This would help with trailers  We only use the cinematic features for camera controlling purposes.

Regarding voicelines, they would indeed be neat, but not being able to make them shouldn't be reason not to create singleplayer content. I too would be in favor of voicelines being spoken in ancient languages, that would also save the trouble of having to translate them into different languages. The only problem is that that will just work for Latin and Greek, many of the other languages are too incomplete to write (and then speak) full sentences and texts in them.   I think there has been a misunderstanding. What I am currently working on and was talking about earlier is something like this mockup: When I wrote "dialogue" above, I was referring to speech, the possibility to make characters of a story talk. I think the game shouldn't be paused while a cutscene like this is running. What I settled with is to provide two options and leave it up to individual scenarios whether to disable hovering, selecting and giving commands or not, but always let the player move around the camera. And by the way, yes, the narrative overlay I opened the PR for already pauses the game behind it.

If you replay the match, does it crash?

It's in the houses. 

@Player of 0AD I didn't have that tech, and my bro had more in quantity. I was looking for that tech supposed to be in cc, but I didn't find.

I don't know how much of that will be possible; for now, the basics are just text. Voices aren't planned for the initial stages. It will be simple like the RTS of the 90s.

Now, I'm just a nobody here, and can't really help with the project right now. But I just want to make sure we are all aware that the current voices that exist (such as when clicking on a unit or giving an order) are in Latin or whatever language existed in the time this game portrays. Obviously, you can't write the whole campaign in Latin, so if you want to have the option for campaigns and scenario maps to have voices related to the story, you would have a difficult decision to make. Do you want the important characters' voices and plot lines to be in Latin, with captions in English or the player's language? Or do you want to actually do the voices in English? Keep in mind that if you do the voices in English, then that would make them stand out from the voices that already exist, which are in Latin (or whatever language, I'm probably embarrasing myself rn), and probably aren't going away. My opinion is that you should do the voices in Latin (just going to keep saying Latin, even though the actual language isn't even consistent bewtween civs, you know what I mean), but have captions in English (or the player's (modern) language). The 0 A.D. Vision states that the artwork and sounds for the game should immerse the player in a historically accurate world, and make the player feel like they are actually transported back in time, and not into some fantasy alternate universe, and I think that having ancient historical figures speaking in a modern language would take away from this. The Vision, for reference: "Sound will be critical. It will draw the player into the world to give the perception that they are actually there. Music will be epic, voices will hearken back to an ancient time, sound effects will bring the action to your home." More specifically, it says "voices will hearken back to an ancient time". I don't think this could be achieved if the voices were in a modern language. I do think there should be voices of some kind in the campaigns. I think that forcing the player to read through the characters' dialog in silence would make the game feel shallow. After all, sound will be critical. I feel like I'm just stating the obvious here, and not really adding anything to the discussion. This just seems like the elephant in the room to me, but I guess it's worth asking the question: should 0 A.D. campaigns have voice lines for the characters (and not just when you click on something, which we already have)? And if so, should it be done in a historically accurate language for immersion, or in a modern language for accessibility? Maybe we can do both, and make it an in-game option, similar to how we already handle "specific names" and "generic names".