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Suggestion for a new Game Feature: Voice Commands
zeroextremeg
Member Posts: 10 Arc User
I've been stewing over a feature that Cryptic could add to the game that would make things much more interactive and fun: Voice Commands.
How cool would it be to be able to go into a space battle and give voice commands in real-time and activate abilities that are currently slotted on your boffs. Or to say a command like, "Target and fire all weapons on (insert players' name) target." and the game would switch targets to that players' target and fire all weapons currently in that arc, etc.
I hear so much how player's want to be able to act like they are controlling what happens on their ship as if they were on the bridge. This would accomplish that.
Another really cool thing would be that since they are opening up sector space and dropping the walls would be to say "Set a course for New Romulus, Maximum Warp." for example, and the ship would turn and accelerate to full speed; then you could say "activate slipstream drive" to activate your slipstream, if able.
Voice Commands would open a level of interaction that would breathe new life into the game and draw new people as well, because you can literally act like the captain of the ship, instead of just clicking on things or hitting keys.
Finally, you could do it for both space and ground combat as well, because you can just tie specific commands to the abilities and have the game recognize what commands are available to you based on what you have slotted to your boffs and class specific abilities.
I know this would be a huge overhaul, but I think that a lot of players would be behind it.
How cool would it be to be able to go into a space battle and give voice commands in real-time and activate abilities that are currently slotted on your boffs. Or to say a command like, "Target and fire all weapons on (insert players' name) target." and the game would switch targets to that players' target and fire all weapons currently in that arc, etc.
I hear so much how player's want to be able to act like they are controlling what happens on their ship as if they were on the bridge. This would accomplish that.
Another really cool thing would be that since they are opening up sector space and dropping the walls would be to say "Set a course for New Romulus, Maximum Warp." for example, and the ship would turn and accelerate to full speed; then you could say "activate slipstream drive" to activate your slipstream, if able.
Voice Commands would open a level of interaction that would breathe new life into the game and draw new people as well, because you can literally act like the captain of the ship, instead of just clicking on things or hitting keys.
Finally, you could do it for both space and ground combat as well, because you can just tie specific commands to the abilities and have the game recognize what commands are available to you based on what you have slotted to your boffs and class specific abilities.
I know this would be a huge overhaul, but I think that a lot of players would be behind it.
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Lets just hope they don't track what you say and sell it to GOOGLE....
...For about a week before players realize how imprecise, limited and overall adding nothing new, and before the developers realize they wasted a lot of time and money for a gimmick people will barely use when 3 clicks are faster and more efficient.
Remember the Kinect? Capturing your whole body movements, using voice commands and all, replace classic controllers, allow you new levels of immersion? How it was supposed to be the next new thing after the Wiimote, to revolutionize gaming, to allow a good Star Wars lightsaber game?
Yep, nowadays, as soon as a game is said to be made with the Kinect in mind, the overall reaction is either "How about no?" or "stop murdering my beloved series!".
Well, it would also be totally voluntary as well, a feature you can turn on and off, as well as being able to use it in tandem with the current system, like being able to click on things or say the command. In terms of security of what you say, it's really no different than using the in-game voice chat, a feature they already have.
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...."
There was person who went by the /nick DarrenKitlore. Darren always had these great ideas for STO. He would even create how the interface would look to run mini games he devised. Darren was very enthusiastic about STO, and so he tried very hard to make his ideas in game realities.
None of them ever came to be used. I would say he moved on, a bit demoralized. No doubt Darren went on to greener pastures than Cryptic could have ever offered him.
Long story short, 99% of the ideas we the players try to get Cryptic interested, never happen.
Your enthusiasm is to be commended, Zero. I'd hate to see you waste your time with something that probably would not end well, all things considered.
There is one thing, well now two, at least, you can look at in the game that was created by the players: The Odyssey FED Cruiser and the FED Veteran Starship. Both of these came from a contest held by Cryptic a while ago: the legendary FuzzyModem Fiasco, or, as Cryptic would say, the "Design the Enterprise-F" contest. You should be able to find all of this on google searches, if you're so inclined.
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T9
True, the ground combat would be more difficult to implement, (or it could be explicitly restricted to space, which is where the game shines anyway.) but it would be just restricted to specifically activating abilities your boffs have. If they or the target are out of range, if would not work, just like it is now when you click it.
You: Fire!
Computer: "Opening file"
You: FIRE!
Computer: ...Server Not Responding... (enemy continues its assault on your ship)
You: FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
Finally the computer recognizes your order as a single photon torpedo leaves its launch tube as your ship explodes into a fireball in the void of space.
...how does that saying go about the well laid plans of men?
I call B.S.
BS Example 1
Kind of BS Example 2 - read option 4 which is kind of being tested with the upcoming new alt event thing.
And yes, these ideas were probably already in the works. Or maybe someone read them and saw the responses and thought either, hey let's dust this off the shelf or lets put this plan into action. Who knows? But to the OP never be discouraged in voicing your ideas. Just because someone failed before you doesn't you will suffer the same fate.
That really didn't turn out too well; somehow saying things like "look" became "bark".
There was also another recent game (IIRC, for PS3 and X360) that had Voice Command as an optional extra control method; also with mixed success. Think it had a bit of a humans vs robot drama. Don't recall the name of it though.
Lol, I'm not talking about your computer itself trying to recognize the command, but the game itself. If the game doesn't pick up what you are saying, you can still use the keyboard and mouse like normal.
I'm talking about adding a level of interaction to the game, not replacing the current one.
It has been done - so go do it yourself if you want it. It isnt something that the dev's need to spend time on as the technology is out there.
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Yeah, I'd see voice commands here doing the same thing.
What? Are you on drugs? If you think for a second that something you posted a year ago was the impetus for an already existing idea...I don't think I can even answer that, on the grounds of how ludicrous that suggestion is.
Put yer head back up your backside where it came from.
I set it up once for WoW. It was fun. So, you can already do it if you play on a Mac or you have to find a third party program.
Add in different languages... accents (those Jo-gins sound a lot different then those Naw Yawkers)... and it's a mess.
I was wondering, who was going to be the 1st, to post this information!
This software works but, does require some tinkering to get it to work properly, with use of the Alt/Cntrl/Shift keys.
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I haven't used VA in STO in months now, but I did play with it for a while when I was running the Delta Quadrant storyline. Helped me out in a few of the missions that I wasn't quite strong enough for (kicking off powers I could never remember the keybinds for lol), but became too frustrating when I had to scream out the same command a few times before it would finally kick off
While "neat", it's not really something that would be particularly playable.. even if it worked properly. Even if you shortened it to just numbers (such as saying "ONE" activated the ability in skill bar 1, slot 1) then you'd still be slower than just hitting buttons. Significantly so.
One of the problems is that by the time you speak the commands for "Beam Array Overload" and "Torpedo Spread", someone NOT using the voice commands can mash a whole tray's worth of commands. Basically, it would be a feature that was almost never used.
Another problem lies in the fact that, while STO actually HAS a voice chat server, it has never worked as well as 3rd party VOIP programs. If they can't even implement Voice Chat properly, how will they make Voice Commands work?
Not to mention, a lot of fleet, groups, etc actually use voice chat when doing missions together. How would you get the program to recognize the difference between Voice Chat and Voice Commands?
ME: "Hey, be sure not to use 'Fire at Will' or the Sphere's will spawn when you hit the Nanite..."
COMPUTER: "Activating 'Fire at Will'
TEAMMATES: "(*&%&^*(*((*)(^%$$!!!!!!!!"
activate tact team 1 ... activate tact team 1 .... redistribute shields .... fire all weapons ... fire all weapons ... fire all weapons ...
so that would slow players response times to any given situation .... cause tremendous lag and use up significant cpu ressources . also how the hell would you keep using TeamSpeak with that feature ???
FYI ... when siri hears your command , the command is sent to a server .. analyzed .. and then sends back the command to the phone . due to the high cpu power required to decipher our language and translate it into a command, its not as simple as it seems.
its no feasible at a reasonable cost , will require either significant bandwith or cpu resources . So its a 10000% bad idea . I would never fly a team mission with someone knowing they would be using a feature like that , because they will just be a weak link in the team PLUS they wouldn't be able to communicate with the team .