L4Dε Modified Talker - Official version (Left 4 Dead 2)

※ Updated on 9.03.2018: A way better accessory with Scenes Fix is available now. Please redownload MT accessory and install newer one.
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Having been rebuilt since September 2014, the L4D Epsilon Modified Talker will revive the abandoned 30% of L4D2 survivors' lines to where they should have been.
It may replenish remark lines of official campaigns in the distant future.

In case you often play community campaigns, use community version instead! See attention 5. in changelog for more details.

*** Please read changelog before you download. ***

Particular thanks to:
JoePan, GB, BOSS, 戰場屍體 - Testers of alpha version.
DeathChaos25 - Fixed talker bugs with plugins.
id5473 aka sereaI - Offered game_sounds scripts.
UbiSergei, ChocolateCat - Offered a BETTER way to install sound scripts.
ion - Scenes Fix addon.
KillzNThrillz - Motivation.

（臺灣玩家請至巴哈姆特置頂文下載中文訐譙版）

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Tagged Survivor Audio Scripts gameplay fix talker lazy 4 dead devs can't fix

Updated: 06/13/18 • Views: 27,342 • _l4d2+1 modified talker.vpk (629KB)

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L4D2 Modified Talker

The L4D2 Modified Talker is an addon which improves the survivor's conversation. It includes...

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ErrorUnknownGT 3 days ago

Don't know if anyone else has this problem, but Bills "I'll see peace back on earth...." plays very rarely after killing a tank, it shows up in the subtitles, but he won't actually vocalize it 90% of the time.

bazrael 3 days ago

This issue should be fixed after you install the latest accessory which released on Sep 3rd. Don't need to redownload the MT.

ErrorUnknownGT 3 days ago

Thank you!

it's good

By ElBotellas911 last month

Personally, the map is quite good. Five stars: D

bazrael last month

New tutorial explains how to build the string table for community maps and make Modified Talker run with them. You can check whether the map possess a string table using GCFScape. - gamemaps.c◎m/guide/133

ctfChallonge last month

You should consider reuploading every map with that issue and add "fixed" to the title. /s Thanks for the heads up.

bazrael last month

"That guy" has done lots of string table fixes already.

Max7544 June 2018

Hello! What accessory do i need in order for this to work? S saw a link uploaded by ChocolateCat, but it's down, was that the accessory?

Max7544 June 2018

NVM sorry, i readed the changelog

ctfChallonge June 2018

Hi bazrael, I've got a question which I hope you can clear up for me. is there a way to fix the dialogue interrupting? Specifically Nick seems to interrupt Coach and Ellis all the time when they talk. It's often enough to "gasp" as Nick and Coach will stop talking about cotton candy and whatnot. It seems to happen with l4d1 characters aswell albeit less frequently. I know this bug has been known back in the steampowered forums days, but is there anything that can be done to fix that or reduce the interrupting a little? With all the new added lines, it's a shame that in case one player never shuts up, other survivors barely get to talk. Hope you answer. Thanks in advance.

bazrael June 2018

Nick's talking interruption bug has never been fixed since L4D2 released. Talker codes didn't cause this bug, either. An interesting coincidence is that you can find the most scene files (*.vcd) of Coach and Ellis have some garbage codes from Nick. This may the reason why Nick could interrupt their conversation but Rochelle wouldn't be affected. Trying to open any scene file, either Coach or Ellis, and then you will see "Gambler { .... }", the garbage codes without meaning.

bazrael June 2018

I think L4D1 survivors didn't suffer above issue even though they were in L4D1 game. In the original talker codes, there are some context codes which can stop most usual vocalizing lines for conversation of official stores. These context codes can stop players to utter unnecessary lines like laughter, DEATH SCREAMING to interrupt normal speeches. I also joined this into my "MTEllisStories" concept so any player can't interrupt Ellis stories with radial menu, either. - You had better install "[L4D1&2] Vocalize Admin Commands" plugin to mute the player never shuts up or kick the troller's ass out.

ctfChallonge June 2018

Thanks for the answer. I guess we'll have to live with it. Pity. Your theory about the garbage code in the scene files sounds right. I wonder if it's possible to circumvent it somehow. I have an idea to test if it's the issue, by using the commands "speak "Coach_instertAnyVoiceLine" noscene " instead of regular "scene "scenes/Coach/instertAnyVoiceLine.vcd"" and try to make survivors talk that way. But I doubt it's going to work. Plugins are unfortunately not an option since I play on my local host setting. Which have a whole lot other issues haha. For example, the new accessory for installing the talker files, makes my game crash if I host the game on most l4d2 official campaigns. The game frezzes when somebody tries to connect. Usually, when there is 1-2 people already on the server. These issues don't exist on any custom camaigns or l4d1 maps. At least I couldn't reproduce it yet. But the old method still works fine, so it's alright. Anyway, thanks for the info and the great talker. Appreciate it!

ioniq June 2018

I've been doing some research on this topic and I'll share my findings here. When using "speak" for the response, Nick won't interrupt Coach's and Ellis' dialogue. So the problem is definitelly in the scene (.vcd) files. I also suspect the placeholder actor "Gambler" part is the source of the problem, as bazrael mentioned. Rochelle's scene files don't have that part and they're working properly, without Nick's interrupting. Need more testing to see how and if this can be fixed (at least for local and dedicated servers)...

bazrael June 2018

@ ctfChallonge: Your issue seems more like the missing of string table in maps of official campaigns. Verifying integrity of game files should solve your issue and this ought not to happen on default maps. - @ ioniq: Actually I've been tested corrected scene files for a while, but I found that only fixing client's scene files wouldn't solve it. Maybe scene files mainly load from server like talker files so if server has corrected ones, players in this sever won't encounter this bug anymore.

ioniq June 2018

In the Valve Developer documents, they say all scenes are compiled in a binary file called "scenes.image" and if you have that file in /scenes folder, you don't even need .vcd files. But, I tried and deleted /scenes folder with all files inside (including scenes.image), and the game still played all lines properly!!! So, now I have no idea where are the scenes actually loaded from. Which means no idea what to fix... :(

ioniq June 2018

Good news! I've been able to find the source of the problem for Nick interrupting Coach and Ellis, and I've released the fix fo it! You can download it from here: GameMaps /details/20294

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it's good

By ElBotellas911 last month

Personally, the map is quite good. Five stars: D

A true must have!

By ctfChallonge July 2017

Servers running without this mod do a disservice to the whole l4d community. If you're running a l4d server, get this mod and use it NOW!