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[preview] Hewwo racial dialog mod - 12/15/2011 4:44:32 PM   
hewwo

 

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Status: offline 		There are a bunch of awesome modders out there that work on improving various parts of the game, but I have yet to see anyone working on the racial dialogs. Adding more varied and - in my opinion - somewhat better written diplomacy dialogs would greatly add to my immersion of the game... so I set out to write them myself!

I rewrote almost all of the dialog text for the humans and a lot of the dialog for the mechanoids as well, albeit less extensively. Eventually I want to look at the dialog of all of the races, but since I'll be busy with RL stuff the coming week I thought it would be nice to show you guys what I'm working on and hopefully get some feedback :)

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RE: [preview] Hewwo racial dialog mod - 12/15/2011 7:56:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		I liked this one  :  WAR_DECLARE   ;The human ambassador sends you an interstellar message. Apparently he already left his office last week. 




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RE: [preview] Hewwo racial dialog mod - 12/15/2011 10:54:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		Terrific stuff, hewwo. Keep it up!

EDIT: I've just noticed that your using the races.txt file to change a couple of things. This will only work with original DW and Return of the Shakturi expansion.

The Legends customization file structure is different.

However the dialogue files are still compatible.

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RE: [preview] Hewwo racial dialog mod - 12/16/2011 12:07:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		Good stuff, please keep it coming!

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RE: [preview] Hewwo racial dialog mod - 12/16/2011 9:30:36 AM   
hewwo

 

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Status: offline 		Thnx guys :)

@Igard, really? I'll look into that.

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RE: [preview] Hewwo racial dialog mod - 12/16/2011 1:03:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Inspired by hewwo I modified the Shakturi dialog. As a ME fan I based them a bit on the reapers, no surprise there. Shakturi, being an advanced ancient race coming from beyond the galaxy to wipe out the organic life, always kind of reminded me of the reapers anyway. I had no previous experience with modifying the dialog files I'm not sure if I wrote it correctly. It would probably be best if someone who knows his way around those files gave it a look before it could be shared officially in this thread.

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RE: [preview] Hewwo racial dialog mod - 12/16/2011 1:21:38 PM   
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Nice job! Really gives some more "color" to the humans. Interesting to see what you can do with the other races.

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"Sentient beings need never fear pain." Both the Sovereign and the Harbinger have great and memorable quotes. I'll probably use those in the future.



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RE: [preview] Hewwo racial dialog mod - 12/17/2011 10:26:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		Kalthaniell, those are great quotes! You mind if I use them for the next version of the mod? I guess I'll have to call it the 'community racial dialog mod' then

Also, take a look at the base_dialog.txt file. You may want to extend you shakturi dialog with some of the stuff found in that file, otherwise the game will automatically use the base_dialog for the stuff you didn't rewrite. You will get a rather inconsistent shakturi if you didn't. Although tbh, I've never actually run into the shakturi in a game

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RE: [preview] Hewwo racial dialog mod - 12/18/2011 8:12:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		Sure you can use them hewwo. That's why I made them ;) I think I know which lines I need to add to the text file. Thx for the advice!

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