Changing the audio language of a captain?

[Sannan75]

So I just picked up Pommern for coal, had a spare 10 point captain so put them in but it's an anime captain and the voice over is doing my head in :(

I don't want to turn the voices off because they're useful to me but only when I can understand what they're saying and they're several octaves lower...

I've not found any option but thought I'd ask here before swapping them out for a lower point captain, can I make the voice over a normal captain one somehow?

[Netharon]

I'm pretty sure using "National" in the voiceover menu would do just that. Don't use National+ though. Have you tried that?

[Sannan75]

I have but I tried it during a game, maybe if I set it in the port and then enter a game it might change, will try now...

[Sannan75]

Well, that got rid of the annoying anime voice so it's a step forward but it does mean the voice is speaking the language of the ship's nation so i still can't understand them :(

I guess £4.22 to buy a captain isn't the end of the world and will save my sanity :)

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

I think there's an option somewhere in the settings specifically for turning the anime content on and off.

[Netharon]

Originally posted by Totally Innocent Chatbot:

I think there's an option somewhere in the settings specifically for turning the anime content on and off.

Doesn't change the voices. The gear icon only hides camo's.

[Netharon]

Originally posted by Sannan75:

I have but I tried it during a game, maybe if I set it in the port and then enter a game it might change, will try now...

You get used to that actually. Soon, you will be speaking japanese and german in no time! Only a few phrases though.

[Hiei]

If you go into sound mods like Netharon said I'm pretty sure there is an English option. I tend to use regional + as it feels more realistic.

[Sannan75]

Yeah I just tried the Mighty Jingles one in the options to at least go back to English and it would be bearable if they were accurate - I killed an enemy cruiser and the voiceover said I'd sunk an allied carrier...

I think I'll try to get used to National and learn the phrases over time.

[Reaper King]

Originally posted by Lord Nems:

If you go into sound mods like Netharon said I'm pretty sure there is an English option. I tend to use regional + as it feels more realistic.

I do the same. Cause it allows me to use my anime commanders but also means the ships commanders speak there language which makes the game better in my mind.

[DeviousDave]

Originally posted by Sannan75:

So I just picked up Pommern for coal, had a spare 10 point captain so put them in but it's an anime captain and the voice over is doing my head in :(

I don't want to turn the voices off because they're useful to me but only when I can understand what they're saying and they're several octaves lower...

I've not found any option but thought I'd ask here before swapping them out for a lower point captain, can I make the voice over a normal captain one somehow?

Via the standard settings you can't sadly get an anime captain to speak english without using National. Unless you have a captain with a unique voice set (eg. Jingles or one of the WarHammer ones) you can switch to.

Thankfully there is a workaround

Go to: https://aslain.com/index.php?/topic/2020-download-%E2%98%85-world-of-warships-%E2%98%85-modpack/

and get the Aslain WoWs mod pack.

Once you have it and run it (follow instructions) you will be met with a massive list of mods.
Scroll down until you reach the sound section of the mod list and look for the tick boxes next to the three mods - "ARP to normal" - "HSF to normal" and AZUR Lane to normal", tick these boxes and then click the next button.

Follow rest of installation instructions and if done properly the anime voice lines will have been replaced by standard English voice lines.

Either that or from the same section get the Mermaid Wrath voice pack to give you another option in the voices section of WoWS audio options to have a female English speaking crew in an Anime style (personally my favourite voice pack in the game due to the daftness of some of the lines eg. when set on fire "put away those marshmallows and get that fire out (distant sound of multiple awwwwww's)" and upon sinking an enemy Carrier "Ha, Maybe that Carrier should have learned to 'just dodge' "

[Sannan75]

Thanks DeviousDave, I appreciate the amount of detail you went into to help me there and I agree that Mermaid Wrath pack sounds great but I steer clear of mods (even allowed/supported ones) on games like this just to be on the safe side.

[Jackson]

Originally posted by Sannan75:

Thanks DeviousDave, I appreciate the amount of detail you went into to help me there and I agree that Mermaid Wrath pack sounds great but I steer clear of mods (even allowed/supported ones) on games like this just to be on the safe side.

If it's officially supported there really is nothing to worry about. However, it does need to be updated every single patch and that becomes a headache as often as WoWS patches. That's the reason I gave up on mods long ago. (That and most of the ones I wanted got incorporated into the game anyway)

[Vencovsky]

i just use national+ I pretty much memorized already what all the things mean in german + japanese. plus pretty much everything your commander will ever say is simultaneous with a visual queue. like fires, incapacitations, doing critical damage, even being under AA fire... and obviously the quick chat commands are written out in the chat.

[History's Greatest Monster]

Imagine not using ARP Kirishima. Sad. Many such cases.

[Vencovsky]

Originally posted by History's Greatest Monster:

Imagine not using ARP Kirishima. Sad. Many such cases.

its funny when you target a fort with her