead of letting real actors voice lines. it would also be easier to implement new lines as they don't require recording of additions at all since once they can read stuff properly they cna read it all.

[Himmelweiss]

Here is betty!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2ajzF27Gvg

turns out her name is Holley Chant and she is "Executive Director at KEO International Consultants "

I do not even know if she does voice acting anymore but her video is 6 months old and has 330 views, give her some love guys, she talks about sustainability in the video and it is good to hear her voice again.
persuade her guys, send encouragement to join her fans once more

Her name is Olivia Powell for both english and german voices.

http://www.oliviapowell.de/

games:
Sam & Max, Team Fortress 2, BioShock 2, Riddles of Fate – The Wild Hunt, Bad Omen, XRebirth, Ravensburger TipToi, Borderlands – The PreSequel, Mafia 3

Well and now X4

[JamesTheClarke]

Am I missing something? They added Betty back in the new beta patch..

Haven't played the latest beta branch yet, been too absorbed with my latest Litcube run. How extensive was Betty implemented? Same as X3 (minus the Encyclopedia I guess) or less?

[radcapricorn]

Haven't played the latest beta branch yet, been too absorbed with my latest Litcube run. How extensive was Betty implemented? Same as X3 (minus the Encyclopedia I guess) or less?

Not very:

• Added option for "Betty" to speak target names.

[letwolf]

That betties just a fancy thing. Useless. Hope devs dont waste their time on it until all major bugs and lack of life-critical functions and command options added and work without bugs ( for example, Abort mission function not working at all)

[cormas]

That betties just a fancy thing. Useless. Hope devs dont waste their time on it until all major bugs and lack of life-critical functions and command options added and work without bugs ( for example, Abort mission function not working at all)

devs don't actually spend any time on it. they hire a studio, and actress, print out what they need her to cover and then go about their merry business squashing bugs.
I don't need betty to be available for 1.5, 2.0 as such but I would like her to be there eventually.
got a feeling that x4 will have good replayability years from now just like its predecessors.

[letwolf]

yes this way it would be okay

[rabtherab]

This romanticism over women saddens me considering the STI/D pandemic.

[furirkeeper]

This romanticism over women saddens me considering the STI/D pandemic.

I honestly don't understand what you mean? This is not a sexual thing, well, at least not for me. For me it adds color and flavor to the universe.

[mr.WHO]

yeah you are missing the encyclopedia.. it is not voiced, it was in x3.

In X3 there was something to read...in the Encyclopedia.

X4 encyclopedia can be read by Stevie Wonder.

[Playbahnosh]

But every race speaking english is not very realistic either. And why do you presume that Betty is human? She is in fact a computer AI.
So to reiterate, the AI logic should not be depending on language since it is doubtful that the AI internally use english at all, but you could have english as an adaptation layer on top of the AI. Or any other language that you prefer.

Either way, I want Betty back as well.

Technically, no, they don't speak English. X races have a common "Trade language" which is Neo-Japanese. In the X-Universe, after WWII the post-war economic boom never ends and Japan establishes itself as the global economic and cultural power. Japanese becomes the common language on Earth (English is only taught in schools as a second foreign language). Many centuries later human descendants, the Argon, spread this language around the Commonwealth and it becomes the galactic common "trade language" that races use to communicate with each other. So technically, Betty is speaking Neo-Japanese if anything.

Not splitting hairs, just thought I add a bit of trivia

[shealladh]

That betties just a fancy thing. Useless. Hope devs dont waste their time on it until all major bugs and lack of life-critical functions and command options added and work without bugs ( for example, Abort mission function not working at all)

devs don't actually spend any time on it. they hire a studio, and actress, print out what they need her to cover and then go about their merry business squashing bugs.

Have you seen the length and time Devs spend on scripting, hardly a hands off approach.

I don't need betty to be available for 1.5, 2.0 as such but I would like her to be there eventually.
got a feeling that x4 will have good replayability years from now just like its predecessors.

Totally agree here, other things to fix before the "need" for voice overs. As far as I'm concerned, they could use the previous games voice overs and I'd be happy with those.

[RefocusedLight]

what i really don't like is this feeling like being on the non-aggressor side of a beginning war.

Plot, going dark
Lore, going dark
Encyclopedia, going dark
Asymmetric factions, going dark
Betty, going dark
And then we get reported sightings of MP elements this side of the border