Casualty
This mod doesn't really do anything directly useful; it was just an itch I wanted scratched.
A few gamers may remember Bungie's amazing "Myth: The Fallen Lords" back in the mid-90s, which set the bar for small unit fantasy tactical combat (and a wonderful backstory/voiceover "feel" which imho has yet to be matched in any game since).
Anyway, one of its well-done (albeit depressing) features was that whenever one of your units died, rather than either glossing over it or dwelling on it, a neutral voiceover voice would just say "Casualty." And in a big battle where you were sweating bullets and your troops were dying in large numbers, having this horribly neutral voice chanting "Casualty. Casualties. Casualty." was both maddening and yet energizing. It added something.
Anyway, for no good reason I decided I wanted that in WoW, so I coded up this little mod. It's horribly incomplete (for one thing, it triggers when pets die, which I should fix, and may trigger on other things) but it did what I wanted, so I thought I'd share it. If I have time and anyone in the universe wants it to do more, I may add more flexible announcements, integration with SCT so you get a message zipping up the screen with the name of who died, etc. But right now, with its basic "casualty" message, it does what I wanted.
Note: What you have for a sound sample is me and a microphone, since the actual sound samples from Myth are not free for public distribution, so feel free to go through the trouble of replacing them if you wish.
A few gamers may remember Bungie's amazing "Myth: The Fallen Lords" back in the mid-90s, which set the bar for small unit fantasy tactical combat (and a wonderful backstory/voiceover "feel" which imho has yet to be matched in any game since).
Anyway, one of its well-done (albeit depressing) features was that whenever one of your units died, rather than either glossing over it or dwelling on it, a neutral voiceover voice would just say "Casualty." And in a big battle where you were sweating bullets and your troops were dying in large numbers, having this horribly neutral voice chanting "Casualty. Casualties. Casualty." was both maddening and yet energizing. It added something.
Anyway, for no good reason I decided I wanted that in WoW, so I coded up this little mod. It's horribly incomplete (for one thing, it triggers when pets die, which I should fix, and may trigger on other things) but it did what I wanted, so I thought I'd share it. If I have time and anyone in the universe wants it to do more, I may add more flexible announcements, integration with SCT so you get a message zipping up the screen with the name of who died, etc. But right now, with its basic "casualty" message, it does what I wanted.
Note: What you have for a sound sample is me and a microphone, since the actual sound samples from Myth are not free for public distribution, so feel free to go through the trouble of replacing them if you wish.
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Posted Jul 15, 2012@Aisenfaire
I added preliminary support for both arena and battleground toggles. You'll need to install the alpha, since it's not fully tested yet.
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Posted Feb 25, 2012Hello,
I wonder if you would consider adding an option to ignore deaths in battlegrounds? :)
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Posted Aug 10, 2011Great idea! I had been looking for something similar recently but maybe that could be more of a feature request for you.
What I was looking for was a mod that would alert me when either the tank or healer died in a party (5-man or raid). Being a DPS DK I hate missing an opportunity to use my B-Rez because I am focusing more on the fight than party member health. So if you could add an option to give alerts when tanks or healers die it would be just what I was looking for. =)
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Posted Aug 10, 2011Please test r63.
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Posted Jul 1, 2011Sadly no longer working in 4.2, opened a ticket on it. I miss this addon already <3
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Posted Feb 9, 2011Still working for me. Wonderful addon!
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Posted May 13, 2009Thank you.
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Posted May 2, 2009Any known issue about it?
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Posted Feb 22, 2009I had been using Casualty for quite some time, and you and I actually had some light conversation a while back on ui.worldofwar.net (I'm the guy that ripped the sounds out of Myth). At any rate, I want to thank you for your continued effort with this mod. Always has been and always will be one of my favorites.
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Posted Feb 20, 2009God bless you.
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Posted Jan 2, 2009No, you're right, it was broken. Casualty monitored the chat log for combat information and while I was away from WoW they changed the way combat logging worked (for the better). Have fixed this and will try to merge with what Durcyn was doing and upload before too much longer.
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Posted Dec 28, 2008If you want to use r77631.4 (the 9/20/2008) version without enabling out-of-date addons, you can do the old trick of changing the UI string in the Casualty.toc file to "30000" and it loads (for me) just fine.
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