EVE General Discussion

I wasn't gonna post anything but I can't stand it any more and I can't find any posts about it.

A little while ago there was a mention in a patch that sounds were fixed so that they diminish with distance again. I had not noticed that they weren't but oh well I may have been too close to the action to notice.

OMFG! I did not know they were gonna make them so that they diminished way way WAY faster with zooming out than they had in the last year and a half almost since I been here.

Were people complaining that the sounds did not dwindle with distance quickly enough for the last year and a half ? ... or did someone just say "... well ... while we are at it lets fade the world sounds WAY faster ... " for the hell of it ?

I can't tell if I am even being SHOT AT undless I am zoomed in enough to almost count the bolt heads on the ship. This is very very important audio input, especially when you are playing more than one account (which is encourged).

When you zoom back enough to see even a decent portion of the battlefield in a small gang fight, you are pulled totally out of the audio of the game in such a way as to not even feel like you are in the battle! ...

One can adjust their world level sounds to a lower level if they are too loud ... but if they diminish to zero very quickly with distance then you cannot turn UP the volume of them!

PLEASE put them back to the way they were or at LEAST some happy medium beween what they were and dwindling to ZERO when you zoom back 10 or so KM to have some kind of decent field of vision.

me

"Heard any funny jokes lately?"

"No, I play Eve"

The entire audio part of Eve needs to be redone from scratch at some point. Atm, it is just not worth turning it on.

-E- Not worth aren't the right words.. It is actually painful to have it on imo.

You may not F****** CARE, but you are ONE PLAYER, do NOT think for a second you speak for anyone but YOURSELF. You are such a bad troll you're not even funny.




A VERY BIG part of ANY gaming experience is sound and any company (hint, hint CCP) who neglects this is doing a great disservice to their game world.

That's why most player's I know actually turn the EVE sound off, right?

Came expecting "Eve has sound?"

Left unsurprised.

But yes, sound is a bit weird with its falloff.

Guess which half this post just put you on.

I usually don't have sound turned on while playing eve. I usually don't because the sound is so horrible that it's not worth having on. EVE's sound needs to be totally reworked, obviously.

CCP really needs to look at a better solution for sound in general.

Perhaps the sounds around your ship should always be audible, in addition to sounds near the observer drone? Most players will play fairly zoomed out, or zooming in and out constantly, so the sound system needs to support this player behavior without jarring changes or silences.

And yes, the fadeout distance isn't adequate if that's the only issue you want to look at.

I play with sound because it provides a strong benefit in small gang warfare. Sound issues NEED to be addressed in a timely manner.

-Liang

This, the sound in Eve is a terrible and very very old joke.