Roar Forever — Changelog

Release notes for the standalone player voice-emote sound addon.

0.5.7-beta — 2026-10-12

• Clarified the options note: Roar Forever restores built-in World of Warcraft voice-emote sounds; it does not add or bundle audio.
• Restored voices no longer overlap: starting a new restored voice stops the previous one.
• Lowered the restored-emote duplicate cooldown from 0.30s to 0.07s so rapid repeats can restart sooner.

0.5.6-beta — 2026-10-12

• Fixed "Interface action failed because of an AddOn" on /train and faction cries. Restored the working C_ChatInfo.SendChatMessage path and send the custom /e line immediately on the slash/keybind call stack instead of after C_Timer.After, which Forever treats as an automated chat action.
• Kept the 0.5.5 faction-cry fix: /forthehorde and /forthealliance still announce from the slash command even when DoEmote is a no-op.

0.5.5-beta — 2026-10-12

• Fixed faction-cry chat announcements so /forthehorde and /forthealliance send their distinctive /e line from the slash command even when DoEmote does nothing. A follow-up 0.5.6 fix restored the safe chat API path after /train broke.

0.5.4-beta — 2026-10-12

• Restores the missing /forthehorde and /forthealliance faction cries using the original race/sex-specific voice assets contained in the World of Warcraft Forever client.
• Added /forthealliance (alias /fta) for Alliance characters, with the same announcement, multiplayer, group/raid, options, and /rf test support as /forthehorde / /fth.
• Verified Alliance voices for Human, Dwarf, Gnome, and Night Elf (male and female). No Skyborne faction-cry line was found for either faction.
• Shared faction-emote handling for both cries. Forever still has no native emote tokens, so the cheer animation may be missing until Blizzard wires them; the addon keeps calling DoEmote("FORTHEHORDE") and DoEmote("FORTHEALLIANCE") for forward compatibility.

0.5.3-beta — 2026-10-12

• Added /forthehorde (alias /fth) for Horde characters. Forever still has the race/sex “For the Horde!” voice files, but does not wire the emote, so Roar Forever plays them and sends a distinctive chat line other Roar Forever users can hear.
• Verified Orc, Tauren, Troll, and Undead male/female FileDataIDs in the Forever client. No Skyborne for-horde line was found yet.
• Forever’s EmotesText has no FORTHEHORDE token yet, so the native cheer animation may not play until Blizzard wires it. The addon keeps calling DoEmote("FORTHEHORDE") so a future client build can pick it up automatically.

0.5.2-beta — 2026-10-11

• Skyborne already have a client /roar. Roar Forever no longer double-plays roar for yourself or for Skyborne group members. Other races still get the addon roar there. Nearby non-grouped Skyborne roars are still restored.

0.5.1-beta — 2026-10-07

• Stopped group-member /train from playing twice. Like the other non-roar voices, train is left to the game in a party or raid.

0.5.0-beta — 2026-10-07

• Added a movable Warcraft-style options window, opened with /rf or /rf config.
• Added individual switches for all 20 supported emote categories. Aliases share one switch.
• Added speaker buttons that preview a random mapped sound across all races and genders, including the full joke and flirt pools. Previews work with automatic playback disabled and never send chat messages.
• Added a separate switch for the /train chat announcement. Turning it off leaves the native train emote available.
• Bundled English, German, French, Spanish, and Russian emote detection and menu labels; English GB and Spanish MX use their corresponding language packs.
• Replaced broad keyword detection with full client-message templates from Forever build 1.60.1.70009. Custom emote chat is accepted only for the exact train announcement.
• Fixed player identity checks so a different GUID cannot be mistaken for the local player or a group member just because names match.
• Kept the existing congratulations ding exclusion unchanged.
• Settings use the existing account-wide RoarForeverDB; prior on/off settings are preserved and new switches default to on.

Validation: Lua 5.1 checks cover 593 localized template cases and options, previews, train announcements, saved-option loading, and identity regressions. Actual translated-client behavior and UI appearance still require in-game validation.

0.4.7 — 2026-09-30

• Fixed a Lua error that could fire when a party or raid member used a voiced emote such as /oom.

0.4.6 — 2026-09-26

• /train now sends "blows a train whistle. Choo choo!" so other people using Roar Forever can hear it, including in a party or raid.
• Restored the /whistle sound for nearby players.

0.4.5 — 2026-09-26

• Restored nearby-player voices for /cry, /congrats / /congratulate, and /followme.

0.4.4 — 2026-09-26

• Restored nearby-player voices for /oom, /sigh, and /charge.

0.4.3 — 2026-09-26

• Restored nearby-player voices for /healme, /rasp, and /flirt.
• In a party or raid, only /roar is restored. The other voices are left to the game.
• /rf off turns Roar Forever off. /rf on turns it back on.

0.4.2 — 2026-09-25

• Restored nearby-player voices for /flee and /retreat. Both use the flee voice.
• Restored nearby-player voices for /welcome.
• Restored nearby-player voices for /yes and /no.

0.4.1 — 2026-09-25

• Added Skyborne voices for roar, cheer, laugh, and joke.
• /joke and /silly now pick a random line from that character's full set of joke lines.
• /moo stays Tauren-only.

0.4.0 — 2026-09-25

• Expanded Roar Forever beyond /roar to other missing player voice emotes.
• Added nearby-player voices for /cheer, /laugh / /lol, /joke / /silly, and Tauren /moo.
• Your own normal voiced emotes are left to the client. /roar still plays for you as well.
• /rf test can try roar, cheer, laugh, joke, and moo. /rf status lists the voices mapped for your character.
• /train is not restored. Forever does not announce another player's train emote.

0.3.0 — 2026-09-20

• Published Roar Forever as a standalone sound-only addon.
• Retained racial voice playback for detected /roar emotes and the short duplicate-playback cooldown.
• Included sound testing and status commands: /rf test, /rf status, and /rf id <FileDataID>.
• Reduced the install package to two runtime files: RoarForever.toc and RoarForever.lua.
• Removed ability-triggered emotes, their configuration window, saved profiles, and recovery setup from the public addon.
• Requires no saved settings, directory links, or account-specific configuration.

Earlier combined-addon development is outside the scope of this standalone changelog and remains available in repository history.