PSA: Godzilla vs. Kong voiceovers

[YabbaCoe]

Commanders,

A great battle between Godzilla and Kong has just begun in World of Warships, and we wanted to address the most frequent questions about the addition of the two Titans to the game.

 

Why do Godzilla and Kong's unique voiceovers sound simultaneously with the standard voice commands?

We strive for voiceovers to not only to be interesting and of high quality, but also informative. To this end, we created a new type of sound playback which combines the clarity of standard notifications and the unique roars of these specific characters. We understand that this might not have been clear from the descriptions in the article and shop bundles, so we will update these texts in a week or less.

 

The unique Titan voiceovers are rather quiet —will this be fixed?

Yes, in one of the nearest game updates, we will be amplifying the unique sound effects for both Godzilla and Kong so that they stand out more.

 

And what If I'm not happy with this new type of dual voiceover?

You may request a refund for purchased bundles which resulted in obtaining a commander — even if you’ve played more than one battle with them — until 23 of May 2021 23:59 UTC

 

Why do Godzilla and Kong not appear on my ship's deck in battle?

This decision has two main reasons:

1. The two Titans are truly legendary creatures — having them sink to the bottom of the sea because of an unlucky battle would hardly be a dignified fate for them
2. Models of their size would have a significant impact on estimating which ship parts are being hit by their opponents' shells. Even in comparison to other camouflages with non-standard geometry, the massive Titans would have a much bigger effect on aiming at the ship.

 

Thank you for your attention and we apologize for any confusion. We will do our best to avoid such situations in future.

 

The World of Warships team

[Nauseica]

First you make a big event advertisement and then you make it so bad that even shooting your foot with a bazooka will be better than what you did on this event and now you atleast you do the proper thing with a refunds.

 

Why the hell you didnt fix the event in the 1st place ??
its not hard you just dotn care and in case people weren't complaining enough you wouldn't bother to refund but yeah now we care

 

I have a friend that was saying like " No excuses"
Legendary creatures .. hahahaaa ... legendary creatures especially Godzilla can breath underwater eh :p and im sure Kong can swim :p
Hitbox ... hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ... scorpion camo on Yamato its also huge

 

i wont continue .... its beyond funny the fail on this event
but who cares next one you will do better right !!!

 

[Maris_Piper]

Instead of Blundering on, Listening to No one and thinking only of Profit take a look at what you have become and how your reputation is down in the Gutter, One Failed Cash Grab after Another and no real reason as the players spend more Money when treated properly. The sad thing is it Will Happen Again because You Think You Know Best when clearly that is not the case.

[MrWastee]

2 hours ago, YabbaCoe said:

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 having them sink to the bottom of the sea because of an unlucky battle would hardly be a dignified fate for them

[...]

.... the rights owners said lol.... funny ngh, the ones of transformers had no concerns oviously

[DeviousDave02]

10 hours ago, YabbaCoe said:

1. The two Titans are truly legendary creatures — having them sink to the bottom of the sea because of an unlucky battle would hardly be a dignified fate for them

But, but, but... Godzilla is Amphibious....  

 

 

[WorthyOpponent]

20 hours ago, YabbaCoe said:

 We strive for voiceovers to not only to be interesting and of high quality, but also informative. To this end, we created a new type of sound playback which combines the clarity of standard notifications and the unique roars of these specific characters.

I'm sorry but what? I don't take this as an excuse. We have Cap (and I think a US commander) speaking complete gibberish and Mighty Jingles literally giving the wrong info on purpose. We have National captains which most of us don't understand but use them because they sound cool. We have anime commanders that only speak Japanese. How many of the total playerbase knows Japanese? You could've just made them roars. We never needed to know what they're saying in the first place. Chatlog was always enough.

 

Edit: Nevermind the US captain part I remembered it wrong. It's only Cap speaking gibberish.

[Asatori]

3 hours ago, WorthyOpponent said:

I'm sorry but what? I don't take this as an excuse. We have Cap (and I think a US commander) speaking complete gibberish and Mighty Jingles literally giving the wrong info on purpose. We have National captains which most of us don't understand but use them because they sound cool. We have anime commanders that only speak Japanese. How many of the total playerbase knows Japanese? You could've just made them roars. We never needed to know what they're saying in the first place. Chatlog was always enough.

the Public Relations intern that was put in charge of makeing up this BS statement clearly doesn't play the game. 

[YabbaCoe]

Před 4 hodinami WorthyOpponent řekl/a:

I'm sorry but what? I don't take this as an excuse. We have Cap (and I think a US commander) speaking complete gibberish and Mighty Jingles literally giving the wrong info on purpose. We have National captains which most of us don't understand but use them because they sound cool. We have anime commanders that only speak Japanese. How many of the total playerbase knows Japanese? You could've just made them roars. We never needed to know what they're saying in the first place. Chatlog was always enough.

We know about those commanders, especially Cap, who is a British commander.

As explained, we wanted to have those Godzilla and Kong commanders to apart from just roaring, to give also relevant commands. That is the reasons, why we made them in a ways, how they are now and what wasn't clearly mentioned before.

Their voiceovers are still unique, being this hybrid version, though.

[Asatori]

7 minutes ago, YabbaCoe said:

We know about those commanders, especially Cap, who is a British commander.

As explained, we wanted to have those Godzilla and Kong commanders to apart from just roaring, to give also relevant commands. That is the reasons, why we made them in a ways, how they are now and what wasn't clearly mentioned before.

Their voiceovers are still unique, being this hybrid version, though.

I used my BS radar consumeable and I definitely detected BS. 

[WorthyOpponent]

2 minutes ago, YabbaCoe said:

We know about those commanders, especially Cap, who is a British commander.

As explained, we wanted to have those Godzilla and Kong commanders to apart from just roaring, to give also relevant commands. That is the reasons, why we made them in a ways, how they are now and what wasn't clearly mentioned before.

 Their voiceovers are still unique, being this hybrid version, though.

Even then you could make this way better. Here are some recommendations from me: 

 

You could make the roar before or after the captain talks to make it look like Godzilla and Kong are responding or they're being translated, instead of right underneath. The way it is in the game sounds off. Like someone is using voice changer to make himself sound like a roar but you can hear the original voice as well.

 

 

If you create new voicelines to put them with sound, that would also make the captains feel way more unique in their own way. I'm no scriptwriter, but imagine this:

Devastating Strike happens

Godzilla roars

After Godzilla finishes its roar, a crewmate yells from the ship

"Ohoho! He enjoyed that!"

 

Or:

You spot torpedoes

Captain wars you about torpedoes

Godzilla roars later, because then it sees the torps coming itself.

[YabbaCoe]

Před 28 minutami WorthyOpponent řekl/a:

Even then you could make this way better. Here are some recommendations from me: 

 

You could make the roar before or after the captain talks to make it look like Godzilla and Kong are responding or they're being translated, instead of right underneath. The way it is in the game sounds off. Like someone is using voice changer to make himself sound like a roar but you can hear the original voice as well.

 

 

If you create new voicelines to put them with sound, that would also make the captains feel way more unique in their own way. I'm no scriptwriter, but imagine this:

Devastating Strike happens

Godzilla roars

After Godzilla finishes its roar, a crewmate yells from the ship

"Ohoho! He enjoyed that!"

 

Or:

You spot torpedoes

Captain wars you about torpedoes

Godzilla roars later, because then it sees the torps coming itself.

Yeah, probably we should have and thank you for your suggestion.

Unfortunately currently we can't change those voicelines...

[Carandraug]

20 hours ago, YabbaCoe said:

We understand that this might not have been clear from the descriptions in the article and shop bundles, so we will update these texts in a week or less.

You mean after you already sold some more to unsuspecting naive poor souls ? This is so blatantly dishonest it's not even funny. After all the crapstorm with the fraudulent (yes the Cyprus regulation authority already ruled on that) Santa boxes and purposely misleading descriptions... Saying you would fix it in a week or less is disgusting and pathetic to the highest level. Once more proving you have zero respect for your customers, it's not even about patching things ingame, but CHANGING TEXT ON THE WEBSITE. Very hard to do comrade. But that would mean no more sales of scam bundles. Insane. And once again this info about possible refunds is buried here on the forums, it should have been up top the news in the client and possible even as a pop-up ingame. 

[WorthyOpponent]

39 minutes ago, YabbaCoe said:

Yeah, probably we should have and thank you for your suggestion.

Unfortunately currently we can't change those voicelines...

I understand, and I don't expect any new changes either. I just don't want the whole hybrid voiceline concept to be scrapped for the future. It can be cool for upcoming events.

[SubAbschaumSupreme]

Vor 20 Stunden, YabbaCoe sagte:

Why do Godzilla and Kong not appear on my ship's deck in battle?

This decision has two main reasons:

1. The two Titans are truly legendary creatures — having them sink to the bottom of the sea because of an unlucky battle would hardly be a dignified fate for them

You know that this argument is exact the argument why the nazis didn't name their ships "Deutschland" or "Grossdeutschland"? 

 

Holy crap WG that is a new level of Niveau. Better rethink your pr strategy. 

@YabbaCoe @Sehales

[Dante_AK]

Shame     ding dong, shame      ding dong, shame         ding dong...

[britinmadrid]

1 hour ago, YabbaCoe said:

As explained, we wanted to have those Godzilla and Kong commanders to apart from just roaring, to give also relevant commands.

YabbaCoe, we know which commands we gave as we pressed the F1, F2, F3 buttons et cetera. Consequently, we don't need to have those self same commands echoing back at us in our own headphones/speakers. Can WG not implement a system whereby we here the very expensive Premium content we pay for whilst the other players hear the 'normal' commands?

 

14 minutes ago, Carandraug said:

You mean after you already sold some more to unsuspecting naive poor souls ?

True! Making a slight volume adjustment after already having banked everyone's money .... well, you can make your own conclusions.

 

P.S. Thanks, Flamuu!

[ThePurpleSmurf]

20 hours ago, Nauseica said:

Why the hell you didnt fix the event in the 1st place ??

It seem to be a pattern for a while now. They throw stuff out that is all messed up to see if they can get away with it. Only if the uproar is too big and too many people complain they make a half-assed effort and try to fix it. Of course they make it sound as if they would be super generous by allowing refunds and things like this and coming up with an insincere apology, blaming it on "not clear" description or confusing wording.

In reality it's just a rip-off and hoping that enough fall for it without getting called out. And if they get caught, those kinda low in the company hierarchy have to go to the forums and apologize for decisions some greedy manager(s) a couple steps further up the ladder have made. Crap like this repeats itself every few months since years. Shady business practice is a habit and habits are not easy to shake off.

[Starchy_Tuber]

2 hours ago, YabbaCoe said:

We know about those commanders, especially Cap, who is a British commander.

As explained, we wanted to have those Godzilla and Kong commanders to apart from just roaring, to give also relevant commands. That is the reasons, why we made them in a ways, how they are now and what wasn't clearly mentioned before.

Their voiceovers are still unique, being this hybrid version, though.

Uniquely rubbish is the most accurate review.

Honestly WeeGee this is pretty low-ball even for you guys.

Its a single roar-type which is, quite literally, the minimum effort required to fulfil the barest qualification of "kong"ness"...and some of these other excuses are rather pathetic ....  I mean, render the models but don't change the hitbox - problems solved.
You already do this for in-game models like the huge scorpion, so saying that you cant do it is pretty obviously not true.

It really seems like you cant even put in the effort to come up with decent excuses nowadays, let alone decent product.

[jayceedee]

Why don't you add a button in the game that deducts doubloons for nothing in return, some people will press it accidently and you will make more money this way.

[Asatori]

3 minutes ago, jayceedee said:

Why don't you add a button in the game that deducts doubloons for nothing in return, some people will press it accidently and you will make more money this way.

It's allready in the game kinda, it's this: 

[blademansw]

20 minutes ago, Asatori said:

It's allready in the game kinda, it's this: 

This ^^. Great mod in Aslains called "Stingy by default", or thats what it used to be called. Stops all these sneaky default selections to spend your dubs and credits.

And yes, they are sneaky, its relying on people not noticing.

 

Another example of WG treating its playerbase like cash sponges to be squeezed to the last drop, not unlike this current fiasco where they have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar yet again.

[TheBicentennialman]

On 5/13/2021 at 3:00 PM, YabbaCoe said:

Commanders,

A great battle between Godzilla and Kong has just begun in World of Warships, and we wanted to address the most frequent questions about the addition of the two Titans to the game.

 

Why do Godzilla and Kong's unique voiceovers sound simultaneously with the standard voice commands?

We strive for voiceovers to not only to be interesting and of high quality, but also informative. To this end, we created a new type of sound playback which combines the clarity of standard notifications and the unique roars of these specific characters. We understand that this might not have been clear from the descriptions in the article and shop bundles, so we will update these texts in a week or less.

 

The unique Titan voiceovers are rather quiet —will this be fixed?

Yes, in one of the nearest game updates, we will be amplifying the unique sound effects for both Godzilla and Kong so that they stand out more.

 

And what If I'm not happy with this new type of dual voiceover?

You may request a refund for purchased bundles which resulted in obtaining a commander — even if you’ve played more than one battle with them — until 23 of May 2021 23:59 UTC

 

Why do Godzilla and Kong not appear on my ship's deck in battle?

This decision has two main reasons:

1. The two Titans are truly legendary creatures — having them sink to the bottom of the sea because of an unlucky battle would hardly be a dignified fate for them
2. Models of their size would have a significant impact on estimating which ship parts are being hit by their opponents' shells. Even in comparison to other camouflages with non-standard geometry, the massive Titans would have a much bigger effect on aiming at the ship.

 

Thank you for your attention and we apologize for any confusion. We will do our best to avoid such situations in future.

 

The World of Warships team

 

[TheBicentennialman]

^^^^^^

And what If I'm not happy with this new type of dual voiceover?

You may request a refund for purchased bundles which resulted in obtaining a commander — even if you’ve played more than one battle with them — until 23 of May 2021 23:59 UTC

[SFCGunny313]

Going to give myself a pat on my own shoulder here - because I stopped funding Wargaming some time ago.  I don't purchase anything any longer.  And this fiasco is 100% proof why every player should do the same.

 

The level of dishonesty by Wargaming has reached epic levels now.  The attempts at explaining and deflecting have reached Putin levels of excellence.

[Confusticator]

Just got the Godzilla commander after winning the free container and there's no roar, just the Japanese voiceover. I may be missing something somewhere in the settings idk. The reasons for doing the dual voiceover are pretty thin anyways as there was a rat commander from another crossover (warhammer I think) that just grunted and shrieked...very informative.

Makes the whole event a bit of a waste of time and effort for everyone including WG, make the most of having access to these characters! If Legendary didn't want to give you more than one roar (which I doubt as it's more press for them and probably much more cash) then why bother even trying to make a commander for the titan characters?? Do a godzilla or kong ship horn.