‘BF3 Contains a Shitload of VO’s and… Cursing’
By Sam van Zoest | May 26, 2011 | News | No comments | Share
Over the last couple of days, Tomas Danko, the Voice Over Producer at DICE, has been posting quite a few interesting things regarding Battlefield 3‘s in-game dialogue.
In one of his tweets, Danko reveals that they are using around 35 actors to record all the voice overs. He also predicts that Battlefield 3 might contain around 18,000 voice over files in total. That is, as he puts it: “mental for an FPS”. No first person shooter has had this large amount of voice over variations for multiplayer. DICE recorded over 300 unique versions for the “Man down!” event alone, varying from “Hostile down!” to “I took that fucker out!” to “That mother fucker is dead!”.
As you can see, there will be a lot of cursing in the game, even more than in Bad Company 2‘s single-and multiplayer.
Boosting Multi Play Game Mode Radio VO like nobody's business.Colleague complaining over too much cursing.I say, f**k that f*****g s**tTomas Danko, Voice Over Producer DICE
No way to disable cursing except turning down volume. It's an 18 rated game!
Danko also reveals there will be some foreign language in-world, but the game mode related dialogue will be in “broken” English. He also confirmed that there won’t be Arabic, German or Chinese language in the multiplayer. Though, he did confirm the presence of American, Farsi (Persian) and Russian language.
Underneath some more fan Q&A’s:
David Monks: What aspect of sound do you cover, all recording, or just VO recording, and all SFX or just VO SFX?
Everything VO: Design (also tech), casting, directing, recording, editing, vo fx, implementing, polish, debugging… You name it.
Sameer Abeidoh: Are the voice actors required to speak their languages formally, or can they speak with their own dialects?
I always cast and embrace the actor’s own dialect and voice, regardless of language. Sounds better.
Tomas Danko shares a passion for craft beer.
M0t0rBreath: Will the ComRose have several distinctive VO’s?
If there will be a ComRose, I have BF2 equivalent newly recorded VO assets. It’s not my decision, but I like the ComRose.
pekhe: Do you have recording instruments at different distances when doing VO, or is the VO reverb/echo effect computer-made in Battlefield 3?
All Multi Player in-world VO was recorded outdoors at distance. I don’t fake authenticity. I do it properly.
xtali007: Can you give us some epic line from the Multiplayer? And who did the screaming part?
“I’m getting my shit pushed in!” Over 30 people squealed outdoors for me and MP over a half year period.
Blond3r: Will you also use older VO for Battlefield 3?
No! Only brand new VO for Battlefield 3. It is not Bad Company 1 or 2 and it deserves nothing but the best. Totally new tone.
If you want your question(s) getting answered as well, here is his Twitter profile: @TomasDanko.
