Preview combat voicing in character creation

Can we please preview the combat noises our character makes in creation? That's going to be a lot more useful than the voice they use during some emotes I'm not going to use often. I picked a voice I liked the emote sound of only to find out it's the most annoying voice ever in combat.

I would love to have this as a feature, because the same happened to me. Picked a voice for one of my alts that sounded fine with the emotes that were provided in the Character Creator, but sounds god-awful in combat.

That kind of ruined the archer class for my lala alt. She sounded fine on the emotes they let us test voices with, but I couldn't stand the way she squeals when firing arrows. This would be really helpful.

You've got my vote ;_; would definitely like to preview combat voices
(and for that matter, why are Bards so noisy? I feel like an Archer, in reality, would not be shouting every time they shoot an arrow)

Yes please.

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Originally Posted by Elamys

I picked a voice I liked the emote sound of only to find out it's the most annoying voice ever in combat.

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Let me guess, you picked Miqo'te girl voice #5 didn't you.
But in all seriousness I would love to have this, or at the very least be able to preview it with more voiced emotes. The difference between /Chuckle and /Laugh for example can make or break a voice for me.

Some of the female voices when they die/killed sound very sensual and it's disturbing. So yes I agree with the OP on having such choices in creation.

This is why I always create a character as a voice tester, run them out of town after the initial quest, and check the voices.

Death sounds too. Don’t forget the death sounds.

I'd be all for this. The voice samples they have aren't very good to begin with (Why is /chuckle the emote used instead of /laugh? My character has a perfectly sensible chuckle, but he laughs like Hojo on nitrous oxide) and the lack of any battle examples makes it worse.

I was wishing this was a thing back in FFXI, and yeah, still would be nice here too.

Limitations™ and Limited Resources™

Why are you all stopping at requesting only a preview?

Lets ask for a separate setting for the combat voice! Given your voice of choose, have two or more different sounds to pick for the combat will be good.

I turned myself into a Hyur midlander one time, I lasted a day before the weird grunting, and walk animations made me fantasia again. Would definitely love to preview combat voices, kind of luck of the draw, especially if you fantasia a lot.

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Originally Posted by Elamys

Can we please preview the combat noises our character makes in creation? That's going to be a lot more useful than the voice they use during some emotes I'm not going to use often. I picked a voice I liked the emote sound of only to find out it's the most annoying voice ever in combat.

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Holy hell I would also appreciate this. I made that mistake briefly when I first made my character and found out pretty quick that the voice was really really grating on the ears in combat. Had to remake cause I didnt have a phantasia at the time, and now every time I want to phantasia, I make the character I want first as an alt, attack some mobs, then phantasia. It works but its a pain in the butt.

There used to be a series of videos on youtube by a JP player that previewed every base voice emote and battle grunt with each race and gender. It was some of the most useful stuff when making a new character but they deleted their account or the videos got flagged for copyright or something a few years back :( I wish I had backed them up or something.

I would totally love more in depth previews!

I bet I know what voice you picked (I call it the mickey mouse voice). Every time I hear it in combat, I die inside.

I only use the Japanese voices (1-3) for all my characters; so far so good.

Yes please. Creating a new character for each voice was so tiresome. I've smacked countless squirrels and hurled myself off many ledges just for that small chance at hearing the injury grunts.

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Originally Posted by WellFooled

I'd be all for this. The voice samples they have aren't very good to begin with (Why is /chuckle the emote used instead of /laugh? My character has a perfectly sensible chuckle, but he laughs like Hojo on nitrous oxide) and the lack of any battle examples makes it worse.

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So very much this! I'm the type that spends hours perfecting my character before creation, so when I found out my /laugh sounded like a hyena, instead of the sensible voice that I chose, I was pretty pissed off. As it stands, the only way to reliably check your character's voice is to actually fully create and log-in with the character in order to test the emotes/battle noises, of you might get an unexpected surprise down the line.

They should just add the current basic emotes, run animations, and auto-attack to the character creator so you can really preview your character...

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Originally Posted by LalaRu

Why are you all stopping at requesting only a preview?

Lets ask for a separate setting for the combat voice! Given your voice of choose, have two or more different sounds to pick for the combat will be good.

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You're living in 2030 and the rest of us are in 2018, I appreciate this

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Originally Posted by Riardon

Limitations™ and Limited Resources™

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Considering the guaranteed rise in fantasia sales, if I was SE I would be all over this request. This is something they could easily do. A combat preview that has your character auto attacking and using limited weaponskills on a dummy that allows you listen to how they sound in battle. They could also have an option for your character to play dead so you can listen to this as well.

Because I played healer for such a long time before trying anything else, I had no idea how my character even sounded when in engaged in melee combat since healers don't have any melee skills. I got lucky here. But as BRD flinging arrows, if I could have previewed this, I very likely would have chosen another voice.

This would be very helpful! I had to use a fantasia just because of this. :(
However there are a couple YouTube videos that demonstrate a couple of them.

Fantasia should have a 24 hour grace period before they become final. The idea of having to go back and tweek your character because of items you're not happy with and then being forced to buy another to make those changes isn't very fair. I would think something like that would be easy enough to implement.

This would have saved me a few fantasia just to change voices in the past.

Yes, PLEASE. If I have to stand next to another high pitch female lala archer doing heavy shot I'm going to pull my hair out. I move away from you for a reason, stop following me!

This would have been nice. I remember buying a fantasia for April Fools day to play a femroe from a Miqo'te. Didn't change the voice; only changed the race but left selected features the same (IE: if I picked jawline 2 on the Miqo'te, then it was jawline 2 for the roe). What was fine on my miqo'te turned out to be annoying and grating on a roe, for some reason. Apparently, a roe with that voice option grunted and "HA!" more on DRG than the same selections as a miqo'te. I didn't even last a day before fantasia-ing back.

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Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

Fantasia should have a 24 hour grace period before they become final. The idea of having to go back and tweek your character because of items you're not happy with and then being forced to buy another to make those changes isn't very fair. I would think something like that would be easy enough to implement.

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I completely agree with this. I can't see them doing a 24 hour grace period though...maybe 1 hour grace period. Either way, this would help trmendously. Having to spend another $10 because you chose a bad voice or thought your skin tone looked better because of the lighting really sucks.

Perhaps a good idea would be to have a testing room in character creation.

Basically, you can load your created character in here and play them for a bit. It could have several rooms in an outdoor setting, with night time lighting, bright day time, sunset, ect, so you could see how your characters skin tones and such actually look while playing. Each room could have a training dummy, while your action bar would have generic attack actions to experience combat sounds.

When you're done, you simply exit and are returned to character creation to refine further.

I believe I have voice type 4 (it's been a few years), and while my friends won't stand next to me when I'm on certain jobs my /laugh is delightfully maniacal.

Yes please. When I first made one of my alts and put him in actual physical combat for the first time, I immediately felt disgusted with how he sounded. His emote voices were fine, but good god the combat voice. No, just no. Dear god no. It didn't suit him at ALL.

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Originally Posted by Gemina

A combat preview that has your character auto attacking and using limited weaponskills on a dummy that allows you listen to how they sound in battle.

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and do so for multiple classes/weapons, since, as you brought up, it can vary between them. My lala alt started out as a thaumaturge, and sounded fine on that. It wasn't until later, when I unlocked archer, that I had to put up with those awful squeals each time she shot an arrow.

This also makes it hard to create an alt just to try out various voices, as a workaround for not having it in the character creator. You can't really hear a lot of it until you unlock all the various classes at the very least (let alone if you want to know what you're going to sound like on one of the expansion jobs).