Would like some advice on talking NPC's

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I have a mob of NPCs that play random audio cus when triggered by a player, the problem is that the audio gets pretty annoying when you have a mob of them following you.

Iv attached an outside sound cue actor to cast to an array to choose from the available sound cues. I was wondering how could I limit the active sound cues that are going through so only 1 NPC is chosen to play audio.

Should my trigger sphere get all other triggers in the area and set a blocked variable? Iv tried this and it seems each trigger blocks another trigger so no audio is playing.

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Just a thought,

how about you poll on a timer the triggering spheres, add them to an array; if the length is higher than one then you pick a random one in the array, or if the length is one you play that one cue. Reset the timer when there is no sound playing and no triggers active.

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I’m running into problems due to the fact that I have many actors triggering at the same time to poll.