The New/Added Combat Sounds...Thoughts?

https://youtu.be/QVNR7XgDu8U

i made a quick video just demonstrating the huge difference here (no visual because i have really bad fps) because why not

i'd honestly advise using the in game feedback as well at this point because i do not want to settle for this laziness im forced to listen to. at least with gunbreaker, i'm not forced to play it

This is one of those things that really bothers me. I use miqo voice 1 and the new voices don't sound ANYTHING at all like her normal voice. I want them gone or redone tbh. It's like a different VA did the new voice. Either there should be an option or they should revert it, imo.

Okay people...You're only noticing these things because they're new, and because they're new, they feel out of place simply by virtue of them not being there before, regardless as to if they work or not.

You'll get used to them in a few weeks or months, and you'll never notice the difference.

You gotta remember that people make weird sounds under stress. Even the burliest man with the deepest of voices might make a high pitched squeak if he had to swing a big lug of metal around all the time without even enough time in between to breathe, so i dont think its really all that unreasonable that the new voices sound slightly different.

Personally? Its a good thing for me...I think im using voice...12? 12? 11? One of the higher numbered ones, with a low pitch, i forget...whatever doesnt matter...But before patch day i'd only ever hear ONE battle sound coming out of her mouth, it got a bit robotic, this change is good for that even if it is a tiny bit off.

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Originally Posted by HyoMinPark

Anyways, I just wanted to know what other people thought about this. Happy Patch Day! :)

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I'm enjoying the added battle voices. Now my Viera doesn't sound like she's on a hyperactive warpath the entire time. The added variety is great and it is sounding great on my friend's characters as well.

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Originally Posted by 3c-33

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I'm listening to your video now and the new voice clips do not sound out of place to my ears.

My character did get a few new lines but they were small quiet grunting if anything. I do like them because the voice clips he has originay were loud yelling, and that gave it a good balance.

I tested it on my alts too, and one out of 5 did have new voice clips that sounded too different from his original one, but I actually prefer the new one better lol.

Anyway, so far though I think some of the new voice clips actually fit their voices. Some people are maybe misinterpreting different delivery in the acting from having a different voice entirely, but idk.

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Originally Posted by Tanama

I'm listening to your video now and the new voice clips do not sound out of place to my ears.

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the voice actor is entirely different. it sounds like a poor attempted imitation to match the original and it does not work and it's quite frankly irritating to now constantly listen to a voice play on my character that i did not choose. if i wanted my character to sound entirely different then i would have chosen something else. and the more i listen to it the more annoying it gets, they play at such a higher frequency than the old ones that it may as well have been considered a replacement at this point. there's no consistency here

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Originally Posted by VenKitsune

Okay people...You're only noticing these things because they're new, and because they're new, they feel out of place simply by virtue of them not being there before, regardless as to if they work or not.

You'll get used to them in a few weeks or months, and you'll never notice the difference.

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For me personally, once I notice a stark difference in something that I’ve been exposed to on a near daily basis for an extended period of time, I cannot unnotice it, no matter how much time has passed. My character making a NYAH squawk randomly during combat that she never made before won’t be something that I “get used to”.

Unfortunately, none of the other Miqo’te voices have ever appealed to me. So changing it isn’t an option. I honestly wish they’d just added a few new voices as options rather than sticking sounds in existing voices that people may not appreciate. Messing too much with established characters is very iffy because, sure: you will have some who like it, some who are neutral, some who don’t even notice...but you’ll also get those that don’t appreciate the changes made with little to no forewarning.

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Originally Posted by Tanama

I'm enjoying the added battle voices. Now my Viera doesn't sound like she's on a hyperactive warpath the entire time. The added variety is great and it is sounding great on my friend's characters as well.

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I have nothing against more variety. But I don’t think adding said variety to existing assets like this is the best way to go about adding it. All of my friends that I’ve asked about their new sounds don’t like them, because they say their characters sound odd or “out of place”. My BFF who plays a female Midlande (Voice 5, I believe) says one noise is way too high-pitched for their character, whom they always imagined with a lower voice as opposed to higher.

To each their own, but I would have preferred the voice variety not be added this way. Not even sure what prompted the idea that they needed to change in the first place, if I’m being honest.

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Originally Posted by VenKitsune

Okay people...You're only noticing these things because they're new, and because they're new, they feel out of place simply by virtue of them not being there before, regardless as to if they work or not.

You'll get used to them in a few weeks or months, and you'll never notice the difference.

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Or maybe they're just bad. Or are we supposed to get used to things like this as well?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hhPOXv9PFQ

God I regret looking that up and playing it to make sure it's the right one.

Imo they still need to add some of the most basic functions in this mmo. One of which being in character customization, a button that let's you test what your character sounds like when attacking.... Aion did this. They put a set of skills that your char displayed an animation of, and each one used the voice you set your character to use. It was a good way to hear what you'd be hearing 99% of your gameplay. Personally though, I like my char's added grunt, it breaks up the pattern when you hear the same grunt 3 times in a row.

My voice was incredibly subdued in combat, if ever heard at all since it was a silent type (Voice 3 male Elezen, pretty sure it's tied to all vanilla races, if not on Au Ra. The voice took me by surprise, but it's something I never knew I wanted til I heard it. No voice clips on the bigger attacks was something I thought was pretty neat as a 'rule of cool' deal, but they did a great job with that one in particular. I think the only thing I would change is to make it 50/50 between no voice or the new voice clip being played.