Why not make all special taunts available?

(The Enema Bandit) #1

Why not?
Why are merc’s special taunt 6 and 7 unavailable until a certain time?
How does it even work? What do you have to do to unlock them?

For Javelin though, all special taunts are unlocked by default.

(Melinder) #2

I was under the impression that if a Merc didn’t have all of the Special Taunts, they simply hadn’t recorded enough voice lines to fill them up.

(The Enema Bandit) #3

Nope.

(Eox) #4

Why nope ? They just haven’t been recorded or haven’t been added to the game yet. There’s no voicelines to unlock in this game, and nobody really knows about those “locked voicelines” so far, except maybe the dev team.

(The Enema Bandit) #5

Nope, there are voicelines for special taunts 6 and 7 for every merc, but they’re not always available.

(Melinder) #6

@Enema_Bandit

@Eox said:
They just haven’t been recorded or haven’t been added to the game yet.

(frostyvampire) #7

@Eox said:
Why nope ? They just haven’t been recorded or haven’t been added to the game yet. There’s no voicelines to unlock in this game, and nobody really knows about those “locked voicelines” so far, except maybe the dev team.

Voice lines 6 and 7 are sometimes glitchy and it says “LOCKED” in red. I don’t know why it happens but the voice line exists, sometimes it works normally, sometimes it’s locked.
In my 1000 hours I never found out when they become unlocked. It just happens

(Mc1412013) #8

I used to think it was based on load out cards some cards they were locked out.

(The Enema Bandit) #9

@Melinder said:
@Enema_Bandit

@Eox said:
They just haven’t been recorded or haven’t been added to the game yet.

That’s simply not true.

@frostyvampire said:
Voice lines 6 and 7 are sometimes glitchy and it says “LOCKED” in red. I don’t know why it happens but the voice line exists, sometimes it works normally, sometimes it’s locked.
In my 1000 hours I never found out when they become unlocked. It just happens

Curious, isn’t it?
I’ve always wondered how it works.

All taunts should be available by dafault really. Some of them are brilliant, Rhino’s 6th and 7th special taunts are maybe my favourites out of the ‘locked’ ones.
Nothing beats those long-ass Sorry voicelines though. :slight_smile:

(Eox) #10

@frostyvampire said:

@Eox said:
Why nope ? They just haven’t been recorded or haven’t been added to the game yet. There’s no voicelines to unlock in this game, and nobody really knows about those “locked voicelines” so far, except maybe the dev team.

Voice lines 6 and 7 are sometimes glitchy and it says “LOCKED” in red. I don’t know why it happens but the voice line exists, sometimes it works normally, sometimes it’s locked.
In my 1000 hours I never found out when they become unlocked. It just happens

Sounds like a glitch. You might want to report it.

(Press E) #11

A comment I found a year ago on DB’s reddit:

All mercs have 7 special taunts configured and ready to use, however there’s an invalid array called by certain mercs which causes the last 2 to be locked. You can manually clear this array and use the extra taunts in single player mode, but won’t be able to access any online games with it changed.
Array in Question:

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So, seeing as this person seems to know what they’re doing, it sounds like a bug.
It’s definitely not because they haven’t been recorded though, as they inconsistently unlock every now and then.

(TheStrangerous) #12

All of you complaining about locked taunts, and I’m just sitting here, mourning the fact, that Turtle can’t cough, yawn or say goodbye… LIKE A NORMAL HUMAN BEING. :’(

(The Enema Bandit) #13

@TheStrangerous said:
All of you complaining about locked taunts, and I’m just sitting here, mourning the fact, that Turtle can’t cough, yawn or say goodbye… LIKE A NORMAL HUMAN BEING. :’(

More like wondering than complaining. This ‘issue’ has been a thing since 2015.
I thought Turtle’s missing lines were fixed.

(Nail) #14

there may be a problem with some of the alternate language translations

(Faraleth) #15

This has actually been a glitch for a VERY long time, where they simply will not load in as available. Honestly at this point, it’s such a minor and obscure thing, I can see why they never bothered getting around to fixing it. When you’ve got limited resources, would you rather someone spend time debugging gameplay and core mechanics, or an obscure voice-line glitch that has next-to-no impact on the game itself?

Hopefully in the future it can be looked in, but honestly, I really don’t think it’s a big enough issue to warrant the time investment of the devs. :smiley: That’s just my 2 cents.

(The Enema Bandit) #16

@Faraleth
Yeah, I get that, but it should be pretty easy to fix.

I don’t know about how much of an impact taunts have. Taunting some enemies could be useful; it could affect their concentration, disrupt their balance. Taunts are often successfully used in sports for example. There are lots of sports where taunting is not allowed just because it could have a huge impact. Not completely the same in DB though, I know :slight_smile:

Rhino’s 7th special taunt has a certain impact in the form of lols for me:
“What do you mean, “do I work out”? What do YOU think!”
His sixth is pretty decent too, situational, but good: “That’s no way to behave. Have you no manners?” These are the two locked ones.
All of Rhino’s vocelines are brilliant really. There’s one rare “Aw yeah!” where he’s cursing out loud. Classy af

(kopyright) #17

@Enema_Bandit said:
I don’t know about how much of an impact taunts have.

For a start they piss off everybody on your server if you keep spamming them.

(Noir) #18

It’s a minor bug for sure and it does not bother me much. I was just thinking they had no been recorded.
But Dirty Bomb has the best lines ever. A lot of them are golden. I love to use them and hope SD finds time to look at this.