EVE General Discussion

Not terrible, but it needs moar boom.

Corny as duck and VERY lacking in terms of fluidity :P

Mass Effect has the BEST sound effects related to space weapons

i agree my fellow deteis

Yeah noticed that earlier after trying to force myself to enjoy the Legions medium pulses. Breaking glass in there for sure. DO NOT WANT.

Hey, personally I am very grateful for any work done on sound. I love music, I love SFX in all types of media and games.

My my bit of advice would be, the sounds just need to be more powerful. The weapons we are dealing with are meant to be gargantuan in size. I would love to hear things like lasers rumbling on the charge up (as it cycles round) then as you fire I want to hear that im dishing out god knows how much power into space.

For instance I would say that Gallentes blasters and rails, along with Amarrs lasers should sound incredibly powerful, very mechanical and very booming. These are huge machines with incredible amounts of power surging through them, keeping beams focused and blaster cores stable.

I think the missile sounds for Caldari are very good for the most part :)

Where as auto-cannons and artillery could still do with tweaking. The artillery, again, needs to sound more powerful. Autos on the other hand just need to sound like they are firing for a bit longer. As it stands it sounds like they are constantly on burst fire. It would be nice if it changed up a little and some shots were more like long bursts or even full auto fire if that makes sense.

The new sounds summarized:

Blasters: slight improvement (since they're shotguns in space why do they still sound like 'chup chup').
Railguns: Good, I like em.

AC: suppose to sound like machine guns, atm it sounds like a broken blender
Artillery: suppose to sound like well, Artillery... but currently reminds of a whack-a-mole sound

Pulse: Cycled lasers, quick burst but right now it goes 'piup piup' rather than pew pew
Beams/tach: Long range powerful oversized lasers that go like a someone needs viagra

Missiles: Fine

The conclusion: the gun sounds are ALL a bit meh. It needs moar power.

the new sounds suck... pulse lasers sound exactly like the autocannons

If you think Autocannons should sound ANYTHING like a machine gun... you're doing it wrong

This is just an automattic Bofors 40mm firing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYVxlst6p6k

THIS is the 155mm howitzer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoZ1900AhDU <---on par with 150mm 200mm autocannons for Frigates.

This.... THIS is a video of the 400mm German mortars in WWII and the 800mm Schwerer Gustav. By all means say autocannons should sould like machine guns. (try to listen through the German propaganda music)

This ---> Is a video of real life test firings of true autocannons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ORo7L9iyC4

Chain guns by comparison http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ORo7L9iyC4

(by the way i know what you meant. machine guns aka rapid fire but even then they need to be fired in bursts. The issue is you cannot compare a machine gun to a autocannon/rotary autocannon or even a chain gun even in current standards in real life tech)

By real life comparison the sounds of autocannons/artillery in game are dull and nowhere near correct (you really wanna hear 800mm artillery cannons firing 10 rounds or so a second?). But for a game they arent bad.

And exactly what noise would a weapon firing in space make?

None.

QED.

They should spend time on fixing LOS - tell me how can I be hit by a laser when I'm behind an asteroid?

We need moar bass !

And not only from lasers ! For example, firing with a neutron blaster II should reflect, somehow, to an external viewer, that you're firing with the most powerful weapon (I hear by that higher DPS) of every sub-cap ship in EVE. Feel the Void L ammos, feel the two full months training time.

Stuff like that.