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Excessive VO frequency on new releases is really starting to annoy me (Kinda constructive (?))

Malicious Metal·4/12/2018, 11:24:02 AM·16 votes·8,785 views

So, with recent releases I've come to notice a pattern where these new champions, coincidentally mostly female, have an overbearing frequency of voice-lines/grunts/moans that can be extremely annoying when playing against.

It started with Caitlyn's BOOM Headshot, and Taliyah's THROW ANOTHER ROCK but the most recent champion that really annoys me is Irelia.

Wanna know why? SHE MOANS ON LITERALLY EVERY AUTO ATTACK. This leads to whoever plays against her to be assaulted by high pitched yelling and screams that can be extremely infuriating to put up with.

And here's the sad part. These champions have GREAT VO. Taliyah in particular has such a genuine, sweet VO but the enemy never gets to hear that. Instead they get the same sound over and over and over and over and over again and it leads to these champions being really annoying in the sound department.

So, here's a question. Can't riot just tone down the VO frequency when playing against these champions so those of us who play with maxed out voices can enjoy the game without wanting to tear their hair out?

Please, it's really getting on my nerves.

//Rant

18 Comments

RiotWAAARGHbobo4/12/2018, 4:11:07 PM12 votes

Ironically, i believe what your describing is not VO but SFX.
Often called “efforts” these sound fx are frequently tied to animations (rather than the gameplay triggers VO is attached to) .

BUT if you can be more specific it’s more helpful. —name exactly the champion, skin, the action she/he/it are taking that triggers the sound, and suggest potential solves (lower volume, lower frequency, or wrong performance).

We do listen to this sort of feedback— and when we have bandwith adjust stuff (Unless something is already in a VGU)

Infernape4/12/2018, 11:25:05 AM7 votes

SHE MOANS ON LITERALLY EVERY AUTO ATTACK.

Realistically speaking, shouldn't moaning on every AA be Evelynn's thing?

Ultîma4/12/2018, 3:06:38 PM2 votes

Did... did you not play against old Irelia? She would yell while doing Q, say this weird "hghn" line whenever she used E, and yell even more while casting R. Except she had a very small set of lines and effects so you heard the same series of battlecries throughout the entire game. I personally love the new militant personality they've injected into Irelia, and think that the rift would feel a lot more alive if characters reacted a bit more dynamically rather than have all their lines only played to the summoner, or during taunts. Imo this new direction is amazing and I hope we reach a level of character interaction close to DOTA 2 eventually.

ReisenTheDos4/12/2018, 5:01:54 PM2 votes

I'm glad I know I'm not the only one that is annoyed with Taliyah's "Throw another rock!" line. It's especially frustrating to hear it all the time in ARAM.

SEKAI4/12/2018, 4:22:14 PM1 votes

I think it had started with Azir, actually, where the enemy players basically only hear him yelling "ONWARD" and "TRUST IN ME" non stop for the entire game.

But then while that can be annoying, there's also Rakan and Xayah who are on the complete opposite of that spectrum where they chatter way too much across way too many things, and so you just want them to shut up instead.

Riot needs to control the lines available to the opponent so it's not always either complete barebones 2 lines repeated for eternity or its exact opposite.