Guild Wars 2

My own character never vocalizes during combat anymore. I never hear “Feeling mighty!” or “Not the leg…” or “Exhilirating!” or “Going hypothermic!” any of those kinds of voice overs at all. Not a single buff, debuff or health trigger seems to cause them to go off any more.

How do I fix this? I really miss them. I can’t find any options I may have broken.

Funny enough, I was wondering if there was a way to turn them off. Sometimes they get on my nerves!

Should I post in tech support on this?
My character doesn’t even do the “I need healing!” or ANYTHING anymore. No matter what race/sex/class combo I use I can’t get a single voiceover.
Warrior shouts don’t work.
Necro minion comments don’t work.
Elemental attunement announcements don’t work.
Nothing works.
But they work just fine from other players.
My sound sliders are all 75% or higher.
Please help me out here.

Yeah, I’d certainly say contact support. Theres a bug reporting forum here on the boards:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs

im now having the same issue and its annoying,been happening since yesterday,after a small update,weather that’s the cause i dont know,but hope they fix issue soon,i was wondering if reinstalling software would help?

I tried posting in the bugs forum and got nothing:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Player-Character-Vocals-Not-Playing/first#post1562868

I have now tried:
Deleting local.dat (GW2 auto-rebuilt this, no fix.)
Deleting GW2.dat (GW2 redownloaded this, no fix.)
Deleting GW2.exe (Downloaded a new exe from website, no fix.)
I have done every possible manipulation to in game audio sliders to no effect.

This is a serious issue as far as I am concerned. I do not feel involved in combat and the feedback I receive is weak at best. I feel disconnected.

And now I am not the only one.

Where else does GW2 store settings? There has to be an easy fix for this.

Just adding that a full uninstall, reboot, reinstall also does not fix this.

I’ve scanned the registry and can’t find any entries for GW2.

I can only assume that GW2 is storing my settings configuration on their server as my hotkeys and graphics settings are maintaining through fresh installs.

I’ve got nothing left but to submit a support ticket.

how did you get this to happen and can you tell me how? I’ve been wanting this since beta!

I’ve finally managed to resolve this.
I tracked the problem down to a hardware interaction with my logitech 5.1 speaker system.
A combination of factors was causing all output destined for the central channel to be replaced by a composite from the side speakers.
Turns out all the information for character vocalization is central speaker only I guess.

I have only just over a month or 2 ago started using my Guardian and Warrior and have noticed that I have this issue as well. It seems to be that if I do use a shout I can sometimes hear it very very low and it sounds wierd. But apart from that the other problem I have is that if I use a shout near other players it will instead have THEM say what I should.

TBH I think it’s a soundcard/Graphic card issue. My graphics card is up to date and so is my sound card so I have no idea why this happens…

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I’ve finally managed to resolve this.
I tracked the problem down to a hardware interaction with my logitech 5.1 speaker system.
A combination of factors was causing all output destined for the central channel to be replaced by a composite from the side speakers.
Turns out all the information for character vocalization is central speaker only I guess.

Well heck good work on this, now can you tell me how exactly I can check my setup for the same problem lol?