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.

[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.

[Tanama]

Not even sure what prompted the idea that they needed to change in the first place, if I’m being honest.

if I had to guess, I'm thinking it was voiced on the Japanese side of the forums and other social media. I've never noticed any requests for that here.

[SturmChurro]

They really added random voices to the current combat voices? I haven't noticed anything on my au ra, and I don't remember what my alt sounded like, I never played it. Must be pretty jarring. Why not just add new voices to choose from, or not do this at all? Really pointless, in my opinion.

[MsQi]

I haven't noticed anything new with Female Miqo'te voice 7. Are there specific abilities that trigger new sounds?

[Zwipp]

I actually like the new combat sounds better on my Miqo'te (voice 2), I just don't like them being mixed in with the old ones, since the new voice have a slightly different pitch.

[LalaLuna]

You were indeed right that this was mentioned in the patch notes:

Source: https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...811532980ef9cb


The idea appealed to me and I was looking forward to this change, knowing SE's eye for quality. But for this addition, I registered to these forums specifically to add my voice.


The added combat sounds do not seem to fit my character (voice 4), whom I've grown to love over the two years and thousands of hours I've spent playing with her. Like you, I get the feeling that the added combat sounds were done by a completely different voice actor, and I frankly find it off-putting.


My first reaction was to double check that I wasn't making up things, my second reaction was to find the option that lets me choose to return to the old situation... which regrettably I've been unable to find


Considering that our characters are our one single character with which we can become anything, a change like this is actually quite major. I'm not saying to remove the changes, it'd be great if they could update the existing changes for the voices where there really is a large discrepancy between original and new.


But above all, I urge the developers to provide an option to freely switch between the original combat sounds and the added new ones.


Their eye for quality is the real deal. Their ear for music is top-notch! Their ear for combat sounds... is a work in progress