Lochlan's Talker

A completely rebuilt-from-scratch version of my custom talker script. Many months of on and off work and I am finally happy with putting it out into the wild.

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"What even is this mod?"

A set of heavily modified Talker script files, made to be lore-friendly and fit into "Vanilla+". I've been working on this for almost 4 years now.

"What da heck is a Talker?"

A "Talker" is a broad term for script files that controls what survivors and npcs can say. Unlike V-Script talkers, they are more limited in what is possible with them.

I hope you enjoy, I am quite proud of this.

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Important Notes:

- Only works in single-player, or a locally hosted server in which the host has this installed, other players do not need to have the mod installed to see (Or I should say hear?) the effects.

- This is a "standard" talker mod that only changes the .txt talker scripts, meaning this mod will work no problem with V-Script Talker mods

- Here is every .txt file this mod affects (Incompatible with mods that change these files.) - [biker.txt, coach.txt, finales_dlc2.txt, gambler.txt, manager.txt, mechanic.txt, namvet.txt, producer.txt, teengirl.txt]

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Special Thanks:

My friends who came up with line ideas over the span of four years.

Rise's 8 Player Talker - I used this mod before I knew what a talker was in the slightest, this mod is what made me want to make my own.

Helrika's Vocalizer - I used some of the custom lines for ideas within this talker.

Xanaguy - For making the TLS talker. For the amount of shit people give the TLS team - I do prefer the TLS talker over the original one.

Everyone who was around since the first "beta" of my legacy version - Thank you for your patience.

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Personal Ramblings

Main differences from the original (now "legacy" version):

- The entire thing was rebuilt from the start, using the TLS talker as a base.

- Many, many, many improvements and new features.

- "Cleaned up" all files, meaning that grammar and capitalization are now improved, if not correct, lines that are rarer are below all the normal lines, pretty much what I mean is that if you look into the files it is now much nicer to look at, rather than the scribblings of a madman.

- Note that a select few things were left out from the legacy version as I feel they don't fit or that I plan to tackle them better, later on (The whole LastOneStanding mess for example.)

The main reason I started working on this new version was to try and fix main menu boots that people were having with the old version. Unfortunately I have seem to hit the "limit" again already, personally I have only been booted once from this, when I tried to play a custom campaign that was loaded with tons of custom assets. The poor little 32-bit L4D2 can only do so much.

Seemingly the only way to fix this on my end would be to strip down the talker and make it more bare-bones. Which is something I DON'T want to do in the slightest.

As long as you don't play with a crazy large amount of other mods or wacky custom campaigns you should be fine.