The New/Added Combat Sounds...Thoughts?

[HyoMinPark]

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.

Well, unfortunately mine now has a random “NYA!” sound that is much higher in pitch (and much louder) than the old voice sounds for my Miqo’te. I really dislike this, as the sounds really stick out to me during combat. And not in a good way. I picked Voice 2 because it suited Hyomin, but now it sounds like she’s pretending to be two different individuals. The new sounds are definitely a different VA from the old sounds in my voice.

[Rinku421]

I liked the idea of adding more grunts but theres a clear audio level and tone difference between the old and new ones. It just sounds inconsistent and odd (kinda like the new GNB sound "fix").

[Cetek14]

Devs are making new weird habit of changing perfectly fine things. First GNB sound effects, now combat voice. What's next?

[testname]

Devs are making new weird habit of changing perfectly fine things. First GNB sound effects, now combat voice. What's next?

I like new GNB sounds, and sorry maybe I am in minority that don't voice opinion

[YojimboM]

Male Hyur Midlander with voice 10.. It got a new "hya"/grunting combat voice that sounds nothing like its actual voice. I didn't realize they added new sounds until I was hitting a dummy and noticed it. I hate it. At least for my voice, the sound is very tacked-on feeling and no longer matches the original sound. The new voice is extremely high pitched for no apparent reason.

[3c-33]

if theyre going to randomly make big changes for things that aren't broken they could atleast have the decency to do it correctly since the general consensus here seems to be that most of the new voices don't match the old ones and sound out of place. like in theory yeah i'd be down for more voices but this is the worst possible way they could have done it, i'm not sure if they even mentioned this outside of the patch notes or even asked

like seriously, if you can't even get the same voice actor and make it sound fitting why bother, that's what makes the least sense to me here, it should not have been changed if they didn't even have the proper resources/time for it which is the impression i'm getting (similar to how viera and hrothgar are essentially "unfinished" races that got released anyway)

[Veila]

I'm not even sure Viera voice 10 has any new sounds.

Just tested out my monk, and not only do I not hear new sounds, I can BARELY hear her at all anymore, even with battle sounds and music at 0%....what the heck? She basically fights completely silent now. Even if I could hear it, it also sounds like it's less frequent.

[Arcian]

Absolutely terrible.

The Midlander voice I'm currently using is this annoyingly high, breathy "Ihhh!" now. I hate it.
Between that and making the full chakra SFX an obnoxiously loud and metallic SCHINNNG I'm playing with the sound off.

Good job, SE. Thanks for these changes that literally no one asked for.

[DevilsDontFly]

I actually like my character's new combat sounds a lot! Didn't got to hear other people's voices, but my own experience has been satisfying.

[NessaWyvern]

I actually like my character's new combat sounds a lot! Didn't got to hear other people's voices, but my own experience has been satisfying.

Yeah, some of them are quite nice, I feel bad for those who got terrible ones though :/