The New/Added Combat Sounds...Thoughts?

[Halivel]

i truly can't understand why everyone cares so much about about having a large butt

Some don't get players obsession with 2B pants, some don't get obsession with voices. Priorities.


I am personally fine with new battle voices, but will not be against if there will be a decision about reverting the change. The voice I use wasn't affected in a bad way, but I also can see why people are disappointed about the change.

As for the GNB discussion: there is nothing wrong with how it sounds, and I say it as a person that spends on this job 95% of play time. Yes, the 1st pack of sounds was really cool, but the amount of "slicing" there was just weird, considering the principle of how gunblade works. Now it sounds maybe not as stylish, but does sound correct: slice when it should slice, explode when it should explode. And if I remember correct, they changed it exactly because 1st version was installed by mistake, not because they wanted to piss community.

[Noctisnine]

Some don't get players obsession with 2B pants, some don't get obsession with voices. Priorities.


I am personally fine with new battle voices, but will not be against if there will be a decision about reverting the change. The voice I use wasn't affected in a bad way, but I also can see why people are disappointed about the change.

As for the GNB discussion: there is nothing wrong with how it sounds, and I say it as a person that spends on this job 95% of play time. Yes, the 1st pack of sounds was really cool, but the amount of "slicing" there was just weird, considering the principle of how gunblade works. Now it sounds maybe not as stylish, but does sound correct: slice when it should slice, explode when it should explode. And if I remember correct, they changed it exactly because 1st version was installed by mistake, not because they wanted to piss community.

I am gonna have to disagree heavily with you, the gunbreaker sounds are bad as they are right now unless you find cool eating the enemies with a club instead of a blade. The older sounds were 100x better and some people I would say the vast majority is trying to make SE to either revert the sounds or mixing them with the current continuation ones.

[Halivel]

I am gonna have to disagree heavily with you, the gunbreaker sounds are bad as they are right now unless you find cool eating the enemies with a club instead of a blade. The older sounds were 100x better and some people I would say the vast majority is trying to make SE to either revert the sounds or mixing them with the current continuation ones.

I don't say that 1st version sound worse than current - if anything, I liked 1st version a lot. However, the recent sounds right in combination with skill animations. That's subjective opinion, ofc, as any other one.

[3c-33]

i think there's a notable difference between caring about the sound quality on your character or job you're playing vs caring how big the rear on your character model is. they're already fine as is and while having a slider like how we do with boobs sounds pretty reasonable and makes sense, we just don't have that. it's not even like the other issues viera and hrothgar specifically have, with viera not being able to use any hairstyles or headgear and hrothgar having their hair tied to their face and so on. i'm more concerned about that than... this

[Ryaz]

I honestly haven't noticed a difference. I don't usually focus on the grunts and groans, though, as my ears are on my weapon sounds which I use as a timing mechanism.

[Vahlnir]

i truly can't understand why everyone cares so much about about having a large butt, like, it seems kind of ridiculous at this point for people to make such a big deal over it and all that, i just don't get it.

And I don't understand what the huge deal is regarding character combat voices, but to each their own. What may be important to you may not be important to others. The same logic can be applied to anyone and everyone, but I won't sit here and judge people for their preferences...well, within reason. Some things simply deserve to be judged. lol

i think there's a notable difference between caring about the sound quality on your character or job you're playing vs caring how big the rear on your character model is. they're already fine as is and while having a slider like how we do with boobs sounds pretty reasonable and makes sense, we just don't have that. it's not even like the other issues viera and hrothgar specifically have, with viera not being able to use any hairstyles or headgear and hrothgar having their hair tied to their face and so on. i'm more concerned about that than... this

The only difference is that you feel strongly about one while others feel strongly about something else. They both affect one's character, though how much is probably up for debate.

[LalaLuna]

While I understand the dev team's desire to use assets that have long existed, but couldn't be implemented, I feel that this is one of the things for which they underestimated the ramifications.

I've heard Yoshi's request to try it out, which I did (though admittedly reluctantly). Even with my best efforts I cannot get used to the changes to my character's voice, if only because her original sounds are just so rare now, and the new ones just don't fit the image I've grown of my character over the past few years.

I stand by my original request, which should be technically feasible and easy enough to do: make it an option that one can toggle. Various players have mentioned reverting the changes; that's not going to make the people happy who do appreciate the new sounds. Various other players have also suggested making it an option, which I still consider the one-size-fits-all solution.

Please give us the option to use the original battle voices.

[LalaLuna]

A full month later, I still find myself avoiding my melee jobs. The original battle sounds that sounded satisfying are just too rare now, too often replaced with more aggressive sounds that I don't find suiting my character.


Besides that, I've also become more aware of other player's battle sounds and regularly find them quite distracting in how all-over-the-place some sound, or the volume of the various cries are just too varying (some okay, some more quiet, some significantly louder).


I've done my honest best to see if I can't make it work, but I still very much prefer the original battle sounds. I'd very, very much like the option to revert to those.


PS: I added my updated reply to this thread to keep it together with the original feedback. Please let me know if this would count as a necro (I was unable to find any general guidelines regarding those).

[3c-33]

regarding what a certain someone did in that gnb sound fx thread, i would totally love if someone did that with this too