The New/Added Combat Sounds...Thoughts?

[Esmoire]

You can't rightly assess it doesn't belong to your voice actor, because all the voice actors have ever done is grunt and mumble. You've never heard them speak, how can you pretend to know it doesn't fit?

I'd love to see what you'd all sound like if you were locked in the middle of bloody combat. I'm sure it wouldn't sound pretty, or cute.

... But voice acting is a creative decision, especially in this kind of project. The restraints of ability to hold a tone in combat is secondary to what is being conveyed artistically. What should sound best should suit the expectation of the majority of people hearing it. If they picked a certain voice because, say, the original two grunts sounded cute, they invested themselves into that form of expression. Vice versa as someone who chose a non-cute, non-pretty voice, I'd be annoyed if I got cute sounds on my character since it goes against the fantasy I'd imagined of her when I created her.

[Bellsong]

100% hate for my voice choice, I picked this voice specifically FOR the battle grunts, I liked how fierce and angry they sounded. now I get random wimpy NYAHS and HIYAS in my combat and I hate it.

I don't know what on earth made SE think the game needed more battle grunts, what we had was fine. I'd rather just have a single grunt than 3 or 4 that sound like totally different people.

I really wish they would revert it and pretend they did it by accident.

[Sated]

It would be nice if we had a more comprehensive list/poll of which voices people were generally happy or upset with so that they could be targeted specifically.

I'm very happy with the voices for my male elezen and miqo, who I think are #2 and #11? But I've heard some other races' #s and agree they don't match - I'd just hate to see mine changed because feedback was so vague.

[3c-33]

Is this just going to be one of those things that fades into obscurity and we all forget about it and say whatever as SE completely ignores it? Because it still irritates me that my character no longer sounds like the one I chose in combat, the voice was otherwise perfect on its own and now it's being set back by the awful additions. I don't want to just sit back and let this happen but is there really anything to be done about this now? Are they ever gonna listen or acknowledge this? Again, I can at least tolerate gunbreaker sounding awful because I'm not forced to play it, but I have to mute my own character because they ruined a voice that was fine? The additions they made to plenty of the voices really breach on the line of changing your pre existing character to something they saw fit instead without your own consent. It should really go without saying that practically replacing a character's voice actor should be a huge no-go.

[MomomiMomi]

It would be nice if we had a more comprehensive list/poll of which voices people were generally happy or upset with so that they could be targeted specifically.

From what I've seen, quite a few lala female #1 (which I use) are upset that we now sound like squeaky chihuahuas.

[Skivvy]

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.

I use 11 also, and I had to turn off all other sounds/BGM in order to hear what I think are probably the new sounds. With all the other stuff turned on, I typically just hear the main "hnyuh!" sound that she makes all the time. The new(?) sounds seem to fit the voice though.

[Kaku_Jin]

I use voice 1 for Miqo'te since ARR and it really grew on me. Then comes 5.1 and I started hearing this one noise that I suddenly started hearing over and over again (I play melee for the most part so it was especially noticeable for me). At first, I thought it was by another character but when I was practicing my rotation on a striking dummy I kept hearing that one really noticeable sound and it really got to me. What's worse is it sometimes repeats itself frequently (I often hear it 4 to 5 times in my melee opener sometimes). For me it was higher pitch than the rest of it and louder too; when I had my voice turned lower that specific sound was still audible and the only one in fact.

I have a video recording of the voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yciy...ature=youtu.be

The one I'm talking about specifically is the "ya" sound on the timestamp. It sounds really high pitch and too fast to me and for some reason is a lot more frequent than most of the other voices I hear.

Some people may like it but I personally don't. I like the original voice and I wish I at least have the choice to stick with those.

[LalaLuna]

About a month since this change was implemented, I've noticed several unsettling developments.
- I've shifted to healing entirely, not touching my "main" job Bard anymore.
- I don't feel inclined anymore to level my Warrior beyond doing the Pixie Beast Tribe quests and the weekly chocobo leveling challenge log by doing FATEs. I also find myself muting my character's voice every time I play a melee/physical ranged character, even though I love her voice.
- I'm enjoying the game less than I usually do.


To some degree, part of these elements can be attributed to risking burnout from playing the game for two years non-stop. But this change to battle voice has more and more felt like a travesty towards my character because I regrettably cannot appreciate the changes made and I'm shifting away from any activity where this change is apparent.


I love my character, I love the game, I don't like these added battle voices to my chosen voice. I haven't found any acknowledgement of the concerns mentioned in this thread and haven't yet found an option to opt-out of it.


Please, just make it an option from the menu so people can simply revert to their old sounds or keep the new sounds at their own discretion.

[3c-33]

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I understand what you mean. I remember when I logged in and instantly went to hear the changes for myself having seen it in the patch notes, it felt pretty awful to see what they had done. While I'd intended to go run the new raid with a friend, I ended up backing out and not playing for a few days because of the burnout feeling it immediately gave me, I just did not feel like doing anything

Even though my initial burnout feelings are gone and I'm back to playing regularly, the change still bothers me to no end, and I could only imagine how it must feel for you/others to be affected by it like this, I definitely understand the feeling. I've only been playing for a few months though so I can't imagine what it must be like to use a voice for years only to have it changed like this. (granted, I had literally just fantasia'd from miqo'te to au ra about 2-3 weeks before the change happened, so I was pretty upset what I had just switched to immediately got changed, especially given how much I loved the way it sounded)

Every single time they announce a new hotfix patch I just end up praying they're going to wordlessly do something about it, like with the one coming tomorrow

[Rasen]

I am a Japanese light warrior(HIKA-SEN ).
I'm sorry, forgive me for using Google Translate.

Opinions have also been expressed at the Japanese Forum regarding the Battle Voices added in Patch 5.1.

>Japanese Forum / General Discussion
>5.1追加戦闘ボイスの違和感について
>(Japanese Only)

Like everyone, most of the opinions are uncomfortable, not your character's voice, revert to the previous !, or to the choice system (some people like it).
I posted to tell you that the situation is the same in Japan.

Thank you for reading.