In contrary, I felt it’s only just natural - as in this game we play for scum of the Earth, some society’s rejects, former criminals, deserters, lowborn people. The way how characters react to all those things in DT is what you may see in actual trenches of brutal wars, where soldiers have already got completely insensitive to horrors and inhuman conditions they’ve been in for years, and just laugh it all off, shield themselves with cynicism or fanatical faith, and find little pleasures in small everyday things. It feels much more real than a “typical” warhammer 40k depictions of people, which I always tend to consider an Imperial propaganda
I know that the existence of background choices is just “fluff,” nevertheless, depending on what background options you choose, you are/are not a criminal or a lowborn, but I get your point.
Yea, but still we are supposed to assume they’ve come a long way since being fresh inquisition rookies who has never seen a Beast of Nurgle before. May be FS could do a better job emphasizing it, like adding a couple story shorts between the initial opening act and your first mission in game, explaining that before you even got on that 1st mission, you’ve been through a lot and had enough time to get accustomed to what Inquisition deals with.
I for one appreciate all three of the Male voices, but the closest one to fit that “you are all scum and will receive your mandated mercy sanctionings”-type vibe to me was the Maul. Yeah some of his stuff can be a touch on the goofy side, but as for the rest he just sounds like he’s been chain-smoking from the moment he got up for the day, and some of his lines are cold.
I think the best way to sum up the personality and what probably cemented it as my personal favourite are the Break the Line voicelines.
Horde of armour rocking up in front and a battering ram of a man guturally roaring
MOVE
as an agni comes crashing down on their skulls. Just can’t beat it. Although, “KNEEL” or “SUBMIT” do come close.
Pair that with the voicelines for the dog, “KILL”, “MANDATED EDICT: MAULING”, “DRAG IT DOWN” etc., as the best boy instantly rockets itself through the horde to tear off a special’s epidermis… it’s too good.
On top of that, some genuinely nice bonding stuff I’ve heard (well, when the conversations decide to work and not abruptly stop after the first line, they’ve kinda completely borked it this patch)… the angry gentleman does indeed have some depth.
All that is to say, I do agree with the OP that quite a few of the lines are generic and shared between the voices and I’d prefer it if they were a bit more varied, but I believe the VA work is fantastic more often than not.
It did for me, at least. Maybe there were a few witty jokes I missed in the few levels I played, but Caedo seemed pretty friggin’ serious about caving some daemon skulls in. Maybe the humor is in how absurd it is for a single Space Marine to wipe out basically a whole planet of daemons and chaos marines?
Strongly agree. I’m old enough to remember how we criticised the original voice lines, and banter, when comparing to VT2. This just feels pretty poor. Atm I hope that we are facing some buggy banter triggers, but so far I have heard is really poor.
Even the girls 
