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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95175] Wed, 26 May 2004 11:15 Go to previous messageGo to next message
ianmatthes is currently offline ianmatthes

 
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Quote:
Originally posted by Philippe:
No one mentions Trevor ? I always play with Trevor cause he's so good at lockpicking, and his (scottish ? irish ?) accent is excellent.
Sorry for the last reply, as I posted before typing. Trevor is definitely the first purchase to be able to walk through any door, save explosives, and his Marksmanship picks up nicely. I would always pull for Lynx on a rooftop to support a Stealth/NightOps back-up.

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95176] Wed, 26 May 2004 11:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Khor1255 is currently offline Khor1255

 
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I like Trevor as well. But I don't use him right away because his greatest assets (hard lockpicking and trap detection) are usually only neccessary later in the game and he is rather expensive. Early in the game my lockpicker is Steroid and my trap sniffer is Len. Len is perhaps just as good at trap detection as Trevor but it's helpful to have lockpicking combined with defusing traps.
Trevor's accent is Australian or New Zelander. I'm leaning toward Australian but not having visited that part of the world don't know for sure.

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95177] Wed, 26 May 2004 21:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
TheScreenJockey is currently offline TheScreenJockey

 
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Trevor is from Australia. Proedit can verify this, as can his large picture with the fameous opera house in Sydney in the background.

But of course, the voice-acting can be from another place enteriely Very Happy

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95178] Thu, 27 May 2004 09:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Sarge McSarge is currently offline Sarge McSarge

 
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Trevor is definitly an Australian. No self respecting New Zealander would talk like he does (most Australians wouldn't either) Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy


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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95179] Tue, 22 June 2004 05:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
TrooperThorn is currently offline TrooperThorn

 
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I like Ayanna, Rude Dog and Postie. Postie has some humorous lines.

It's ironic how Ayanna can be a killer while lamenting at the same time about killing somebody.

Morgan is also another interesting new merc, but doesn't really say much.

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95180] Tue, 22 June 2004 06:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I like Morgan's line: "It's a dog eat dog world!"

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95181] Tue, 22 June 2004 19:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Hawke is currently offline Hawke

 
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I like all the new recruitable I've met so far.

My favorite ? Rosebud. He is nice and funny. He is wiser than he looks. His speech when you meet him cracks me up : "I check boxes, I load boxes... I'm a stock enginer." or something like that. I've been doing that too, and that sounded right ! I also love it when he asks you if he can go and see Betty : "Pretty, please ?". LOL !

And he hits hard, too. Smile

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95182] Wed, 23 June 2004 00:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Hawke is currently offline Hawke

 
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Originally posted by Sweeper the mercenary:
Also Love Rude's comments, try making him talk to himself, use the talk function on him, made me laugh.
How do you do that exactly ? I only get the "fist" or "target" icon when I click on one of my mercs.

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95183] Wed, 23 June 2004 01:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
TrooperThorn is currently offline TrooperThorn

 
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Select your merc. Then right click. A box with various action icons will pop up. One of the icons is a pair of lips. Click on that. The merc will speak.

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95184] Thu, 24 June 2004 05:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
cougar

 
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Originally posted by Khor1255:

I think Ayanna is great. Her French accent is due to the fact that she took Flo's place and all her comments are Flo based. And you're right about the Israeli thing. I'm pretty sure she's taken directly from the Clancy game where she was Israeli special forces I believe.
Yup Sayeret Mat'kal and later Mossad, BUT in the games she is part of the multinational (UN) strike force Rainbow, for background and facts read Tom Clancys books. BTW to you clancy fans out there, i dont think Ayana along with some others were mentioned in any of the books.

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95185] Thu, 24 June 2004 06:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The female operators in the game were added because of political correctness i'm sure , not sure about all the male operators being in the book . Only made it to page 200 before TC's writing forced me to quit .

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95186] Thu, 24 June 2004 21:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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[/QUOTE]Yup Sayeret Mat'kal and later Mossad, BUT in the games she is part of the multinational (UN) strike force Rainbow, for background and facts read Tom Clancys books. [/QB][/QUOTE]

Ayana is a playable character in Rainbow Six part 3 Ravenshield. I usually give her a Dragunov and a silenced H&K and let her pop heads just like in UC. But in UC she has snipertraits while in Rainbow Six she is qualified as a Close Quarter Combat expert.

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95187] Fri, 25 June 2004 05:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
yellow is currently offline yellow

 
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I've only take a quarter of the map but my favorite new merc so far is Tex. The idea of an asian cowboy is quite amusing to me.

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95188] Fri, 25 June 2004 07:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
TrooperThorn is currently offline TrooperThorn

 
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I enjoy Tex. I keep looking for Hamous. Is he in UC?

The funny thing about Tex in UC, he has made a statement something like "I do not feel you appreciate my efforts." or something to that effect just out of the blue. The first time he said it I scrambled to see if I had forgot to pay him or something. He is funny to me.

I also just recruited the robot. This will be the first time I used it.

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95189] Fri, 25 June 2004 08:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Larynx

 
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Originally posted by TrooperThorn:
I keep looking for Hamous. Is he in UC?
Hamous was replaced by Postie. Postie will occasionally come out with some of Hamous' lines (e.g. Naughty man!) which they apparently forgot to replace.

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95190] Fri, 25 June 2004 12:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ayana is currently offline Ayana

 
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I've also been using Reaper in the later game. I've never used him before and his comments are of a more intellectual sort.

Reaper and Lynx playing up on the roof with sniper rifles have been doing a great job!

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95191] Sat, 26 June 2004 00:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
TrooperThorn is currently offline TrooperThorn

 
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Ah too bad about Hamous. I suppose he wasn't one of the more popular mercs.

I just started using Reaper too. His spill about sleep is funny, albeit long winded. Sleep is like death.

Lots of fun this UC mod.

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95192] Wed, 21 July 2004 16:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
ianmatthes is currently offline ianmatthes

 
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Registered:May 2004
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Quote:
Originally posted by TrooperThorn:
I like Ayanna, Rude Dog and Postie. Postie has some humorous lines.

It's ironic how Ayanna can be a killer while lamenting at the same time about killing somebody.

Morgan is also another interesting new merc, but doesn't really say much.
While Ayanna may have read too much Celine, she is a perfect pair with Biff for kicking out a ton of militia in a hurry. For the occasionally attack by the opponents, she can hold her own if you leave her on the roof tops to train the troops. Ce le guerre, ce l'amour, ce le merde...

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95193] Mon, 02 August 2004 21:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
FastZ is currently offline FastZ

 
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For me Ivan is the best. Accurate at 94%, strong, silent and a medic.
And of course Wolf, because of his cool karate figthing style.

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95194] Tue, 03 August 2004 02:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
LordDario is currently offline LordDario

 
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Man, UC is so much fun Smile I havent gotten far, I am slow-take-my-time kind of player. I like to stop and smell the roses and progress slowly. Right now I have Calisto and Galileo under my control.

The new mercs are great. The use of the IMP voice for Jubilee and Morgan is fine and provides a professional sound. A tip on which voices are used would be nice for new players so they dont duplicate the waves.

I like Rude Dog, but I edited his traits and made him a auto expert. As I have stated elsewhere, he seems more gun nut to me than NO/stealthy guy - I get that from reading your posts over the past few years Rude Smile

I LOVE TEX!! Ambi and camo with NVG he is PWNING with two agrams!! I hired Fox just because he is doing so well to work along side him, plus Tex has a crush on her Smile

My new favorite, Morgan!! I barely paid attention to him when I first hired him, then I found that Maching gun that makes the awesome sounds (cant remember the name of it) and HOLY MACKERAL Morgan is bursting the heck out of that large clip racking up kills like crazy. He makes daytime ops TOO easy for me! (I have a dayops squad and a NO squad).

Ayana - too overpowered, low cost, love flo's waves, but I let her go. Had I known about her ahead of time I would have toned her down.

I am regretting editing in proedit a lot of the aim mercs. I started out trying to revert them back to JA2 original, but ended up changing too much .. like I made Grunty to NO/auto instead of his old JA2 skills NO/HW, Blood to NO/throwing instead of throwing/MA, Wolf to NO/lockpicking instead of NO/teaching, Fox to stealthy/ambi instead of ambi/teaching. It seemed cool at the time, but has affected the difficulty of the game considerably making it far less challenging, even on expert.

Oh well, when the patch comes out and I can get Elhi I will start a new game!!

LONG LIVE THE MOD SQUAD!!!

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95195] Tue, 03 August 2004 06:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Khor1255 is currently offline Khor1255

 
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Thanx for leading the way in admitting you haven't finished yet. I haven't either! It's too cool a mod to just rush or cheat you're way through and frankly I'm getting my core mercs whacked trying to play 'fair'.
I've edited the hell out of many mercs (mainly their prices and to bring their stats back to original settings in most cases). It's great to have Len's evolution at normal! The built in utilities was such a cool idea.
Thanx 50 more times guys! This mod is worth more than every game I've bought since Ja2 (and UB) combined!

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95196] Tue, 03 August 2004 07:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
LordDario is currently offline LordDario

 
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By "buit in utilities" you mean Proedit, right Khor?

Or do the UC utilities have something new I need to check out? Smile

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95197] Tue, 03 August 2004 13:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Khor1255 is currently offline Khor1255

 
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Yes I meant Proedit. I've had ongoing problems installing Proedit and the Beta Editor and since one is already in UC and the other in the Utilities add on loads without a problem I'm now able to seiously work with this great game. For that I'm very grateful to the Mod Squad.

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95198] Tue, 03 August 2004 17:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
FastZ is currently offline FastZ

 
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At last you are right LordDario. I never edit because it takes all the suprises out.
And yes, LONG LIVE THE MOD SQUAD!!

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95199] Sat, 14 August 2004 11:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Insomniac308 is currently offline Insomniac308
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A few random thoughts.

As to getting voices from other games:
Go low tech. Just record them as they play (tape or digital) then import them and convert to whatever format you want. Granted, it would be time consuming to have to play the game to the point where they say something, but if your playing it anyway just record a half hour or so and then go back and pick out the moments you want.

Favorite Characters:
There's some new guy (Morgan I think?) who is an auto weapons specialist, decent mech. and can apply first aid. He is awesome with the russian SAW that fires the ammo in the silver drum mags( can't think of what it is right now).Almost every time he hits an enemy with every shot! Plus he's strong enough to carry lots of ammo and other necessities like a grenade launcher and it's ammo. I pair him up with Grizzly carrying the same rifle and a morter launcher with 4-6 morters. There's not too much that can get close enough to them before they're cut down to cuase many problems.
But I still like my Night Ops/Stealth IMP. After punching cows and getting his strength and dexterity into the 90's, along with many solo sector attacks that have boosted his Markmenship to 100 and his Agility into the 90's as well as respectable Mechanical, Medical, and Explosive stats from constant use, how could I not have him as my favorite? The only drawback he has is an average Health. I haven't figured out what to do to raise it during gameplay. Other then that, he's an amazing merc and he's free! I've never found it neccessary to shell out the bucks for the high end mercs, although I have tried them out. They drain too much of my finacial resources, limiting air travel and equipment purchases. In the original version, I found Igor and Thor to be quiet and competant enough with their low prices to make hiring Magic and Reaper seem like a waste of resources. And the heavy weapons skill of Grunty, Meltdown, or Grizzly can turn a tank to trash for a pitance of what Gus, Scully, or Ivan cost. The only high priced merc I think is worth the money is Trevor. Although he's not the greatest shot, he is an awesome lockpick, mechanic, and explosives guy. He does the work of three specialists better then most other mercs and he's not sky-high priced. With him on the team plus a little medical skill scatterd around, all my other mercs can be aquired for thier shooting/throwing/killing skills. My IMP can have zero mechanical and explosives skills and not really be hamperd.

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95200] Wed, 08 September 2004 03:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Xoio-man is currently offline Xoio-man
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Linx is great on sniper... LINX RULEZ

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95201] Wed, 08 September 2004 05:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
The NumbNuts is currently offline The NumbNuts

 
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Oh my god... you said Linx.. Surprised
Its Lynx.. don't you know that... aargh now all brakes loose :wrysmiley: Lynx is a great sniper :rifle:

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95202] Wed, 08 September 2004 17:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
The NumbNuts is currently offline The NumbNuts

 
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Well Rude Dog and Numb are the new merc

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95203] Thu, 09 September 2004 04:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I'd say... I, uh, 'd say that... I dunno, Rosebud I suppose! And Rude Dog rocks.

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95204] Thu, 09 September 2004 06:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
The NumbNuts is currently offline The NumbNuts

 
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Maddog mit

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95205] Fri, 10 September 2004 01:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Maddog is currently offline Maddog

 
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No... he's quotes are funny, really. And he's nice enough, and there's not so many new guys there, and you have to pick one. Very Happy

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95206] Thu, 23 September 2004 09:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Gideon

 
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I say Cobra, but otherwise, I would say Tex. Must be my old time memories.

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95207] Wed, 28 September 2005 20:15 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Otime is currently offline Otime
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No one mention JA2 favourite 'Fox'. Read the post and was worried if she'd been replaced. Glad that she's still around and still my favourite.

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95208] Thu, 29 September 2005 12:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
DaveS425 is currently offline DaveS425

 
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Everyone likes Fox Smile

I changed her back to being ambidextrous though from (night ops? -- I forget).

Fox and Wolf are usually on my main team, partly because Fox gets a _lot_ of interrupts near the end of the game, more than most others at her level.

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Re: New favorite Merc in UC[message #95209] Fri, 30 September 2005 11:46 Go to previous message
Otime is currently offline Otime
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In UC it was HtH. I forgot to check when starting the game, so did not change it back to JA2 stats. But her Hth comes in useful at the start. I just recruited Tex who is ambidextrous, so its good for now.

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