Part 143: Bonus Update - Wingman Death Comms

Oh, yeah, I keep meaning to post about this.

Every wingman does have a death comm - actually, they have two, one for low morale and one for high morale - but they're not broadcast when the wingman dies a scripted death in the Kilrah series (this is because there were supposed to be separate comms for dying in this series - they're in the script, but I don't think they were ever recorded). I really can't be bothered to kill all my wingmen twice and screw with their morale values to give you all these comms recorded, but (at least according to my copy of the game script), this is what they are. These are notably more sweary than the rest of the game, which I suppose is reasonable enough under the circumstances:

(Hobbes can't have low morale): I fear I've been mortally wounded. Goodbye, my friend. (Hobbes can die on your side, but only if you screw up sufficiently badly that you get to Proxima before he defects. Obviously, he doesn't have a Kilrah line.)

(high morale): Kill 'em all for me, sir! (Cobra, like Hobbes, can die in space, but only if you screw up sufficiently badly that you get to Proxima before Hobbes kills her. Equally obviously, she doesn't have a Kilrah line either.)

(low morale): AYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

(high morale): I can't believe this...

(Kilrah): Don't let me croak for nothing, Colonel - nuke 'em all

(low morale): I knew this was gonna hap....

(high morale): I never got to tell you, C....

(Kilrah): Nail every last one of 'em Colonel - for my brother, and me -

(low morale): Remember me, sir... (this is the only one I've ever actually heard her say. I think the control here isn't low/high morale, it's before/after the love interest choice, and Flint can't actually die before that).

(high morale): Impossible! I can't diiiie!

(Kilrah): Fuck 'em all!

(low morale): Son of a biiiiiitch!

(high morale): That’s all she wrote for me, friend.

(Kilrah): Keep goin'! Don't give up, friend.

(low morale): SHIIIIIITTTT!

(high morale): According to the scripts, it's "I'm breaking up! Adios, amigo!", but I think he actually says what's listed as his Kilrah-only line, "I'm goin' down! Get 'em for me, sir!"

(low morale): Shit, man! I'm too youuuuunng...

The Victory has a death-comm, too, which I've heard often enough, but which isn't in the script and there's no easy way to get it out of the game without actually loading a mission where the Victory is attacked and waiting around for it to die, and I've got stuff to be doing right now. I'll come back and edit it into here at a later point, hopefully.

Oh, and Jade and I have recorded the commentary for the next update, so...well, yeah, we're now onto the bit where I procrastinate editing audio for a week or two. Hopefully it'll be up sometime this week.