The New/Added Combat Sounds...Thoughts?

[Rai_Takara]

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.

Some of us know our characters voices very well after playing with them for half a decade. Suddenly adding voices to then that does not fit is VERY noticeable. My characters new voices are completely out of character and it's pulling me out of the experience. I'm conviced the voice actors are different and that's the primary issue. The newer races probably are fine because they use the same VAs most likely but the older ones are probably not working for SE anymore.

[Tanama]

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

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

[3c-33]

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

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

[dinnertime]

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.

[Valic]

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.

[Enjuden]

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.

[AngelCheese77]

I've been playing with the sound off since I'm not doing anything new lately. Hm, will have to see once I get back into ShB with the husband.

[Valic]

Tbh, my character has always sounded all over with his VA. Some of his emotes are proper and masculine, others like /surprised sound like he just got kicked in the groin and hit puberty... meanwhile his battle voice doesn't even sound like his emote voice. VA's are hit and miss when it comes to this; overall though, it sounds like to everyone's displeasure that the sound development team is on a roll with screwing things up like GNB's SFX and supposedly this for people.

[Roda]

I haven't noticed anything with voice 3 miqo'te :x

[SugarPuff]

I don't hear any noticeable difference on my main, Miqo'te #11. It could just be I'm oblivious to it but I've played her for several years so, I don't know, maybe she didn't get much new or it's very quiet.