Test Server Feedback

A few notes on Eve's sound.

Feedback:
Hybrids: awesome.

Lasers: Pulse laser sounds don't really match the animation at this point (the sound doesn't hint at the pulsing much) but aside from that, lasers in general are fine.

Artillery: Mm, sexy bass! I think they're fantastic now.

Autocannons: Okay, you've got the smaller, rapid fire guns that don't really sound like autocannons (still sound a bit like single-shot guns), so you could improve those. The bigger, BS sized autocannons need to be clarified - are they autocannons, or 'repeating artillery'? If the former, some nice big chunky autocannon sounds would be an improvement. If the latter, then short, sharp artillery sounds that repeat briefly (bang..bang..bang) to indicate it's like a 3 or 4 barrel artillery piece would be appropriate

If you've got time, would adding an engine winding-up sound effect briefly when an afterburner or mwd is actived be possible? And even possibly doing a subtle engine power-up sound when acceleration takes place would add a lot.

Great work so far guys

Yes, now I have...
Thanks.

I do think the music is a bit too loud, compared to other sounds, though.

I ran a quick mission, to check out the visual changes, and found combat to be strangely quiet. Until I zoomed in. Then I could hear all turret sounds.

you do know, that Duality is a test server, where the sole purpose is to test and find "problems" ?
Not matching the animations is the least of our problems, but it has, none the less, been taken care of.

The afterburner I'll see if I can get something done to - but I'm not sure it can be done in time for this update.

All the lasers are being re-implemented as we speak.



both you and FoxFour misunderstood something here, and FoxFour should know better that things around here have dependencies and that this is a test server, where things are tested. It's not within the sound departments reach or in our hands to fix this, this is actually on FoxFour (he, she, it, whatever)'s teams desk - This is just silly, everybody is working as hard as they can - and asking for 1 thing and then complaining about 10 others that weren't reported is a bit silly, right?



This is a known problem, of the connection between the graphics and the audio events, we are working as fast as we can to solve this.
Also default volumes are being mixed, because of course your experience of the music being too loud is not the point. the point should be a smooth experience in the music and low enough to hear all the others sounds and details, which was a problem before. The problem with this is also that we made a lot of changes to the zooming in and out experience, the ability to hear battles from afar and how that actually sounds, it required a lot of tweaking - and this of course should kick in instantly and not have you forced to zoom in first.

But this depends on if you changed your settings before - I'll look into if we are overwriting them when updating the client or if they stick to your personal settings automatically.

I totally agree and understand, that if you want to play without music, you should be able to.

Not when you're gate cloaked

(At least, I've never heard it)

Were those the ones with the awesome TWISSSSS sound when they fired? I only have ever used them a few times but I also love their sound. Leave it or make a similar one ;)

Sounded to me like he was just trying to help you test and find the problems. You wouldn't be implying you have a problem with reporting issues before they hit live, now would you? ;)

Sorry to interrupt you there, but I would say that the current autocannon sounds are the worst sounds in the game. They sound like sewing machines.

Here is something that sounds big enough for small guns (although it's much smaller).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXLEURxozc

What do you think ?

The arty sounds are good though, that's true.

Edit: BTW, the guns always sound fine in the cinematic trailers, why don't they sound just as fine in game?

Yes, I thought my upbeat assessment was being received with cynicism and 'grumpy dev syndrome'. I also said 'at this point', which I thought hinted that I knew it would be on the way to getting fixed, and it was. No need for him to freak over it.

That's pretty cool, hey I found your youtube channel as well, maybe you can upload the audio's you speak of?

Off topic.

I really wish people would stop with all those acronyms. If you wish to convey a message, wouldn't it make sense to ensure that recipients understand it?

Edit.
Favourite EVE example: CNR = Raven Navy Issue...