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In short: F'ING AWESOME.

The new warp sound effect sounds a lot more "realistic", as realistic as you can get with a fantasy sci-fi game like EVE. It sounds...big. Like it should. I also love how, when you engage warp but cancel it before warp begins, that you hear your warp drive "power down" now. That's f'ing awesome. The "warp disengage" engine sound is a lot better and more pronounced now as well, and so is the "power down" sound when warp finishes. Maybe you guys could look into replacing the "traveling wind" sound effect you hear while en route during the warp with something more dramatic and pronounced too. That would be fantastic.

The new stargate sounds are a fresh and welcome addition. I think they sound perfect. In fact, I wish you guys would replace all the old stargate sound effects with the new ones, and just add more variety of new ones.

The music in wormholes and 0.0 is EPIC. It adds a very appropriately creepy vibe to these places. I love it. In fact, I believe the music in the Jukebox is becoming a bit stale. I would really like to see a whole new Jukebox with all new tracks. Of course, keep the old music too, and separate it from the new music in the Jukebox and add an option to view/mix the old music with the new.

The touch I especially like is the "ship ambience" sound you hear now when you're zoomed in on a ship. That's very immersive. A battleship like a Tempest or Abaddon is very large, and contains thousands of crew in most cases. This ambience sound effect does a good job at expressing how large your ship actually is, as you can hear muffled crew-to-crew communications, mechanical functions, etc. VERY GOOD CCP!

EDIT: Looks like different race's ships have different ambience too. Mind blown.

Creepy is definitely the word for 0.0's music.

As for the OP's comments, I agree. Very good stuff all around. To boost the distinction between which faction of ship you're piloting, I think it would be great if the thrusters had different sound effects as well.

Overall, I think the pre-existing tracks could use some remastering/updating. Regardless, what's there sounds good. I really like the mixing from track-to-track.

I DEMAND VIDEOS

I'm working on making a video now that portrays all the new sounds. I'll make a new thread about it in General Discussion and I'll link to it here.

Edit: Fuuuuu....Buckingham is down right now. Once it's up I'll do this.

Cheers, thanks.