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One thing EVE needs is an advanced audio setting.
Like a set of sliders to set the volume of different groups of sounds. Let's say armor and shield hardeners are one group, Turning that down will make the constant and annoying sound less intrusive or gone completely, Armor and shield reppers will be another group so you can hear them in action while not being annoyed by the sound of the hardeners. Sensorboosters, ECCM, command links etc. is one group. Guns and launchers another. Ship engines and warp sound is one and so on.

I think a lot more people would play with their sound on (or not zoomed out) if they could set the sound up to their liking.

I play with sound always, but I usualy zoom out to where I don't have to listen to my hardeners.

I think the shield and armor hardeners/reppers should make a quiet "white noise" that doesn't scratch your brain after awhile. Something subtle that you can lightly hear while you're zoomed in, but that doesn't get obnoxious after awhile. Like the sound of a quiet breeze. The shield modules are more the culprits of the obnoxious noises, the armor modules aren't so bad, but I imagine they might get annoying after hearing them for awhile. I don't know...I'm a shield guy.

100% agreement. The warp sounds need work. Seeing as it's like a week away from release and the sounds still needs lots of work....I have to beg you, CCP Devs, don't release it until it's done. I don't care if it doesn't make this expansion, just take the time and do it right.

Wow. You're so right

The new sounds are nice. Except for the annoying buzzer that goes off with all the timers and flags resetting. I keep felling like I answered a question wrong on a game show or something. Put the default to that one on OFF or make shutting it off easier to find...if there is a way...please tell me there is a way?

The lasers for example need some noticable undertone, that will make the laser more sounding, now its just clacking with muffled electronic sounds. But this apply also for blasters and railguns, they just feel too dry now.. couple the tone with a bass and it changes everything...

Quoting for truth.

Sound team, get on fixing those underwhelming new sounds..I want my EVE to leave me stunned both visually AND auditorily! Make it happen.

I'd like to bring attention to the new Warp Drive sound.

I understand that how we perceive sound is a subjective experience.
And with that subjective experience comes a personal expectation of what a particular sound should sound like.

But think about the old sound for a moment and try to replay it in your head.
The old Warp Drive had a BOOOM! to it. It sounded much like an explosion.

This is what I got from wikipedia:
A sonic boom is the sound associated with the shock waves created by an object traveling through the air faster than the speed of sound. Sonic booms generate enormous amounts of sound energy, sounding much like an explosion. The crack of a supersonic bullet passing overhead is an example of a sonic boom in miniature.

In my mind this description fits my expectations of what 'Warp Drive', when initiated, should sound like.
If anything I would have suggested working more in direction of enhancing what was already there.
Maybe making the sound and the graphics happening on screen at the same time, appear even more powerful.

But that's just me.

I do a fair bit of sound design work myself and those who do know just how difficult it is to achieve a sound that you feel satisfied with yourself alone, much less meet the expectations of thousands of people playing EVE.

Anyway, overall I enjoy the new sounds and I appreciate all the hard work that went into the making.

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Agoraxia

The new Medium Blaster sounds are so weak. They were bad before and now its worse. They just sound like toys, not like the massive weapons they are supposed to be.

I'd just like to echo the ambivalence others have noted towards the new warping and gate sounds.

I'm no sound engineer, but it really does feel like some levels are off- most of these additional sounds override the ones they're concurrent with, the racket near gates now is currently dialed at potato out of ten, and the oddly pitched noises your own 'drive makes, seems to detract more from the usual smooth low-level rumble than they give.