Updating the voices?

Whenever I am playing with the character creation or using fantasia, the biggest struggle is to choose the perfect voice. When I look through the cheer and chuckle emotes they sound okay, but when the progress is done the happy emote sounds like a witch or someone having a seizure. This is mostly the case for female Midlanders, and for some Miqote's as well. Don't get me started with the battle voices.

Can we please have some voice updates? Or at least take some of the less used voices away and exchange with already existing popular ones from other races. I'm always hating on half of the voices my character lets out. :/

Female Miqo'te have some pretty decent mature/deep voices though interspersed with the cutesy-diabetes inducing options. I can't necessarily think of it as a fair thing to remove any voice unless less than 1% of all players are using it, because while you might dislike it - others might love it. Hell when I was still playing a Miqo'te I /loved/ the option that gave me a Garuda laugh. It was a /terrible/ voice delivery but it cracked me up so much I'd run around and terrorize people with it for laughs.

I think it'd be helpful if we could listen to combat grunts in addition to emote voices. Always sucks to find your perfect voice but it has the most annoying combat grunts.

Hm, I just pick whatever and don’t care about voice because I feel like I never hear the it anyway except for the combat grunt, which I find annoying no matter what voice it is. But yeah, I feel like they probably wouldn’t completely replace or alter existing voices because then they’d be altering people’s characters. Is there actually a limit on the number of voices they can have on the list?

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Originally Posted by Enla

Female Miqo'te have some pretty decent mature/deep voices though interspersed with the cutesy-diabetes inducing options. I can't necessarily think of it as a fair thing to remove any voice unless less than 1% of all players are using it, because while you might dislike it - others might love it. Hell when I was still playing a Miqo'te I /loved/ the option that gave me a Garuda laugh. It was a /terrible/ voice delivery but it cracked me up so much I'd run around and terrorize people with it for laughs.

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That is true, I know they won't update or change anything since that would need more new character memory space for every race. I only like Miqote voice 2, 10 and 11. Everything else is too cutesy or from lalas mouth.. shouldn't be too picky lol

I agree on the combat grunts - my character makes horrible groans and I had to mute all the voices to stop hearing them!

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Originally Posted by Leloa

Whenever I am playing with the character creation or using fantasia, the biggest struggle is to choose the perfect voice. When I look through the cheer and chuckle emotes they sound okay, but when the progress is done the happy emote sounds like a witch or someone having a seizure. This is mostly the case for female Midlanders, and for some Miqote's as well. Don't get me started with the battle voices.

Can we please have some voice updates? Or at least take some of the less used voices away and exchange with already existing popular ones from other races. I'm always hating on half of the voices my character lets out. :/

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It would also be great to at least be able to sample all the battle and emote voices from the character screen.

Though even better would be to be able to mix and match from them.

But by then we're entering the "could my Midlander female please avoid flappy-flappy-girl-arms syndrome?" territory...

Well for my female cat I love voice 3 because it's really cute and not annoying and screechy.

"Dont get me started with battle voices" -OP
Me: lol sush

Some male voices either sound mega old or teenage. Nothing in between.

Would love to see new voices added..even if it's just like 2 or 3 per race.

It would be nice to be able to preview all of a particular voice's samples for every emote and situation, particularly combat.

I feel like the people who picked that Miqo'te voice probably thought it sounded okay in the creator without realizing how it would sound in battle.

Doubt this would happen outside of an expansion.

1) Expand the sound previews
2) Delete female miqo'te voice 5

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Originally Posted by Dualgunner

I think it'd be helpful if we could listen to combat grunts in addition to emote voices. Always sucks to find your perfect voice but it has the most annoying combat grunts.

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yeah, overcoming this resulted in a weird Youtube search history for a few days.

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Originally Posted by Dualgunner

I think it'd be helpful if we could listen to combat grunts in addition to emote voices. Always sucks to find your perfect voice but it has the most annoying combat grunts.

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Yoshi: Nah we cant really add more customization, it would add too much server pressure.

An unfitting answer to a different question, but this is what devs would probably say if you ask them about it, its not a big priority problem for them. This existed since the launch and they didn't bother, so I am not expecting it anymore xD.

There was a japanese player who did all the work and put together compilations of races with every voice option and battle sound and uploaded them on youtube, they got taken down a few months ago... I wonder why...This would be so useful..

They need to remove that one female Miqo'te voice. If you've heard it, you know the one I'm talking about. I'm pretty sure using that voice in-game is considered a war crime.

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Originally Posted by Commander_Justitia

Yoshi: Nah we cant really add more customization, it would add too much server pressure.

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...and yet somehow they manage to add new hairstyles with every patch and occasionally through other sources such as the Mog Station as well. Here's hoping they add more options elsewhere in regards to character customisation as it's sorely needed and frequently requested.

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Originally Posted by Sove92

1) Expand the sound previews
2) Delete female miqo'te voice 5

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This is pretty much all that needs to be done.

An option to just turn off battle grunts would be good imo.
Even not counting Miqo'te voice 5 I'm pretty tired of my character's combat noises already, especially when playing Monk where they grunt with every single skill.

Adding new voices would probably cost quite a bit of time and resources(since you need to pay voice actors, direct, record, edit etc) and we've already got quite a lot of options compared to certain games. I agree however that they should add an option in character creation to preview combat sounds and perhaps more emotes.

Another thing they absolutely should do imo, is add in-game settings to turn off combat and emote voices for your character and other players, just like we can do with most battle effects. That would solve the issue of annoying voices without cutting anybody's options and help in case you've picked a bad voice for yourself.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

It would be nice to be able to preview all of a particular voice's samples for every emote and situation, particularly combat.

I feel like the people who picked that Miqo'te voice probably thought it sounded okay in the creator without realizing how it would sound in battle.

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I just tried out Black Desert from the Steam sale. They let you preview voices in 3 or so variations of battle grunts. it's just a preview option on the character creator, its nothing new added to the game. I think they can add it eventually.

This game could use a more in depth menu in the voice section of the character creator by adding a variety of battle cries to the sampler as well. Many rpg's do this.

Saves me the trouble of looking up youtube videos showcasing combat voices.

Agreed. Female Highlander voices make me sad. Voice 2 is ok, voice 4 is ok, but both have...really weird moments. All of the rest sound like they are anything from mildly brutish to openly stupid. I mean, one of them straight sounds like Kermit the frog, but without the humor you'd think that would elicit. I'd be ALL for some more options, even if its just voices from other races, but they won't do that, because a lot of voice clips match that race's animations, but not others. Unfortunately, there was only two good female voice actresses (no idea about males really) and one did a couple Miqo voices, the other did a couple of elezen voices and one hyur voice. That's it. All the other ones were either someone's aging mum who did it for free, or a retired female bodybuilder smoking two packs a day, or some other obviously unfortunate choice. I think it's because they spent all of the budget on the big names for the story characters and such. I tell you what, I'd even be super happy if they just dipped into the well of brits they got for Heavensward, most of them are solid enough, just have some of those ladies do a few voices, add them to the pool, and call it a win. Get some variety in there, especially for highlanders, midlanders, and roes too. ^_^

Edit: I forgot, to be fair, Au Ra ladies have some decent variety in their voices. It could be better, but it is already better than most of the rest. It just escaped me at the time because some times I get tunnel vision and am an idiot as a result. Try 2, 6, or 10 if you want a decent lizard girl voice. It was a decent if small step towards more choices and options when they put them in in HW.

honestly I think we should be able to choose voices individually, like which laugh we want, which angry we want. rather than choose them as a set. since Ive had times where I really liked the laugh on one voice but hated the angry noise while I liked the angry voice of another set. >.>