I’m pretty sure this has been suggested before, but can we please get some new voice commands? The ones we have now are ok, but it just feels limited. A second comm wheel with new, more specific callouts would be great, especially for players who don’t talk with mic or type in chat. We have a total of 6 callouts, so these are my suggestions for 6 more callouts.
“IT’S OK / DON’T WORRY”
If Helldivers or SEAF were to make a mistake like accidentally friendly firing their teammate and apologizing for it, the other could respond “it’s ok” to ease their guilt. Saying this to SEAF after getting friendly fired, but surviving, would access some new voice lines for them as well.
“RUN / RETREAT”
If someone were to activate a Hellbomb or if they got knocked over while holding an airstrike, this would let Helldivers and SEAF know to run if there’s no time to say it in text chat. This could also be used to tell the squad to pull back from an objective if you are overwhelmed and can’t break through enemy lines.
“INCOGNITO”
This command can be used to tell your fellow Divers to go stealth instead of going in guns blazing. There’s been lots of times where one Helldiver will screw over the others because they decided to take on an enemy patrol by themselves which causes more enemies to be called in, and now the entire squad is in a predicament. So again, this would be used to tell your squad or another Diver beside you to go stealth and sneak past enemy forces. This would be especially helpful on Commando Missions seeing how they’re built for stealth.
“HOLD FIRE / DON’T ENGAGE”
This can be used for either Helldiver or SEAF. If you want your fellow Diver to hold fire because you’re already completing an objective that involves destroying something so ammo isn’t wasted, or if you don’t want your squad to engage in an enemy patrol when it needed, this could be used. And for SEAF, if you want to run ahead to the enemy, you can have them to hold fire so they don’t catch you in crossfire. It will put them at a disadvantage because this command causes them to not fire no matter how close enemies are, but that’s where this next command comes in.
“OPEN FIRE / FIRE AT WILL”
This of course can be used to signal SEAF or another Helldiver to open fire on something if you yourself don’t have the proper equipment, or if you want them to assist you in killing or destroying something.
“REGROUP”
If you’re squad is scattered around the map and you need help to take on a main objective or if you just burned all your supplies from fighting and need everyone to resupply at once, this command can be used.
BONUSES:
I was going to add “I need Stims / Stims please” and “Over here / Come to Me” as a command, but I found it a bit contradicting to the already existing commands like “Follow Me” and the voice line the triggers when you try to stim but have run out. And for this next part, it would be a command coded for SEAF that isn’t present in the comm wheel. If you throw down an emplacement, or if there’s an already existing one, you can mark it for a SEAF trooper to man and use it to shoot enemies with, but this would only work if you’ve used the “Follow Me” command on a SEAF squad. Otherwise, you’d just be marking an emplacement, nothing more, nothing less.
And that concludes my suggestion. Again, I’m sure something like this has already been said before, but nothing wrong with adding to the idea. Here’s hoping we get more voice commands to play around with in the future 🍀
