PLEASE revert the new survivor voices

Try Lisa Garland, Sheva, or Rose Marigold. I always thought they were funnier than Steve anyway.

Sad to see steagull go though.

We need to bring back Stevegull. It's pain to hear his screams gone.

If BHVR REALLY wants a new voice, but it in a skin instead of replacing the default Steve voice in general.

Please BHVR, if you actually care about the community, bring back Stevegull!

I dunno, the explody notification noises are easily 100 times worse to listen to with headphones than any of the screams. Maybe they should fix that first.

I feel like there's also a bit of a generational divide going on in gaming, between the super serious younger gamers who grew up with the rise of e-sports playing with their headsets and old timers like me who usually play sat on a couch with all the sound coming out of the TV set. None of this stuff matters if you play the game like that.

Elodie is good for Scene Partner as well if you don't want to spend big money.

Of course. I think people might be mistaking my intent to only have it only apply to survivor voices for some reason (was just pointing out what they have actively addressed about the issue, and promised to take action on,) but the point was that the entire game needs a normalization pass and that people are more than happy to take advantage of how poor it is currently addressed. Its also not something that requires some kind of 5 month initiative, the tools and ability required are not barriers to achieving it, which makes the promise of action years ago much more telling.

Should also mention that headphones are unfortunately the objectively correct decision for the amount of audio queues and how badly they are balanced in the game, though I completely understand your point about the loudness being less of an issue when you can just turn the speakers down. Unfortunately multiple aspects of tracking and tells come from audio queues, and many of them are easily obfuscated by other, louder noises. Having to have the volume up on headphones in order to hear someone's footsteps while they're running behind a wall on a map full of sand makes the stuff like explosion sounds or constant screams much more of an issue than they should be, before even getting into how it can impact people with hearing disorders. Maybe someone at BHVR likes the absurd audio balancing turning everything into a constant string of jumpscares, but it's an extremely unnecessary accessibility issue that goes beyond just relevant disabilities. Things like the loud noise notification being spammed like you mentioned are completely related to the concept of normalization of game audio, its about attacking the extreme highs and lows of volume in a way that reduces peaking and unnecessary fluctuations in the loudest and quietest sounds you hear in the game.

Even in stuff like the old doom engine it could be done by simply assigning float values to each file in a text document, and giving the player the ability to choose between presets. A free program like Audacity can be used to compare the dB values of extreme sounds and find said float value options without any audio engineering background. I obviously don't know how that type of work would translate to their environment internally, but it can't be something that takes years to even approach for survivor voices, let alone the rest of the sounds in the game. And the best part:

it can be entirely optional, like the visual heartbeat.

Depending on how it would be have to be accomplished, it might not even require duplicate adjusted files. These types of things can potentially be incorporated as simply as tying a single statement to a option. Its not the level of trying to rework smerch for the 90th time, or wasting tons of time on doomed reworks like the infamous Twins one, the difficulties with the concept are entirely dependent on how easy or difficult it is to incorporate a simple system into the game.

His new voice is so lifeless and generic. Is Elodie the only person left with a good scene partner voice?

I know so much of the dbd community are mad about this update. Even if you didn’t like the joke you can’t tell me you never chuckled when you heard the scream in your game. They can even keep all the other new voice lines just BRING BACK THE OLD SCREAM!

Eddie absolutely sounds nothing like Joseph Quinn. Don't you guys want us to buy your content? He doesn't even look like Eddie either.

It makes me think of when they got rid of Maurice just because. They might add the screams back in, but since he's licensed who knows. They did claim that things will be reverted if the outcry is loud enough.

They paid all that money for those voicelines, especially when they're licensed, so unfortunately giving us the option to opt out seems conceptually like a nono. I really miss the "silence" of older DBD.

This.. actually makes me angry

Good riddance to that annoying nonsense 🙄

I always dodged Steve once that became popular while playing both Killer and Survivor

It was annoying and not funny. Steve is one of my P100 Survivors and I'm glad it is gone.

I am now telling you that I never once chuckled when I heard Steve's old scream, not even a smirk

Same here.

You mentioned lobby dodging and anyone would dodge you based on how you play if they knew. You also expressed gladness at a change that reduces dodging yet you think it's funny people dodge you for playing Sable. If you really cared about dodging wouldn't you play someone else?

No one mentioned lobby dodging until you did and now you don't want the topic to be lobby dodging.

I've read complaints in general about the new voice actors but at the very least please bring back Steve's old scream! It was fun! I loved hearing it as killer, made the matches more enjoyable and silly!

Because why people lobby dodge seems to matter more than the lobby dodging itself, since you've said you play Sable because people hate her and dodge. Just be consistent. You either care about an issue or you don't. If you don't like Steve just say so but don't make up reasons why it's a good thing that he's been changed by assuming people dodge him because of Scene Partner.