I’ve been playing the game with sounds on lately, and while the crashing gems are a lovely flashback to the earlier PQ games, I’m finding some of the “hit” noises are … not so pleasant. I’d love some variation, or an easy way to keep the gem sounds but not the grunting.
On to details.
First off, the female shaman sounds like she’s enjoying being beaten up far, far too much. I get that it’s hard to make a good grunting noise (more on that later) but being slugged shouldn’t sound pornographic. Am I the only one who hears this? Most of the other grunting is, well, grunting, but hers sound way more like moans.
Secondly, there’s little variation in hit noises that I’ve heard. There seems to be little hit, big hit, dead noises. When a fight goes on and on for several rounds, especially in a pvp mirror match, hearing the same grunt a dozen times in a row is painful. It’d be nice to get some additional variations, maybe “ow!” Or “gah!” Instead of just “ungh!”. I understand that there’s only so many ways to make a pained grunt, but there is possible variation, and I’d appreciate it!
Finally, many of the monsters sounds less than scary. They’re supposed to be big beasts, but the griffons, for one example, sound like a pissed off parrot, not something I’d run from in terror. I don’t know if it’s pitch, tone or something else, but I know it must be possible to give them SFX that match their appearance.
EDIT: Why does the wolf bark when it does the howl power? Why doesn’t it howl?
I know this is low priority, but what else are the forums for.
Female shaman and female assassin hits are too sexual-adjacent
Female necromancer is just… really kinda odd to the point of comical
Centaur hoof noises are comical, and death sound is, again, too “sexy”
Every character/enemy has too few sounds they cycle through, especially since the same PC/enemy combo usually means the same hit type received by the player, repeatedly, with the same resulting sound, repeatedly
In addition, balance for the the voices and the sound effects seems really off to me. The non-voice SFX are SO. DAMN. LOUD. It would be nice to be able to control the voices and the SFX independently from each other.
No hate intended to the folks who recorded these voices, but… add more budget, and if you don’t have a sound director, please get one.
I normally have the sound muted, but I changed to a new phone, hadn’t turned the sound down and was enjoying a few battles with better performance.
Enjoying the music, some of the sounds effects, clippity cloppity as the centaur enters, and then a Wolf did a Howl attack - the barking just cracked me up. Was expecting an Awwoooooooo, howl to the moon sound effect. Got more of a bark bark bark, where’s my dinner, who’s a good boy kinda vibe
What absolutely kills me in the game is the sound the female shaman makes when she gets hit. Lol every single time she gets hit she whimpers! I had to delete her and make a male shaman. Lol
Yes!!! I really wish they’d change the sounds of the female shaman for this reason - she and the dark elf both sound like they’re enjoying the pain WAY too much
