Improving TF2's Voice Commands

The voice command system in Team Fortress 2 is something we all use but never really think much of. Why should we? We've got bigger issues... like the muting of free-to-play accounts and the bots that continue to roam servers. Even then, TF2's voice commands are completely functional as is. But... like most other things, there's always room for improvement, which is what I'm aiming for within this video.
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[@KayEfEl]

Fun Fact: In the early days of TF2 people would use the "Sentry Ahead" line to let people know snipers were ahead since it was more useful against snipers than sentries

[@sn0ipe333]

Not that I don’t doubt this claim, but where did you hear it from? The specific time period where players would have deemed a sniper more worth calling out than a sentry doesn’t really match up. Sniper was never considered a particularly strong class until later into the game’s development where classes became more fleshed out. Early sniper was pretty much balanced simply because many players were playing on crappy hardware.

[@walter1383]

I do that today while playing. It's a hell of a lot easier than typing out sniper when unable to voice chat and gets the message of a dangerous sightline across easy enough to any player with half a brain.

[@VeryRGOTI]

most snipers can be considered sentries nowadays

[@cube2483]

@@sn0ipe333 i do that

[@DDTV-jn2kn]

i do that too today

[@highway_roadkill]

for the 'Sniper Ahead!' and 'Ready?' commands, there are already voicelines used in MvM for similar scenarios (Sniperbots spawning and readying up) that could be easily dropped into regular TF2 with little to no modification.

[@velnz5475]

canonically they make sense as well, considering these are mercs that probably dont say sorry or be careful... altho they would be mighty fine additions

[@sergeantconagher]

You could probably use the "Bomb" voice lines for trap ahead lines too.

[@thiccpizza8008]

@@velnz5475 They actually do say sorry in quite a bit of their quotes.

[@velnz5475]

@@thiccpizza8008 Demo, Soldier and Engi but the rest are mercs through and through. Medic even sais it mockingly

[@twitterhaha]

arent the ready up voicelines just the "go!" voicelines

[@UsedNameTag13]

A few ideas for what the classes would say: “Careful!”: Scout: “‘ey, slow down!” Soldier: “Be prepared to fall back, men.” Pyro: some sort sort of muffled “be careful guys!” Demo: “Oi! Watch out ‘fer.. whatever’s out there!” Heavy: “Careful, danger ahead!” Engi: “Hold yer horses there pardner.” Medic: “Vait! I must assist you!” Sniper: “Watch out mate.” Spy: “Now is not the time to rush.” “Ready”: Scout: “Come on, lets go!” Soldier: “I am ready to fall in!” Pyro: muffled “This’ll be fun!” Demo: “Ready to go lads?” Heavy: “I am ready!” Engi: “You prepared?” Medic: “Ready when you are!” Sniper: “Come on mates.” Spy: “Now would be a good time to strike.” “Sorry.”: Scout: “Aw man, I’m sorry.” Soldier: “Oops, too far.” Pyro: some sort of sad sound Demo: “Oh, I’m sorry lad.” Heavy: “Sorry!” Engi: “Aw, I’m sorry man.” Medic: “Verzeihung.” (German for sorry) Sniper: “Aw piss. Sorry mate.” Spy: “Apologies. That was not intended.”

[@eggwhitepopcorn2918]

Engi would say "my apologies"

[@FIVEBASKET]

This good

[@juckya9660]

Amendments for what I think would work better Careful: Scout: "ey, slow down over 'ere!" Demo: "May wunna sit this one out lads" With eyelander: "Hold on tight to ye head lads!" Heavy: "Little baby men are dangerous!" Spy: "Now is not ze time for heroics"/"Don't be an idiot" Ready: Scout: Bemusedly "Let's do this!" Demo: "i've got me fight now!" / "I'll be ready when I'm drunk! and I am!" / "[AWAKES] We're gunna do it! The plan! " Medic: "Diagnosis, very Ready." / "Ready, poh I'm quite ready!" Sniper: "Come on you wankers!" Spy: "Now is the time for the killing!" Sorry: Scout: "That was only 99 percent intended"/"No hard feelings buddy?" Soldier: "Sorry soldier" Demo: "It's the beer lad!" [slurred] "I'mm nut the man I ussed to be" Heavy: "Apologies"/"I feel many shame for phat!" Engineer: "Sorry pardner" Spy: "Zat was... a mistake/Miscalculation"

[@william3371]

I like this Not perfect imo, but everyone will probably have differing opinions on this

[@S71ckBug]

I am imagining demoman saying "CHAAAARGE!"

[@wiifitt]

I want a "hello" voice line. Can't tell you how often I get caught out in enemy lines and just thought to myself, a simple 'hi' would be perfect here.

[@Imirui]

I want this because if I miss a market I just want soldier to say “Hello again!”

[@kitsureiel3679]

Personally I just say “thanks” with my melee out

[@Rafelandroid2]

@@kitsureiel3679 this is the way

[@foodaah]

​@@kitsureiel3679 *misses market garden* Thanks! *killbinds*

[@RabiaCelik0307]

general kenobi

[@John_Smith_Dumfugg]

I've been yearning for a sniper shout out voice line forever.

[@walmadagaming5723]

But voice actor are retired

[@Portal2Player]

@@walmadagaming5723 there are already all of the classes yelling sniper in MVM, so they would already use lines in the game.

[@walmadagaming5723]

@@Portal2Player how about the class that not saying sniper?

[@Portal2Player]

@@walmadagaming5723 They all yell out sniper, in mvm, occasionally snipers will spawn in and all the classes will yell out that there are snipers.

[@Capiosus]

he he time to walkie into sniper sightline (medic)

[@spiffy3430]

We need a fallback voice command because the amount of times I’ve seen an Uber push turn into a kill everyone on our team is too much to count

[@theunrelatedbot8245]

I think "Incoming" could be used the same way

[@NicoTheCheese]

​@@theunrelatedbot8245 I also use incoming when I see an uber + voice chat

[@sn0ipe333]

X + 1

[@Anshhhhhhhhhk]

Incoming is already a command

[@jacklewis1248]

@@Anshhhhhhhhhk That's what they said.

[@commodorex]

"Sorry" voicelines ideas; Scout: Oh, my bad! Whoops, sorry fellas! That was my bad! Whoops, my bad! Soldier: Apologies! (assertive and angry sounding) Sorry men. My bad. Sorry about that! Pyro: (whoops) (sorry) (my bad) (whoops sorry) Demo: Ach, that 'ns on me fellas. Aw cripe, sorry mate. Ach, whoops, sorry mate. Ach, whoops, sorry boys. Heavy: SORRY. HEAVY IS SORRY. THAT WAS HEAVY'S BAD. HEAVY FEELS SORRY. Engineer: Sorry pal... Aheh, whoops, sorry buddy! Ah hell, my bad fellas... That one's on me fellas, sorry... Medic: Vhoops, mein bad... Vhoops, sorry! HAHA, vhoops! Es tut me leid! Scheise, mein bad... Sniper: Ooh... my bad... Yikes, sorry for that one guys... Yeesh, that's on me... Eugh, sorry mate... Spy: My condolences. My apologies, gentleman. I am truly sorry. My apologies.

[@ChipDrewPog]

Here's another suggestion: There's a voice command specifically for medics to say their uber is ready, one that, much like the pass time command, does nothing outside of medic. Why not let soldiers use it to indicate a charged banner?

[@StockTM]

Perhaps it could be used for indicating all rechargeable items.

[@mxl1350]

and it could just be renamed to "Weapon Ready" or something like that

[@MaxwellE985]

yeah but it is just like the ubercharge or pass time,does nothing outside of soldier,like with the ubercharge you could scare...enemies?...

[@mxl1350]

@@MaxwellE985 it could be used for the gas passer, mad milk, jarate, shields, and etc

[@dumbleking5172]

​@@StockTM Scout: Milk's ready!

[@luke475]

I want for f2p's to be allowed to use voice commands and only that cause its very convinient

[@AutistRapper]

YES PLEASE

[@AbsoluteRatBastard]

@@petis1477 I guess they did that so bots couldnt use mics

[@AbsoluteRatBastard]

@@petis1477 Oh okay yeah

[@ImDaRealBoi]

@@petis1477 bots also spam medic, sadly enough. The dickcheese that's smelt from lifeless bot makers is pungent.

[@shrub8644]

It would make sense to at least be able to use them even if less often than premium players

[@chilX3467]

We need a “BEHIND YOU!” voice command in big bold letters because too many people just won’t turn around when there’s danger behind them because they just have no awareness.

[@HIPP05]

spy voiceline

[@wilsonweiseng6485]

same, imagine you watching the guy in front of you die because spy walked up to his back but you can only say there's a spy in the base or that spy's not one of us

[@clyne8835]

Please don't add this I main pyro with the backburner

[@mariustan9275]

@@clyne8835 Get better flanks

[@AshleysBrother]

@@clyne8835 skill issue

[@CuddlyTheMadElite]

The sorry command could also be useful when you accidentally block your teammate’s shots/melee, or when you steal your teammate’s kill on weapons like the Air Strike or most of Demo’s Swords.

[@asepsaepullooh7455]

Also useful when someone stole the health pack when you or someone is low health

[@bemzefat3385]

C+6, C+4

[@dapperfield595]

@@bemzefat3385 *accidentally steals healthpack* "Should've saved a bullet for some of you blokes"

[@user-zh9pe1jb4z]

​@@bemzefat3385 C.c RR c.cXCd C .

[@bemzefat3385]

@@dapperfield595 cant see the problem here. average sniper main

[@sheacorduroy5565]

It always bugged me that they made voicelines for pointing out sniper bots in MVM but they never used them for a “SNIPER!” voiceline like there is with spy. Would honestly fix a lot of issues.

[@mdalsted]

I was just about to say, the "Sniper" voice command could recycle that set of voicelines from MVM...for the classes that have them. (Seriously, why do only *some* of the classes have more line contexts than others for MVM? Scout doesn't have anything new to say in that mode outside of the Rottenburg (or whatever it's called) map?)

[@Casual_PKBeats]

Voice line commands are so ingrained in my muscle memory I find myself pressing the buttons for them in other games out of instinct, like fuckin' Minecraft LOL I like your suggestions a lot, I've had similar ideas for potential new (and removed) voice commands. I especially like the idea of a "Sorry" or a "Careful," I think those could get the most utility out of them all. Great editing too btw, awesome watch

[@highway_roadkill]

i've literally dropped items and tools in Minecraft because i'm trying to tell someone 'Thanks!' using voice commands, and my drop item key is set to X. similarly i also often try to taunt in other games by pressing G. guess that starts to happen when you've poured 2,000 hours into one game

[@Elemenopee.]

since when do you play tf2???

[@Cracker_Smacker]

Me spamming thank and move up every 2 second for no reason

[@ThatNoobKing]

@@highway_roadkill I've also dropped items for press Q to switch to my previous item sometimes xd

[@FluorescentGreen5]

do you press x+2 when you see a creeper

[@funnypeashootercreature]

fun fact: L4D2 (and i think L4D1) had voice wheels for the voice commands, and im surprised valve didn't do that for tf2, basically when going z-c, a wheel would appear, then with your cursor you could choose which voiceline to use

[@nathanfivecoate5848]

Multiplayer fps environment wouldn't work as well with that I think because your cursor is normally tied to the mouse, making it more difficult to move+aim+shoot while using commands

[@Slashthekitsune]

@@nathanfivecoate5848 L4D2 is... also a multiplayer fps? It's just smaller.

[@KorotasGeckoGamingCorner]

I think they later ported the voice command wheel into CSGO, and many other FPS games have adopted it since Though, that being said, a weird part of me does want them to have an "advanced" voice command option where it pulls up a menu reminiscent of TF2 and it's predecessors. @@nathanfivecoate5848

[@cyberflixt]

@@nathanfivecoate5848 wheels are much better especially in mouse locked games, look at valorant for example

[@santiagoindisguise7289]

​@@nathanfivecoate5848 I mean having to move your hands to all the way up to the 9 button can be distracting too, especially for lefties.

[@Tblaster00]

Theres a command to call for health, with its own key (E), but not to say "hey im out of/low on ammo", which is arguably just as valuable as the medic call. Especially since, ive had uber popped while i fired my last shot before the charge.

[@oktayyildirim2911]

Well, there's no on-demand way to give ammo to teammates other than placing a dispenser (which already has a command) or killbinding.

[@edvingjervaldsaeter3659]

I have heard of a idea on that medics should be able to see their patient's ammo count, and in Deep Rock Galactic, the dwarves automatically call out when they are out of ammo, where I think another expansion on that concept could be the characters to automatically call out "low on ammo" when below 25/33%

[@StockTM]

@@edvingjervaldsaeter3659 Wouldn't it make more sense for an engineer to see ammo counts as they're the ones who are able to provide it?

[@drakal2045]

@@edvingjervaldsaeter3659 You CAN see their ammo tho, but only the ammounts of ammo on a mag before reloading, you just gotta see the patient you're healing and it pops out

[@Tblaster00]

@@oktayyildirim2911 I mean it as less a demand to give ammo, more a thing in the vein of notifying your team that you are low or out of ammo so that they can cover your spot in the frontlines, or decide to Uber someone else to not waste it on someone with no ammo, etc.

[@mersonkrazyTV]

There should be little bubbles similar to the call for medic one that people can see when you use voice commands so that they're a lot easier to notice and read for your team

[@wilsonweiseng6485]

lol imagine a hidden invinsible spy with that thing on because he's broadcasting the enemy movement to his team, real funny as hell

[@smugdodofart27]

I would also love a “THEY UBERED!” voice line, I think it could be funny to hear the mercs shout it and pretty helpful!

[@mishagaming1075]

heavy: "They've outsmarted bullet! RUN!"

[@DaRkLoRdZoRc]

For the extraneous voice lines in need of replacing, I feel like the Cheers and Positive lines could be easily smashed together into the same category, as could the Jeers and Negative ones. I genuinely can't tell the difference between them in terms of intent, since they both seem to fall under the same 'grousing about your team/the current state of the game' category. I also have to say that the 'Move Up!' and 'Go! Go! Go!' commands don't really seem like they need to be separate, either. Especially if a third rallying command like 'Ready!' is added. Move Up! seems to be specifically for Engineers, which your team might not even have any of. It seems somewhat unnecessary. On the other hand, I disagree with the removal of the 'Go Left' and 'Go Right' lines. I haven't needed to use them as much as some of the others, but if you're on a map with a lot of different routes, or you're escorting a Medic or some newie who doesn't know where they're going, it's easy to lead them safely with those commands. A niche use, yeah, but it's also one of the few that's legitimately useful for your teammates, as opposed to basically just being there for flavor like the 'Thanks,' 'Good Job,' and Battle Cry commands. With that being said, perhaps they could be replaced by a 'Follow Me!' command that combines their functions.

[@anitheproto]

I will agree that "Thanks" is mostly useless, however, as a medic player it makes me feel really nice when my heal target thanks me because playing medic is pain.

[@dickc.normus2406]

Cheers/Jeers are usually actual voice lines, Positive/Negative is just laughing and annoyed groaning respectively. I really think Positive/Negative are bigger candidates for being axed since on some classes the lines that play are basically inaudible if there's any sort of background noise.

[@RustysRevenge]

I think one is for disdain towards your team, while the other is general disappointment

[@amazingnoo9935]

Love the idea of a follow me command. Evolution of medic while aiming at a medic

[@goombanr3411]

I use go left/go right a lot in two cities, where its amazing to indicate out of which spawn the bots come for newer players/players who just dont know.

[@Socialmenace293]

Maybe what you could do is give the option to personalize the commands and select the ones you want and where, many games do this, especially those with a competitive side

[@agust8474]

This is a great idea, that way they dont need to remove any

[@mrgetoverit2213]

can't you already do this with text binds? I know that'd once again screw over f2ps but the two ideas are practically identical.

[@SnakeManvsArbok]

I will advocate a little for the "Go Left" and "Go Right" commands. As an MvM player, these are VERY useful on Mannhattan and Rottenburg especially. Telling your team when Steel Gauntlets spawn upstairs, or to be careful of the crit soldier bots on wave 2 of Hamlet is such a consistently useful thing. I do think that removing the cancel button is probably a better idea to include more voice lines, since you can close them by pressing the same button again

[@opoderosoimperioteocratico4885]

The command "Sorry!" would be great for when you accidentally hurt or kill a friendly

[@thejungleking7785]

You could always use the L4D radial menu to replace the buttons commands, where you click z/y/x and then use your mouse to pick the command.

[@DoABarrelRol1l]

Yeah I saw those in a video game and though they were really neat. I think taking your mouse away from combat might be a bad idea but so is fumbling with your pinky so the option would be nice.

[@anthonyriego659]

I like the concept of using voice commands for alerting teammates of a Sniper or a stickytraps, advice of been careful, if they are ready and saying sorry. This gaves personality to players in game.

[@wilsonweiseng6485]

Demoman: look both way before you cross! Sniper: okay mate *walks into sight line and dies anyway*

[@KyleBrownIsALoser]

An alternative to the 1-9 menu is to give us a "radial" menu like the buy menu in CS:GO, It basically gives you more voice commands to use, makes your finger stretch less and is friendlier for controllers. Just hold down Z, X, C, and hover over with your mouse to say the voice line. The only downside is it locks your view while using it, but depending on how fast you are with your mouse movements, this won't be that much of an issue. As for additional voice commands, I think "Hello!", "Goodbye", "Laugh", "Retreat!", "Insult", "Defend!", and "OK" would be pretty useful

[@iminumst7827]

In that line of thinking, I'd also like to see a radial menu option for the disguise kit.

[@maitele]

It likely wouldn't stop view for more than a few tenths of a second. Rust players use a radial menu to build and they can be so quick that you barely see the menu come up before they've performed the action. Radials are also generally more familiar to most players nowadays anyway, as well

[@IAmAGyroGamer]

As someone who plays TF2 with the Steam Deck and PS4 controllers, you can create radial menus with Steam Input. It's common to use them on touchpads.

[@cloverlovania]

isnt "jeer" basically "insult" ? i mean iirc jeer is booing but thats basically an insult also "ok" would just be "yes", unless you mean to say it like "everything's okay/clear" and also the "laugh" would just be a not-as-good, free schadenfreude but the radial menu idea seems cool :]

[@jollygrapefruit786]

Sniper has a voice com for "Incoming" and he fucking whispers it. No one can hear it, not even you, if there's literally any other sound happening around you. Pretty god damn detrimental when you're trying to warn your team of an incoming kritz/Uber.

[@Rended_]

Voice Commands in TF2 have always seemed like a strange case to me.

[@spacecatsftw]

great blue has always seemed like a strange case to me

[@quoogynuts]

tf2 youtuber reference real

[@Rended_]

@@quoogynuts No effing way

[@BROMALGAMATE8011]

@@Rended_ On the one hand, if you wanna call for help but don't wanna call for a Medic specifically, it's nice to have options.

[@medic6994]

If there was a "trap ahead" voiceline, someone would absolutely have the mercs say "trap ahead" and then show like astolfo or something

[@DoABarrelRol1l]

even better.

[@medic6994]

WHOOOO YEAH BABY THATS WHAT IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THATS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT

[@PinkAndPathetic]

Sounds like a W for me

[@taraktaras7327]

imagine if there was a short video of a few mercs (probably BLU) move foward then stop and say "trap ahead!" with the next scene showing a shack full of floating "premium" stuff with the "Medic!" few second sound effect and then one of the mercs walk towards it as the song continues to play but suddenly cut out when they immediately die from touching the trap. The other players would then schandefure

[@LizardOfOz]

"Get Back!" command would be really useful, because "Incoming!" often sounds more like "Get Ready!" rather than "Retreat!"

[@DoABarrelRol1l]

I do use as both so I can see the need for a seperation.

[@covetousix]

i'd love a simple "hello" command too

[@seagull4026]

There should be a "group up with me" voice line. I play a lot of medic and it's frustrating when your teammates distance themselves so you can't overheal them. Having a voice line like this that encourages players to group up and ultimately attack together could work nicely.

[@VarskDarkness]

I think a really good voice command idea would be a "Behind you!" or "Go Back!" voice command. There's been countless times where there's been enemies behind my teammates and my teammates are completely oblivious and are still pushing forward, it's especially noticeable if you play Medic for an extended period of time. Would also be a good command to stop people backcapping or ninjaneers.

[@Portal2Player]

The sniper callout one would be the easiest to implement, as there are already all of the classes yelling sniper in MVM. Just adding the ability to call that out independently like calling out a spy would be easy to add.

[@StockTM]

Same as the ready command.

[@Dafuqinator7]

I think taking notes from voice commands from CS: Source would be interesting. Things like "Follow me" and "Fall back" woul definitely help with coordination.

[@iminumst7827]

"Incoming!" is TF2's fall back, but a follow me would be a good one.

[@Ningflingslinger]

The "Ubercharge Ready" command specific to Medic could be a class-sensitive command that changes according to which class you're using. Like it changing to "I'm low on metal!" for Engineer or maybe "I'm going ahead!" for Scout. In addition, I feel like the "I'm low on ammo!" command should have been a staple command since the beginning.

[@ArmmoonPE]

A good change would be for the "Pass to me!" voice line to also be usable in ctf to ask for the intel

[@quoogynuts]

Tbh that's what I thought it was for before this video

[@2naaa_]

I actually have my Mouse 4 button bound specifically for the "Sentry ahead!" command and basically use it as the suggested "Careful" command because I've found that whether there's actually a sentry ahead or not, people will be more vigilant of what's ahead if they hear that command.

[@viperforty8450]

The help being replaced with pass to me could actually be done by looking at ally with the flag and tapping help, like you do it with calling out spies. It would not interfere with original help at all and will allow you to cram one more command there

[@SkylanderGacha]

The "trap ahead" one is a really good command. Its likes the "sentry" one

[@pchris]

I honestly really like Overwatch's radial coms menu. It's quick, easy, visual with icons for each aciton, and you could easily still make the number keys still do something.

[@drucy.]

The "go left" and "go right" are incredibly usefull in MvM to warn about flanking robots without losing time by tiping in chat.

[@xxlikeabossxx8017]

Frrrrr

[@Hunter1393B]

I always used the sentry ahead for snipers so my team knows not to peek, though it needs a bit more use for others to get it right away, the sticky trap also works. Sorry and ready voices would be great for advanced basic communication

[@a.person1805]

I love voice lines! I remember being a new player and spamming them, but then I got self concious about filling the chat. Later, I saw a youtube video that mentioned masking uber, and figured that'd be a solid excuse to spam them! I really like your ideas, only change I'd make is turning those first 3 into a general "Watch Out" command. People already use the Sentry Ahead voiceline for that, and it works pretty well! Then you'd only have to remove the pass to me command

[@The_Chillton]

I think the best idea would to actually let people rebind/reorganize the existing menus alongside your new additions. People create new vscript menus all the time with servers, can't be that hard to ask the client to make one.

[@clarksonpuff7352]

CS:GO has a "Loadout" section of the Inventory where you can swap out certain guns with alternative ones or with skins you have. Something similar could be implemented for voice lines where the user has full control over the order of the voicelines (say you main Medic and having Medic-related voicelines more accessible would make your life a little easier).

[@aoooso6000]

in my opinion a simple enemy ahead voice line would be very useful especially if it told you what class it is also changing the hud to circle simler to l4d

[@Yamaleev]

On the topic of communication, the ability to ping locations or players would also be a neat way to add some flavour. Btw excellent video as always man, great to see you getting more recognition. ♥

[@bemzefat3385]

no one wants a competitive tf2

[@iminumst7827]

Pings? TF2 is at it's core a 12 v 12 game. Pings work great in a game like Apex where you only have 2 other teammates. But in TF2 pings would probably cause more confusion than anything.

[@naverick22]

I think the "careful" voiceline is already synonymous with "incoming" as a means of giving people a heads up. I would also suggest an "[enemy] 's low" line as a means to tell teammates that an enemy is at low health (kind of like pointing at someone that's a spy), and even if they're not it could encourage pushes (or troll teammates).

[@weirdgamer9566]

the "careful" command is basically telling your team to take a breather with their aggressiveness, "incoming" is when the enemy is making a push

[@marketplier272]

I think a "hold your ground" command would be useful aswell, for example to tell your team to prepare for an enemy push / uber or to not scatter and stay together when playing the objective

[@tiberiustiberius]

Very well done video. It's amazing how you found a distinct video topic and the script is well written.

[@ZaTrapu]

It is possible to increase the amount of voice lines with the 3 two-button combination by going the Stardew route and add voice for pressing the 0, -, and =. They don't do anything by default. Which brings the the amount of voice commands from 26 because C+9 doesn't do anything to 36. Fun fact: there are 10 weapon categories but the 7 to 0 ones go unused despite the code for it existing according to the wiki

[@AtomizerBaT]

6:22: Here are some ideas for a "Careful" line for each merc: Scout: "Ayo watch out ahead!" Demo: "Ay! Ahead be rough!" Heavy: "Be! Carrful!" Engineer: "Up ahead!" Medic: "Careful!"

[@jackhumphries1087]

I have some ideas for sorry using voice lines that already exist: Engineer: sorry m’am Demo: I did wha’ a’ could! Pyro: (some “mmmhf” sound that has the right syllables for “sorry”)

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

I'd love a "Sorry!" command honestly.

[@turd2937]

6:56 i feel like the "Go Go Go" voice command already works for this

[@MorbidMindedManiac]

I would like an option to make the voice command menu more like the voice menu in Left 4 Dead, where you swipe your mouse in a certain direction to choose from a wheel of commands

[@noah-ux2cz]

Your videos are great but my favourite part about them is your spot on editing. I love looking at your videos it’s so nice

[@MadamLava094]

"Go Go Go" already gets used in the same role as the hypothetical "Ready!", but more clarity would be nice

[@Onehandguy]

A pinging system like valorant’s would be so useful for quick communication! you could quickly ping the location of an engineer nest or ping a spot that is dangerous to go through such as a sniper sightline or a group of enemies with only one button.

[@____2114]

On the topic of not wanted to stretch to hit the 6+ keys, I think you should be able to use the scroll wheel to, y’know, scroll through the menu, then press down on the scroll wheel to select what you want. Also could work for disguising as spy. To the issue of weapon switching, just as long as you have the menu open, you don't change weapons. I think it should also be able to be turned off in settings.

[@sniper_monke561]

that could interfere with weapon switching though

[@____2114]

@@sniper_monke561 I thought of that, I meant only after opening the menu, could also work for disguising as spy.

[@nathanfivecoate5848]

I don't like the idea too much though admittedly that's in part due to me binding scroll up to my primary and scroll down to secondary, with melee being mouse 3

[@____2114]

@@nathanfivecoate5848 Well thats why I think its a setting you can turn off or on, its just an option for those who want it

[@thegamerFOX45]

i would actually love how this would turn out and even if valve likes it who knows if the voice actors of tf2 can still do their voices, would be funny to hear a friendly heavy say sorry all the time and with the bots saying "sniper ahead!" its gonna save you getting killed

[@lucaZER0]

having to say incoming when i noticed a couple of enemies heading my teams way really needs to be specified. like "an enemy group is heading this way" or "their medic has full uber"

[@lucaZER0]

also yea i think ready? should be a voice line. so many times when i had a medic or myself as medic having to say go go go in order for them to go in. but nobody seems to listen to that command :/

[@The24thWight]

This is a fantastic video. I feel like the only time I see pass to me used is on CTF maps where a scout wants to be the runner.

[@hiveknight7416]

As a part time medic main who uses the go left and go right often to direct my pocket to the ideal exit point on dustbowl spawn, I think you're overlooking how useful they can be

[@ExoTheFlyingFish]

I think what you're looking for is a Left 4 Dead 2 vocalizer, but in Team Fortress 2. I've been playing a ton of Left 4 Dead 2 recently with a vocalizer mod, and I'm just overwhelmed by how many different voice lines there are. Callouts for every special infected, all in one menu. Things like "be careful," "follow me," "stick close," they're all really great ways to communicate if you don't have (or feel like using) a mic. I think that if you could literally take Ion's Vocalizer (the mod I use) and port it to TF2 with some modifications for different content (i.e. special infected -> mercenaries), it would be perfect. That being said, I have 16 keys bound to menus of 9 different voicelines each (and that's just the ones that work in official servers), and that's a lot to memorize. Maybe we could have something a little more stripped-down for TF2. In addition (and finally), it's worth noting that the L4D2 vocalizers are radial menus that require you to hold down the button (in this case, Z, X, and C), move your mouse in the direction of the voice line you want to use, and let go of the button (or click). This takes away your ability to look around, shoot, and shove (or alt-fire in TF2), if only for a second. At higher-level play, I doubt this would matter much given that players would likely do it so fast, it wouldn't take more than a few frames. But it would definitely introduce a steeper learning curve. That's my take on this concept. Would be interested to hear others' thoughts.

[@Regaltf]

congrats with almost 15k,amazing video.keep up the good work!

[@Hunter1393B]

I mostly used the left and right commands by mistake while trying to say yes or nice shot so yeah i wouldn't mind losing them

[@creeperminer125]

Dude... Love the editing, you did a hecc of a job!

[@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth]

What we could REALLY use is just an updated interface for voice commands. Being able to pull up a wheel by holding the button seems like the most obvious solution.

[@StopThisIsBatCountry]

People forget the usefulness of key modifier binds, something not natively available in source, but you can write some sophisticated scripts with aliases and binds to have multiple commands on the same key with a modifier. I use the SHIFT key for that, e.g. i can press E for "Medic!" and SHIFT+E for "Activate Charge!" (or "Ubercharge ready" if i am Medic).

[@hoovysimulator2518]

As other people have said, there already exist voicelines that could be used for "Sniper ahead". From my own experience not many people seem to know or care about some commands as people don't seem to realize when I use "Hit the uber charge" as medic that I wanna uber whoever I'm healing. I would also love the addition of user defined time limit to voicecommands, as I hate the cooldown and would love if saying "pootis" was easier (or other voicecommand shenanigans)

[@coonker95]

nice editing, nice narration, well made points, nice suggestions and really nice frags, damn you good

[@aduckwalkeduptoalemonadestand]

In TC2 there’s a voice command only for medic called “Uber charge ready”

[@beefufo]

Your level of editing is something i strive for

[@vamborr]

your skin choice is superb, I envy your strange potent poison weapons

[@singleNim]

There's already a hotkey for calling to pass the jack in PASS Time, it's +attack3 which defaults to the scroll wheel button (press the scroll wheel down instead of scrolling). This makes the manual "pass to me" voice command redundant. Don't diss Pass Time, it's fun when I find a server with it once a year or so... I don't remember where I read it, but Valve basically had to abandon Pass Time as a game mode because it was made by Bad Robot and they no longer have a contract for further development. That's why no new Pass Time maps have ever been added, either from Valve or from the community. Really sucks because when I found out, I had already been in the middle of designing a cool new Halloween map for it. Pass Time and arena are the truly dead parts of TF2.

[@william3371]

"The world's primary source of unnecessary problems is failure to properly prevent and mitigate misunderstanding." - William Strohmetz

[@C.A._Old]

*Nobody Talks About Cut Voice Lines From Game Since 2007-Present.*

[@DogeisCut]

Hey that's awesome! I also had the idea of a "Sorry!" voice command! Glad someone agrees that it'd be a good addition!

[@mercurymysprite]

I've just always used "Sentry Ahead" whenever there's danger ahead, be it a sniper, trap or enemy group around a corner. I agree putting the "ready" commands in pvp somehow would be quite useful, though.

[@jacklocklear8546]

you didnt have to just give us all depression with Rick May like that, brother

[@jollygrapefruit786]

I remember i bound every key surrounding my movement keys to certain voice comms like 5 years ago. I even had a little sticky note with squares drawn on it stuck to the bottom left corner of my monitor to remind myself of which keys said what. 5 years and several laptops/PCs later, whenever I install TF2 on a new system those voice comms are still there. I've checked my configs and the autoexec file isn't even cloud saved, but somehow stream remembers. Idk how, but honestly it's really nice not to ever have to script them again.

[@Billo_1013]

Honestly the only command I felt like was lacking is "Behind you!" Yes, you can spam Spy! for that but it doesn't really work especially cuz people instinctively start spy checking instead of expecting Medic and his Pocket to be flanking and stuff Or they just may think you're goofing since Spy! is somewhat of a local meme in TF2 community I find it hard to keep people's attention on their back but other than that I think the current voice lines are fine and nice

[@AE1OU]

Honestly a modern update would be a scroll wheel for voice commands like in many modern games. Can implement the same scroll wheel interface for both taunts and spy disguise kit as well. Even better is if you can customize your scroll wheel and add or remove which command you want in whichever orientation of the wheel to fit your preferences.

[@MACKYBOY-41]

The sniper holding down an area one the one where I've had the most situations where I had a quick command for it. And I've found myself using "incoming" as a sort of substitute for "careful". It is not really the same. I think these ideas are pretty agreed upon as good.

[@ZoomVA]

For the voice command concise menu if you have an alias you can basically bind them to any button on your keyboard using say a side button as a toggle/switch whenever you press it so you dont lose functionality as well, thats what i do. Its similar to how some people have nades setup for csgo

[@saladplainzone]

6:08 this was my exact hitsound for like half a year LOL

[@datenegassie]

Swapping out Go Left / Go Right with your new suggestions would be a huge improvement, but I will say that I *have* used those directional lines effectively before (once). We were playing upward, I go to the enemy and asked them nicely to Go Left (off the cliff), and they did.

[@zer0ishere]

you dont understand, as a medic main i NEED that stickie voice command. you dont know how much it hurts to see the floor covered in stickies while not having the ability to deal with them

[@grittytenacious6004]

I would’ve liked a final graph of what it would look like with your new voice lines. Adhd is mf when it comes to visual representation. Great video!

[@alejandropetit6573]

The sorry command would be especially good, like when I accidentally kill someone while trying to be friendly

[@AleK0451]

incoming already fills the role that a careful line would

[@Haayes]

There could be something like overwatch's ping system, press g while pointing at an enemy and it will notify the team of their presence, pointing it towards a teammate tells them to come over, pointing towards the point will tell to attack/push, etc.

[@whalek]

I would also appreciate one for "you're welcome", it's a bit more niche, granted, but I'd still like to see it implemented

[@Lethal_Spoon]

the best thing we have for “enemies ahead” is “sentry ahead” and “incoming” which do very little to communicate that

[@trevanl4449]

One idea I've had for a while would be to include speech bubbles for the "place building here" commands when you're playing engineer, similar to how medic players can see speech bubbles above teammates' heads when they call for medic. Something like a stylized version of the building above a downward arrow. It'd make it a lot more obvious for new players when a more experienced teammate is trying to give them advice, especially if they're building far enough away from a good spot they might not hear the voice line but could see the speech bubble.

[@gummycubez]

I imagine turning the chat commands into a radial would probably help as well, being able to hold down either button that each menu has then just flick your wrist or press the button and it'd be a pretty quick and painless way to do it.

[@Fluxuation]

Can I just say the clip at 0:10 was absolutely awesome?

[@FredbearOfficial]

"And in fact, I've already have a good starting point in mind" **Seamless ad cut** "Litter robot?" "Litter robot." "Liter robot..."

[@TitanMaster4554]

I like these ideas, especially the sorry command and all the mercs even say sorry in at least one line except the Heavy, but he does say Sorry in the Poker Night Out game, so that's easy to rip for the command, and if not, voice AI is a thing.

[@roytheidiot4844]

I would like a “Flank!” command to tell a teammate to flank. And also a “Enemy Flanking!” to warn teammates of a scout flanking of a push happening in a flank route.

[@broska705]

i think a voice command to retreat would be useful when the enemy medic uses uber or the other team do a cordinated push