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@CCP WhiteNoiseTrash my question is in regards the the mission sounds. specifically the ever so in consistent sound that played when a mission is complete. is there going to be a fix for this to make it work for every mission?

also, I hope i'm not the only one who believes that the large lasers sound pretty weak? any way to make them sound oh i don't know like this
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I think that bit of electricity gives it a nice crisp kick. after all it is electromagnetic and thermo. I just think different ammo should produce different sounds.

A long time ago, we used to have a doppler effect for on-grid noises when warping in or out. This requires no (or very little) positional sound, since it's only grid-wide environment (acceleration gates, star gates, explosions, etc) that will be audible before actually landing on grid.

It would be nice to have this back :)
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Saying something is possible is not the same as considering memory, cpu and the amount of voices used when doing it.

All the warping sounds are triggered through certain numbers of speed from the ship, so them triggering late - is a bug.

what exactly do you mean? a button that allows for all other sounds than "your" sounds to be muted ?
Currently the microphone is at your camera, so zooming in and out affects everything.

zooming out and still hearing close range sounds - I'm not sure I can push this through with the directors or anything.

But here is what I am fixing up for Rubicon right now - just before final release.
I'm working on a new Wormhole and Cyno jump sound, I am trying hard to find code that allows me to check the difference between my and your ships, and if that doesn't work in the engine the way it is, I gotta hack on the sound engine that will probably work, but I can't say for sure yet.
Basically so that when you jump, you have a certain experience with it - and when others jump, it's more like they are sucked into the wormhole or swoosh away through the cyno. I hope this will be well received as I personally thought it was quite annoying to have the same sound for you and others jumping. and they were damn noisy too.

Also, some of the new hacking sites and similar will get some new music. we are testing out how we can easily develop more dynamic music to avoid repetition when entering certain places.

We have heavily adjusted the ship soundscapes, you won't hear them as far away and the duck much faster.

I have been tweaking the booster, MWD and afterburner sounds - but as always, something I tweak and something that I can test out here, doesn't mean its what people expected. All I could do was a little attenuation changes and so on.

The main focus, of any expansion, is of course new content and the audio team does a hard job providing new audio for new content, and the ISIS ship tree coming in had a lot of work in it and the new deployable structures.

The new warp disruption bubble animation has a new visual effect and we have come up with a system to detect certain things, like when you are bubbled. I am working on this for warp scrambling and web too.
but for the disruption bubble, sound will change and you will be absolutely sure that you are inside a bubble now. as often, if zoomed in too much you wouldn't notice the bubble before it was either too late or the annoying part of having to change your view to see if there was a bubble, if you didn't have it in your overview.

The turrets - I can go over, but NOT for Rubicon, I simply don't have the time right now to do it and most likely not for the patches either, so I can't say anything about if this will change or not for now.

I will look into the warp curves, but one problem has been to recreate the situations mentioned by you guys / girls, and if I can't reproduce the situations, then it can be a bit tricky to tweak and even more tricky to concept a new system that can be explained to the directors as more important over the old system.

I too would love an option that lets me hear my turrets, and sounds from things nearby my ship, when my camera is zoomed out to 150km. I usually play that way and don't hear all your hard work.

this. I will have to talk to the director about, as it's an aesthetic thing, and that I can't touch as much as this, without having it send in send back, signed in triplicates and recycled and then meditated upon.

But I'll go over it tomorrow with him.

There are some other issues I need to discuss with him anyway, like the UI seperate mixing in the control menu and the mute music button and so on.

Hell you made me happy by just responding to my post lol. So thanks for that! (I tried to get this in on the CSM 100 little and medium things... but alas)

I can wait another decade if need be, its just good to know its someone's radar.

The ship acceleration sounds / MWD spool up sounds... I don't think are new , but they seem to be at a better level and better sync to the main render.

Also the Sounds on the new Deployables are very cool, though the dead time/ low volume period for the Cyno jamer's sounds might be longer, it seems It gets to be the dominate sound if you are on grid with it for any length of time.

The sound on the Marauder transform(s) is nice, would like it to bu up level a bit , it's easy to miss.

The Jump gate/ system transition sounds are still too high compared to the rest of the the world sounds and turret effects.

They are brand new ! - the AB and MWD spool sounds. I just made them basically :D
The jumpgate transition sound, is going down for rubicon.

It's was "fun" to have that in and it was a cool experience the first many times, but after that it just became too much, I agree- so we turned it down.

The marauder, triage, siege, deploy and all those modules, needs to be tweaked a bit. I just put them in, so I haven't even matched them to the animations yet or anything.

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It's cool. Yet something may not be possible straight up - it may be an opener to how it could be done otherwise.

awww :(