The New/Added Combat Sounds...Thoughts?

[Rai_Takara]

I love the new combat noises Miqo voice 1 makes, mostly because I can finally say it's noises, plural! Multiple! More than one sound played over and over during my constant spam of Heat Blasts @.@ I appreciate the added variety a lot.

If there are issues with the other voice types and they decide to adjust the new sounds, I hope they leave miqo 1 untouched at least. I think they got this one right.

I'm the opposite. I use miqo 1 and I absolutely hate the new voices mixed with the old. I think they should give us the option to not have the new voices. My character sounds like two or three different people now because they're voiced as such. I hate it. I hope this feedback reaches SE. It's such a small thing in the grand scheme of things but it's a world of difference.

[Theodric]

My character was already fairly silent before the change though now I don't hear him at all when it comes to combat sounds.

[Awful]

I switched back to Midlander tonight, voice 4 has some big changes I actually like them wasn't expecting that huge of a change and I actually like it, when I was Viera voice 9 didn't change at all but the noises for voice 9 I could barely hear them anymore.

[MrKusakabe]

I also haven't heard any new voice bits. Still my only two are "haaa!" and "Uahh!" during my rapier fights. No change since I started.
Which is kinda sad, because I know from GW2 how much atmosphere proper battle sounds can add when you hear people grunt, yell, scream in pain or in excitement instead of a turn-based "Ouch", "Oh.", "Ugh" sort of thing every 100 times you get hit.

But then, I have the typical rough Plainsfolk voice (by accident I picked the right one and learned later Plainsfolk and Dunesfolk males sound different according to the voiced cutscenes) and after those years I can imagine it's near impossible to recreate those.

[ScootPatoot]

My male Lala voice 2 new lines sound so feminine... I really don't like them, and they sound so unlike the originals that I thought it was a bug.

[Odstarva]

You can't rightly assess it doesn't belong to your voice actor, because all the voice actors have ever done is grunt and mumble. You've never heard them speak, how can you pretend to know it doesn't fit?

I'd love to see what you'd all sound like if you were locked in the middle of bloody combat. I'm sure it wouldn't sound pretty, or cute.

[HyoMinPark]

You can't rightly assess it doesn't belong to your voice actor, because all the voice actors have ever done is grunt and mumble. You've never heard them speak, how can you pretend to know it doesn't fit?

I'd love to see what you'd all sound like if you were locked in the middle of bloody combat. I'm sure it wouldn't sound pretty, or cute.

I mean, my Miqo’te voice has 2 new grunts that don’t sound remotely close to their original sounds. Ironically, they’re louder and more frequent than the old ones. I’d wager they’re from two different voice actors, because the tones don’t sound remotely similar to one another. I’m not pretending anything. I’m making an assessment based on what I hear repeatedly every time I play my main job.

I don’t think I’d randomly go NYAH!! NYAH!! while fighting, but that’s just me.

[Rai_Takara]

You can't rightly assess it doesn't belong to your voice actor, because all the voice actors have ever done is grunt and mumble. You've never heard them speak, how can you pretend to know it doesn't fit?

I'd love to see what you'd all sound like if you were locked in the middle of bloody combat. I'm sure it wouldn't sound pretty, or cute.

Doesn't take much deduction to see that some of the new combat voices are significantly different than the old one. The newer ones sound similar to each other, but nothing like the old ones. Not all voices have it rough though, that's why ot seems mixed.

[Esmoire]

You can't rightly assess it doesn't belong to your voice actor, because all the voice actors have ever done is grunt and mumble. You've never heard them speak, how can you pretend to know it doesn't fit?

I'd love to see what you'd all sound like if you were locked in the middle of bloody combat. I'm sure it wouldn't sound pretty, or cute.

... But voice acting is a creative decision, especially in this kind of project. The restraints of ability to hold a tone in combat is secondary to what is being conveyed artistically. What should sound best should suit the expectation of the majority of people hearing it. If they picked a certain voice because, say, the original two grunts sounded cute, they invested themselves into that form of expression. Vice versa as someone who chose a non-cute, non-pretty voice, I'd be annoyed if I got cute sounds on my character since it goes against the fantasy I'd imagined of her when I created her.

[NessaWyvern]

^And it also makes sense that my Vieras new attack voices sound fine, since Viera are more recent, they probably did use the same voice actor. Old voices might have problems with getting the old voice actor in to record some more.