So I hate to be a negative nancy, but I briefly booted into the experimental. and got a chance to hear the new shouts, and, well . . .
I think they make the dwarves sound too happy and excited. The old shouts struck the perfect balance between a blue-collar working man's frustration, and brotherly camaraderie. The new ones seem a little too self-aware ("stone and rock?") and some are just too over-the-top for my tastes. I'm not hearing enough pent-up Dwarven rage behind them, frankly. Sure, as a player, I'm having all kinds of fun, but from a Dwarf's point of view, this is just another day on a job that pays way too little.
This is probably a small thing to complain about, but I wanted to do so before the patch went live. Maybe there's time to inject some iron into them, or make the more over-the-top ones drunk-dwarf-only.
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