Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The missile launcher sound is the same ZOSHH ZOSHH ZOSHH like back then 2006 when i started to play. That's somewhat behind the numerous graphics updates and the incoming missile launcher graphic improvement.

I'm using missiles and will continue to use them (no matter if they are crap or not in-game) since i did my military service at a missile artillery unit and fell in love with the missile technology there. We were using the "MARS-Werfer", also known as the MLRS M270.
Since space missile launcher sound is artificial anyways, the sound of the MLRS could be an example or a role model for some launchers, e.g. the heavy missile launcher (other missile launchers should sound different IMHO, standard missiles shouldn't have the same ZOSHH as torpedoes).

Here are some videos made by my comrades and some randomly found on youtube, on the sound of a real missile launch:

MARS-Werfer Baumholder/Germany

multiple MLRS firing

another single MLRS unit

launch record from a distance


The quality of the youtube video sound is not the best, but it gives a good impression. When you stand not far away from them, you can feel the launch in every bone of your body, this could be simulated with some sub-woofer bass effect. I think a sound change is not that complicated compared to a graphics change - and might it add a lot to immersion (low hanging fruit).

Especially Artillery Cannons. At least the biggest Frigate-size Arties (I don't use them often enough to remember their exact size) and 720mm Arties should get a slightly better sound when they fire. Right now, it sound like their recoil is so powerful that the cannon is in danger of falling off the ship (not that that sounds very unlikely, considering that Arties are used mainly by Minmatar)...

+1 but look before you post next time.

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