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You didn't read the whole thread, did you Gizznitt?

While I miss the old sounds, and the new sounds will never quite be "right" because they're just plain different from what I was comfortable with, I do respect CCP's artistic autonomy. The visual and audio landscape of EVE is quite enjoyable!

I should stop complaining so much, right?

Caldari stations you say.
Let me check it out - we moved some stuff around to save memory load and this could be one of the bugs related to it.

aye and nay.
we listen. It depends on the complaint and the tone of it.

And I understand that changes are never good in something as old, good and lore controlled, as EVE.

That last part I can't do much about, this late for Rubicon and it's slightly more complex to change than just saying it - but sure, we can have a look at it.

I'll check out the screech sound you mention, I'm not sure I follow, because I believe there is only a countdown tick and a small confirmation sound - But if you do have the sliders turned down and only your UI slider up, then it may be a bit much.

Yeah that's some Crimewatch audio warnings that triggers when effects are in place. On the video that's probably the weapon timer, but mostly it's the PvE capsuleer logoff timer that's causing the complaints.

The idea is that as long as you have the aggro of the NPCs, firing or not, the timer is stuck at 5:00 minuts and it buzzs once to indicate its presence. That's why not everybody is annoyed by this : if you PvE solo without incursions or sleepers you only hear it once.

But when there are multiple players (or drones) on grid, NPCs starts switching targets. And when you're not their target, the timer naturally starts to countdown. If you use your guns, the timer is put back at 5:00, making the buzzing sound again.
And in PvE, as your targets are numerous and fragile, you always switch targets, which implies weapons automatically deactivating when your target explodes (timer starts to countdown again), then weapons reactivating when you fire on the next ennemy, AGAIN reseting the timer and making the buzzing sound.

That screech, appears also when NPC's approach, it not coming from the timer itself.
will have to check out how this is called in the game.

because that sound comes even if the timer is there or not.
I know because I get it all the time and I use it as a warning when mining and rats show up.
but it could be turned down, certainly.

MORE: Got it - it appears whenever an act against you is committed, it doesn't have to be your own timer which is activated.
I'll check if there is a quick solution to this.

that is definitely a bug - it's supposed to only change and start a new track, if you change from ex. empire to low. if jumping from one type to the same, the same track should be playing continuously.
We can't reproduce this, sorry.

If you are jumping from hi-sec to low-sec, but still in empire, then this could happen, but if jumping from amarr - to sarum prime, the same track still plays before and after the jump

well, I understand - yes and no. the sounds are of course there as an indicator and if the sound is there once in a while as information, then fine.
but I agree, that if this comes constantly because of multiboxing or resetting constantly (you fight too much!!!!) - then it's a bit too much. I'll see if I can do something about it straight up, but no promises, we are too close to release for a lot of things to be changed so quickly.

Dead Space rules, for sure.
The problem with EVE is that we have a very small sound team - and I am just a content creator, I don't have the go to start changing things which are on the directors board. - Many of the sounds are from 1997 to 2003 when the game was made.
I understand that changing these would do a lot, but there is quite a lot of them and to keep them within the aesthetics of the game will require quite a lot of concepting and trial and error before such could be implemented.

And when I say SMALL audio team, I seriously mean small, we are just one designer (me) and one programmer to finish everything, so as much as I do understand, and as much as I would like to change a lot of things too and get things done, I simply don't have more hands and ears to do it with than my own.

And thanks for liking the new gates ;) I spent quite a lot of hours on making those sound the way they do.

let me give you a heads up on what we have been concepting though:
new music for dungeons, we are trying to make it more adaptive to the systems - so it won't be as repetitive as it can quickly become.

I am concepting how we have players customize their own UI, not put in their own sounds, but have more controls of which warning sounds and which specific UI sounds they want in the game.

New Booster sounds - but this is taking longer than expected.

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An old game like EVE will inevitably lack "new" things constantly - and not like Dead Space, which is a one time production game, you don't need to polish it after release and make it fit more modern standards.
I got in here 1½ year ago and A lot has changed on the sound side since then, but I can't do it faster than I am right now. sorry.