The New/Added Combat Sounds...Thoughts?

[CastoaKardos]

A big issue that’s been around for a while with character sounds is that sometimes the characters can get so vocal that the game sounds broken (voice clips playing into each other, etc). I was really really happy with my character’s voice and the level of noise he made, but it is really upsetting that he’s suffering from this issue now. Like other people have said, I’m all for some more voice clips, thankfully the new ones for my voice aren’t bad, but the frequency with which they play is jarring, and sometimes the same clip can play 5 times in a row. I don’t know how easy it’d be for them, but I’d love to at least see a slider or an option to toggle how vocal your character is.

[DynnDiablos]

I wish you could turn off these battle noises, but keep your character's voice for emotes. I hate that it turns it all off! My Viera has a great emote voice, but her battle stuff sounds like she is constipated and trying to well..ya know.

[PeppermintBrown]

A big issue that’s been around for a while with character sounds is that sometimes the characters can get so vocal that the game sounds broken (voice clips playing into each other, etc). I was really really happy with my character’s voice and the level of noise he made, but it is really upsetting that he’s suffering from this issue now. Like other people have said, I’m all for some more voice clips, thankfully the new ones for my voice aren’t bad, but the frequency with which they play is jarring, and sometimes the same clip can play 5 times in a row. I don’t know how easy it’d be for them, but I’d love to at least see a slider or an option to toggle how vocal your character is.

Oddly enough I seem to notice it most often with Aiming jobs like dancer and MCH. For some reason my melee dps and tank jobs and casters don't seem to grunt in combat as much. Though maybe it's just me and has to do with the charactesr I play what jobs on?

[Rasikko]

Most annoying part of this is that since these are all new sound clips we can't rely on the old youtube videos to check which voices might be more suitable for us if the changes to our current one aren't to our liking. So even if someone has the money to drop on a Fantasia they have really no basis for comparison as the CC doesn't exactly provide examples of the battle voice clips to begin with.

I suspect this was why they did it. Would have to wait for people do them all over again.

[Spiriel_Basanda]

I really don't like the new voice. I got about halfway through the new raid and started hearing it. I want my old grunts back. The new one is so out of place and unusual. The voice I use is the only fem Elezen voice I can stand in combat, so switching isn't really much of an option for me. I'd appreciate a toggle to turn off the new grunt or something. Every time I hear the new one it annoys me.

[CastoaKardos]

Yeah I definitely notice it more on certain classes but I’ve been noticing it a lot on my melee. Interestingly enough, my alt that’s suffered from this issue forever is more quiet now, so I’m not entirely sure what all they did with algorithms.

[Lissandra]

Just tested my character's voice out after noticing this thread. The new added "grunts" don't bother me. Mine sounds like the same VA, in my opinion, but I know others will think otherwise.

[Nerfworthy]

Oh no. I hope someone makes new videos for the new battle sounds soon. :/

[Raltar]

I hope they didn't change anything with the voice I had. My character literally made no combat sounds at all(highlander, but I don't remember which voice option since it was years ago). I liked it that way. I don't need no combat grunts.

[NessaWyvern]

My Voice 9 viera (which already had her battle voice changed once before) very luckily seems to have the same voice actor for her new battle sounds, so it's an improvement It's probably because her voice was implemented in 5.0, so it's more recent, and probably more likely to get the same voice actor.

I suspect it was done to quell people who have complained since ARR about people who have loud and squeaky battle voices on their characters, being annoying in dungeons.
I personally never had any problems, but some people would get usually mad at squeaky miqo'te and lalafell.