Darktide Promised Thousands of Voice Lines for Characters...so where are they?

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As per the topic. The lines repeat a lot. I would say there is less interesting interactions and voice line lore than in V2. Is it a bug as we had in V2, or just another marketing lie?

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Well yeah. Did you not notice none of the female characters get any unique lines? They just repeat the same lines the male characters have.

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It’s probably in the same category as the “Dan Abnett writes the story” announcement.

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They are either inside all the planned missions that haven’t been finished/released yet.

Or

They are counting every single call out as a unique line/dialogue. This means stuff like oh, ah, ouch, uhf, I’m dying, sniper!, Ismell a pox walker, I need ammo!, medpack!

Could really be either, since they count mk version of weapons as unique weapons, which most of us probably wouldn’t.

I would still bet it’s the first one though, since I doubt they’ll callback voice actors from time to time to record new voice lines for a single mission or two every other month.
It would make more sense if they have written dialogue and story for 1-2years of content and recorded all of it and simply building the stuff now.

A good example is the tutorial, which was probably recorded a long time ago, but since than the game has changed and some of it is just bs now. Probably not worth having the voice actors come back and read again, easier to just let us realize it is bs or cut it out and add text tutorial.

Gotta remember that each class has 6 different voice actors. 4 classes. That’d be 24 actors to call in and read for every new mission. That is a lot of planing and scheduling.
I’m not sure if some of them do morethanone voice but still.
Imagine a single day for each actor, that’s still a month to record for one mission, half a month if they manage to go through two a day. Then there are probably lines from npcs, which might be 1-5 actors. Stuff adds up.

So odds are all of this was recorded a long time ago and is just waiting to be used. We’ve most likely paid for content coming over the coming months, not just for small amount we can play now.
At least I hope so.