Yeah dw the randomized nature of voice lines makes it hard to tell, but she’s got a few about taking them as part of her piloting duties and some more that imply recreational use as well iirc
She says she prefers the stuff coming through her rebreather too.
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No.
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Warhammer 40k was doing quips, witticisms and satire on contemporary society and trends way before MCU was even a thing.
Maybe British humour isn’t your thing? You may not like it, and that’s your prerogative, but neither is it particularly out of place either.
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The jolly attitude is out of place.
WH40k Inquisitor Martyr really nailed the grim dark tone and its humor is spot on. The characters are so overly serious and can deliver their lines in such a ham-fisted way, which the developers were intent on. Its something to constantly grin at and even laugh out loud some times. THAT is subtlety.
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I vote we make her a servitor.
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We had that discussion allready.
And again I have to ask:
Why the hell not? In an Imperium consisting of a million worlds, sometimes having been isolated for millenia and just recently been reunited with Terra (even today, as it’s still the Rogue Traders job…), you think everybody speaks proper Low Gothik? Here on Earth/Terra, this small ball in space, we have so many languages … some soo different…
In the Imperium there still exist different languages, for example on Nostramo (check the Nightlord-Novels).
And the fact, that zhey come up for every planet with a different word for “f*ck” (gak, feth, karkin’,…) is a representation for different dialects in Low Gothik.
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Right? I don’t get why people are hung up on her accent. It’s tens of thousands of years in the future on a distant world, in a hive city of untold billions that likely would have an uncountable number of its own unique and possibly mutually unintelligible languages spread throughout thousands of hive levels each the size of entire nations. Doesn’t bother me in the least, genuinely don’t get the issue.
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Why do some people get so upset about Masozi’s accent? I personally know the answer, so the question is rhetorical. But it makes absolutely no sense.
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Oh, do you? Please share.
It clearly doesn’t make sense to you, so I clarified it.
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As if accents and language would make any difference in the discussion, but if you wish to, here we go:
I live in Germany, some 80 million inhabitants.
We have at least as many accents/dialects within the country as we have states (yeah we are a federal republic), I’d even go as far as to say regions, some are even to native German speakers unintelligable (looking at you Bavarian, Swabs, Voigtlanders).
And as accents are created by the fact that speakers have a different native language, and we agreed that there in fact are different languages in the Imperium, your artificial differential point is worthless.
And you should understand, any form of language in the games/books/movies is just a try to get immersive.
Nobody speaks English or Latin in the far future, it’s a representation for us M2ers… so you just cannot say WH40K has to be European.
The Emperor is a Turk, High Gothik is a mixture of Asian and English languages as most technical dicuments have been written in those languages in the past …
(If I remember correctly, could also be the Lingua Technica).
So Masozi has in fact no African accent but one that is represented by one … no problem with that at all, and I do not see any artificial “wokeness” here, if that is what you aim for.
And the fact that in the past games/books/movies have been Euro-centric proofes nothing from my point of view.
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Gonna be real honest, that sounds a lot more like projection than anything else. Languages, accents, and linguistic diversity would be far more extravagant in 40k than anything we’d experience today, and often is referenced as such, with High Gothic’s Faux-latin being described as a placeholder stand-in for whatever they actually speak as opposed to the literal 41st lingua franca. We’ve had characters with all sorts of accents in various 40k games. Nobody seemed upset at Inquisitor Toth’s african-esque accent in the original Dawn of War game 20 years ago.
If a single character with a west african accent tens of thousands of years in the future amongst untold teeming trillions of people across a million or more worlds is what triggers a reaction, I’m going to suggest it’s not a lore issue.
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But why would that accent survive and not any other ?
Heck we have German accents in game, is it problematic also ?
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The cast evolved, in VT1 they were companions of unfortune, so they weren’t really friendly with each other, while in VT2 they have fought with each other for a couple of years by this point.
Make sense that Kerillian would mellow out
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Accents and tastes aside, one of Darktide’s problems in my opinion is that the cast of supporting characters is too large, especially for a game that has only recently begun to develop its own plot. I would have preferred fewer characters, but more fleshed out ones. A line of dialogue or two isn’t enough.
Personally I only like Hadron and, after the Twins mission, Rannick - the others are forgettable or insufferable, especially the ones trying desperately to look badass.
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" She is subordinate to Explicator Zola, Sergeant Major Morrow, Interrogator Rannick, and, of course Inquisitor Grendyl, subsequently needing authorization from one to approve any personal missions."
This aside.
All of the “managers” are pretty… eh.
They rarely seem to hit the tone right. Only the new one from the mercantile area sounds remotely interesting.
Hallowette is just constant reminder of the middle finger this game is to my wallet.
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Well as I just get the “Edit”-option opening the links, I need to question what would be the proof of this statement? In which statement within the game is that said? I could just add in stuff to the articles and you would quote me to proof a point?
He sounds like Zazu from the Lion King. Just sayin.
Ultimately I don’t care.
I was just curious so I went to check the wiki.
Just leaving the info there.
Ranking from a military organisation might not correspond as they all differ.
Length of service in the Inquisition could also matter.
Well for Rannick and Zola it’s obv, they are named as their ranks.
For Melk and Morrow we can guess that they are the Primes, Rejects for Morrow and Auric for Melk) with Melk also being a Legate.
Masozi for what we know outrank us, but isn’t a Prime, unless she is for the Aviator units.