Some input on how to make player characters feel more unique, which I rarely see in other players’ feedback, that I think would make the game feel more interesting and help for immersion and longevity:
More hairstyles & faces, as well as the possibility to adjust character height
Apart from the obvious time and effort it requires from the character designers, this shouldn’t be a huge thing and not difficult to get cleared from GW but add lots of value in enabling players to make their character feel more unique. And seeing as setting character height is available in character creation in the first place, enabling adjustments of height post-creation feels like a no-brainer.
Additional voice actors, or at least voice/pitch variations
Having only 3 voices per gender and class makes it difficult to differentiate player characters. Having 2 players with the same VA in a game (which happens very often) is really immersion-breaking. Getting additional VA’s is probably a huge ask, but making it possible to adjust voice pitch would be an easier way to get players to add additional personality to their character.
New voice lines
Almost as difficult/costly/time-consuming as introducing additional VA’s, but i had to include it in the list. Having this would add a lot to making runs feel more varied though.
Feel free to post thoughts on how possible it would be to see any of these changes happening.
Already planned (Confirmation is somewhere here), but it’s not a priority for them atm)
The only reason new voice actors would be needed is if a new archetype appear.
Already exist, mostly on the Veteran atm, when they have face mask/gasmasks
Putting a 4th voice actor (With would be about 7 voice actor in total) would not change anything about that problem, the only way to mostly fix it, would be to be able to place ranked personalities (Where player will take the personality that they chose if it’s available, leaving only the same archetype+same gender being problematic)
That’s already happening, like we got voice lines about the Lions’ return, and we saw not so long ago on of the VA post something to their insta about recording new voice lines. Vermintide also had that, and it’s much less difficult than taking new VA.
Also while the archetype would have common voice lines, there would benefit from Class specific voice lines (Ability, but also shout button and stuff like that)
I’m arguing another reason would be to make the game feel less repetitive. And since one of their motives not to have set characters as in V2 was to enable players to create their own hero, more voices/personalities would add to that imo.
Sure, but not really what I meant. I’m thinking an actual slider where we adjust the pitch of our chosen voice. Doesn’t have to be extremely advanced, could be like 3-5 pitch thresholds and set to not get too meme-y (like ultra-low or high-pitched). Wouldn’t require any new VA work but could lead to loads of variation and personalizing of one’s character.