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krickettt
Hizzy Hizzy Hippos Book Hockey.
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Posted - 2017.04.01 04:34:11 -
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Cade Windstalker wrote:krickettt wrote:Please don't simplify the ADVANCED audio settings! That makes no sense at all. If anything, they need more granularity. Things like the UI click and the new gong sound when you dscan should be separated and have their own advanced audio setting.
If you simplify the advanced audio settings I'll be forced to mute it all, and I'd rather not do that. They've explained why they're doing this and it does make sense. 1. People have complained that the settings UI is too complicated. I've spent more than enough time helping out newbies to know they aren't BSing on this, I can't count the number of times I've told someone "oh there's a setting for that" and gotten something akin to "oh, I stopped messing with the settings, it all looked too complicated" or similar. 2. Having tons of different sliders and what-not complicates their work as devs. It's probably also responsible for some sliders controlling things that make little sense for them to control to the average player (for example Citadel tether sounds are caused by tether, which is technically a module internally, hence module sounds). With a simpler menu they can spend some of that freed up time making sure that every new thing tweaked or added ends up in the right place in the UI controls.
1. Advanced Audio Settings aren't enabled by default. Players don't have to mess with them if they don't want to. If anything, the audio settings are the more nicely coordinated of the settings pages. General settings and shortcuts are the mess.
2. The sliders and their backend (however they are connected to the sounds/action that create them) are already in place. All this seems to do is move all those sound and actions under a few sliders than the more specific ones. If anything, this will create a LOT more confusion than now, and will definitely create a lot more frustration. |
Dominous Nolen
V0LTA WE FORM V0LTA
267
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Posted - 2017.04.01 06:32:06 -
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Ember Niagara wrote: Redacted ascii
I like that idea, it doesn't always need to be visible and having an expanding menu would be great.
@dominousnolen
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Kiela Paine
Remnants of the Abyss Lord of Worlds Alliance
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Posted - 2017.04.01 06:41:05 -
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Nothing says Gaudy Megacorp CEO like pasting your face on the side of your space-scraper. |
Dominous Nolen
V0LTA WE FORM V0LTA
267
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Posted - 2017.04.01 06:45:47 -
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http://imgur.com/Gwijvd9
Why group things to just those sliders? As many other people have stated above you can collapse the menu when not needed or not selected (The idea of having expanding categories for sounds is great.
Not having the ability to disable my warp sounds but leave 3rd part warp in sounds cranked is key for situational awareness. I don't need to hear my warp/engines/modules etc. I literally turn all of the down to minimal sounds.
How much stuff is mapped to what in the screen shots that have been shared? What is in the ambient settings? Wormholes, Stargates, backgrounds?
As I mentioned in my previous post having the ability to control all the sounds individually is needed for various scenarios.
Please do not put this change through. It's going to make us disable the sounds more then anything else.
@dominousnolen
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Kiela Paine
Remnants of the Abyss Lord of Worlds Alliance
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Posted - 2017.04.01 06:46:46 -
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CCP Darwin wrote:Nikki Canby wrote:Why even have the face of the CEO to begin with (or any portrait for that matter)? This is part of a larger question that we've been trying to work through of how we can find ways to highlight individuals as well as groups in the in-space experience, offering an individual a way to aspire to having a human presence in the game. We do have other concepts for this, but this feature was an opportunity to do something simple to serve that goal. What it means to the corp's members is going to vary a lot from corp to corp. Many corps (including some with the strongest identities) have CEOs who are active players and whose personalities help define what makes the group work. Many corps, as you say, have CEOs who are essentially placeholders, and yes, they won't see as much value in it. The earlier idea of using alliance executor corp CEOs was a first-pass implementation that was created to get the feature going, before we had a full discussion about where the value might be in having such a portrait on the structure. Player feedback on this mirrored our internal feedback and we were happy to tweak it to make it something a bit more meaningful. These portraits are relatively small and are placed far less prominently than alliance and corp logos. They're there if you care about them and look for them, and if someone wants to highlight the CEO portrait in, say, a player-produced video, it should be easy to do so, but they don't dominate the look of the structure. If you're not looking for them, you're unlikely to find them too distracting. The reason that we are not providing UI control over these features is that doing so would require back-end database and UI work that would necessarily involve another team, and would greatly increase the complexity and time to implement the feature. I personally think that corps with CEOs with strong personalities and in-game identities will enjoy the detail, while corps with placeholder alt CEOs can probably find ways to be creative with their portraits that communicate a mood or something about their corporate personality. I can understand why this would be implemented, but I still feel that it's a bit gaudy and tasteless... Perhaps there are better places to implement pasting someone's giant face into space?
On the other hand, if you really want to make the game feel more personal, taking Incarna off the shelf and finally finishing that would be a great way to do it! Just don't pull another Monocle Gate. I think the community is ready! |
Lauren Vaille
Dutch East Querious Company Asteria Concord.
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Posted - 2017.04.01 07:34:04 -
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The one feature I'd like to remain would be the option to turn off UI clicks. That one shouldn't be too hard - I don't mind explosions, whizz bang shooty fun - the limit active sounds takes care of that nicely. But the UI clicks are really irritating.
Other than that, I'm OK losing some of the settings.
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Martin Vanzyl
EVE University Ivy League
17
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Posted - 2017.04.01 09:28:48 -
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New Suns - very well done.
New Hangar lighting - also well done.
New Advanced Audio = no. Nope. Not a fan at all.
Why?
I now have to turn my UI Sound level down completely to get rid of the annoying continuous 'clitter click' of just moving my mouse across the screen as it moves over interact-able elements on the UI (in menus, markets or moving the mouse pointer up and down the Neocom. Whereas currently on TQ I have turned down the Advanced Audio setting 'UI Click' slider to 0 - to get rid of the annoying clitter clatter xylophone. I also turn down 'UI Interaction' to 25 to moderate the similarly annoying bird 'chirp chirp' sound of moving a slider up and down.
I can appreciate and empathize with simplifying unnecessary complexity, but when your current SISI build is forcing me to mute the entire UI sound element just so I'm not drilling my ears with the above two sounds then... yeah, need a rethink on what you want to include/exclude.
I agree with some of the 'simplifications' though. Putting Wormhole sounds and Stargates sound and putting them into a general 'Jump Activations' makes sense. I'd just also suggest you add a tooltip over each element telling you exactly what sounds the new sliders govern.
I'd definitely also want a slider for the Dscan 'dong' sound... really CCP devs, it should be obvious how many times 'DScan' is clicked by the playerbase. Its a stat that's even gathered in https://spreadsheetsin.space/ . So how could it be thought that that wouldn't quickly become annoying. Dscan is a tool vital for survival in every situation you can care to name in Wormhole space, and mostly in null and other securities of space. Now its like you're punishing us with sound for using it? |
Angry RedGummyBear
Dystopian Heaven Hedonistic Imperative
17
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Posted - 2017.04.01 09:58:22 -
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Hirmuolio Pine wrote:Advanced audio feedback:
"Secondary interfaces" combines way too many settigns into one. It includes UI ambient sound (map/ship tree/...) and active UI sounds (scanning, clicking). I really think those two must be separated. Ambient UI sound is just annoying so I mute it. But probe scan is helpful so I can hear when scan is completed without watching the UI all the time.
D-scan is just annoying since that is spammed constantly and it plays on each jump. Just make d-scan very quiet sound/remove sound or add separate slider for d-scan.
Separate active UI sounds from ambient UI sounds.
Nothing in advanced sounds changes radial menu sound. add it into active UI sounds.
"Ship effects" includes almost all ship effects. Too many combined again. I don't want module sounds, permarunning tank starts to sound annoying really fast so I mute it. I want to hear when I land from warp since it is useful information. I want to hear explosions.
Pretty much this, plus get rid of the blanket UI noise for dragging the cube. WHYYYYYYYY |
Nut Cullet
Diversity 101 The Bastard Cartel
11
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Posted - 2017.04.01 11:28:28 -
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If you dont give me the choice of turning that ui click off ill have to play with no sound in eve ever again ! |
Nut Cullet
Diversity 101 The Bastard Cartel
11
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Posted - 2017.04.01 11:38:50 -
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CCP Darwin wrote:Dominous Nolen wrote:You know just as well as I do that you don't get a good enough sampling from play testing on Sisi. Data from Singularity would be inadequate for this purpose, yes. The data about usage of these settings that CCP Antiquarian mentioned was collected on Tranquility.
So u noticed like 90 % off ppl turns of ui click? |
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TehHouse
The Walking Deads DARKNESS.
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Posted - 2017.04.01 13:03:10 -
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Limiting the audio options even more is not a change your players want.
I'm running 5 clients at any given point in time. If I can't mute stuff like weapons, the station interior/exterior, I'll pretty much be forced to play with sound off. That sucks. |
Hra Neuvosto
FinFleet Northern Coalition.
393
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Posted - 2017.04.01 13:29:58 -
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I play without sounds most of the time but please, give us even more options under the advanced sliders, not less.
Stars look great though. |
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CCP Darwin
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2017.04.01 14:22:10 -
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TehHouse wrote:I'm running 5 clients at any given point in time. If I can't mute stuff like weapons, the station interior/exterior, I'll pretty much be forced to play with sound off. That sucks. I don't believe the settings for muting inactive clients are part of this change, but you can log on to Singularity and check it out to be sure.
Regarding specific feedback about certain sounds and use cases, thanks for posting it and please keep it coming.
CCP Darwin GÇó Senior Software Engineer, Art & Graphics, EVE Online GÇó @mark_wilkins
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Dominous Nolen
V0LTA WE FORM V0LTA
267
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Posted - 2017.04.01 14:34:26 -
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TehHouse wrote:Limiting the audio options even more is not a change your players want.
I'm running 5 clients at any given point in time. If I can't mute stuff like weapons, the station interior/exterior, I'll pretty much be forced to play with sound off. That sucks.
It's only the active client settings that are impacted Inactive clients don't get touched
Latest Build shows the following: http://imgur.com/Gwijvd9
@dominousnolen
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TehHouse
The Walking Deads DARKNESS.
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Posted - 2017.04.01 15:18:42 -
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CCP Darwin wrote:TehHouse wrote:I'm running 5 clients at any given point in time. If I can't mute stuff like weapons, the station interior/exterior, I'll pretty much be forced to play with sound off. That sucks. I don't believe the settings for muting inactive clients are part of this change, but you can log on to Singularity and check it out to be sure. Regarding specific feedback about certain sounds and use cases, thanks for posting it and please keep it coming.
I've never used inactive client muting. I just use the advanced audio settings to control what each client hears or doesn't hear. For the specific case of the station interior sounds and stuff getting played over themselves 5 separate times while I'm trying to talk to someone on teamspeak, I guess this approach probably works.
I don't know how well that will work for, like, everything else though. I'll try to come up with some more specific cases to illustrate why this is bad, but under the current system, I can just have it set up so I (mostly) hear what I need and not what I don't. And I can do this on a per client basis without worrying about whether I have focus on the right client to hear what I want from where that character is. I very much prefer what we have now, where I have ways to turn down or up (relatively) specific things.
The 'advanced audio' settings on sisi now are just too broad. "Ship Effects" is literally everything: warp effects, module activation, ships blowing up, weapons firing, weapon impacts, engine/prop sounds. There's no way for me to hear _just_ when people land on grid without also having to hear weapons, tank, and background engine hum.
No control over shield/armor/hull warning.
No way to audibly single out a third-party warp.
No control over the UI clicks and beeps without muting it all altogether.
If we can't get a full volume control slider for what we had before for performance/audio engine reasons, can we at least get on/off toggles for the old options? |
Ni Neith
Hedion University Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2017.04.01 15:19:28 -
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CCP Antiquarian wrote: One of the goals was to minimize the amount of work that goes into maintaining and updating the audio system so that the team can focus on issues that affect more players.
Oh yeah, right. Minimize the amount of work for the team so they have more time introducing alienating buzzing, dingling and summing sounds! |
Avrora Primogenitor
Ranger Industries Care Factor
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Posted - 2017.04.01 16:40:38 -
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The new simplified Advanced Sound Effects are awful. Been asking for MORE control ever since you developers spammed me with "You need to be within range to execute this function". Instead you want to lump even more together? Having the sliders drop down is a better compromise.
As for the argument "it is too much work to maintain".. I am pretty sure the community reacted sour to several audio changes and sound effects added. So instead of making it easier for you guys, making it harder is less prone to having a sounds effect backlash on you. Simply because you added the option to mute it. So the devs take more time to ensure our pleasant gameplay. |
smokeAjoint
The New Eden Yacht Club Hole Control
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Posted - 2017.04.01 17:45:53 -
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Need more advanced audio settings not less
**-álegalize it**
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Pitscorgh Padecain
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2017.04.01 18:11:43 -
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It's really hard for me to imagine that the number of complaints about the "Advanced Audio Settings" group being too advanced comes anywhere close to the number of people who use advanced audio settings that will be cut. However, in good faith, I'll assume that this is the case.
One thing to keep in mind is that people use AAS to help make the sound less annoying or to improve the signal to noise ratio. It's super useful to hear warp sounds. It's not useful to hear repetitive clicking/bonging/chirping sounds. Some people are annoyed with repetitive sounds (e.g., the UI Click, which seems near-universally panned). Please, please let us continue to disable the UI Click.
I know I used the AAS to disable Aura when someone decided it was a good idea to make her chastise the player every time you wanted to loot something that wasn't in range. To add insult to injury, she would interrupt and repeat herself if you clicked more than once at first. Even when the repetition was fixed, I kept her disabled until the super annoying message was removed.
My point is, people use AAS to make your job easier---we can work around whatever decisions you make about sound design to make them work for us. If you remove this flexibility, we will push on you to design sound in a way that works for everyone. This is a much harder job. When AAS is not flexible enough, we will disable sound entirely or play a game that is less annoying. |
Coupable Enedrr
Teutate raiders The-Culture
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Posted - 2017.04.01 19:04:23 -
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I sure hope you use all that time you're so eager to save by making sounds we won't be forced to mute |
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Marlene Dakenek
Devid Ventures
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Posted - 2017.04.01 19:17:18 -
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Please do not dumb down advanced audio settings. They are the only reason I can play with sound on at all since there are some very specific sound effects that get on my nerves. |
Aldent Arkanon
Calamitous-Intent Feign Disorder
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Posted - 2017.04.01 20:41:29 -
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Please consider retaining the option to turn off (or adjust) some of the more annoying sounds like the horrendous UI click in particular. Playing with it on is unbearable and it would be very frustrating to have to turn off an entire group of sounds just to not have to put up with it. |
The Dauphin
Dauphin Enterprises Inc.
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Posted - 2017.04.01 21:08:53 -
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I don't mind or like my ugly toon face on the side of my citadels, but I do mine losing my Captain quarters. Since we are all moving to citadels soon, we should have offices and quarters in them. AND I would love to have a conference room to sit with my bros and discuss tactics, and a bar to buy someone a beer. Now the question is why in a space fighting game. Well this game is about friendships as much as fighting. And when I rent an office, there should an office attached to it. AND DONT TELL ME you don't have programming resources for it when you have time to redo stuff no one complained about.
Here are some other issues I suffer with ; Installing Blueprints takes abnormally long with only a few bp to search through. Bring back in the in game browser, then people can get more creative about tools like Dotlan that used to work.
Apart from this, the new designs look great. Performance is mostly good, even if I fly mostly with linux. I left the game for years after you took out support for linux. I came back and the IGB was gone. No walking in stations and now offices will be slowly moving away.
NOW as fanfest is approaching CCP consider this, since you describe your company as customer centric, let your customers not only play the content but design it. CCP grow the universe by adding features not tweaking things out for short term benefits.
CCP learn to give people more, not less. Don't take out features. Give more in APIs, and even let corporations define their own skins, at reasonable prices. This stuff that CCP has to control everything and put ridiculous prices on stuff is wrong. The prices for skins are higher than ships many times.
BTW, I play with the sound off, because I don't have enough granularity with them. Most sounds get too repetitive after playing for hours anyway. |
Milo Caman
Anshar Incorporated Monyusaiya Industry Trade Group
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Posted - 2017.04.01 23:59:45 -
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Please don't cut the audio settings up like this. I have real trouble dealing with 'background' sound and the ability to filter out ambient noise and unwanted UI sound so I can get proper feedback from the game is incredibly useful. If this is implemented I'll probably just end up disabling audio ingame altogether
I get that there is a development issue here, but quietly trying to cut an incredibly useful feature isn't the answer. |
mkint
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Posted - 2017.04.03 03:33:33 -
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The phrase "eve has sound?" became a meme for a reason. Are we going back to the days of terrible audio? Even at its best, EVE sound isn't good. It's occasionally "moderately acceptable" at best. And even at its best, imo muted is still better. You really wanna expose the true character of your mad sound skillz?
Maxim 6. If violence wasnGÇÖt your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
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Ransu Asanari
V0LTA WE FORM V0LTA
534
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Posted - 2017.04.03 15:34:29 -
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So from some SiSi testing, I was able to replicate my personal sound setup, and get most of what I needed from the new advanced audio.
I have everything turned off in Advanced Audio Settings except Jump Activation and Ship Warnings. I also had to turn off master sliders for Music, UI Sound Level, UI Speech Level.
Two things I'm not sure where they've gone, are:
- 3rd Party Warp-in Sound Effects - I want to have these turned on, so I can hear when other ships are hitting grid. This is situational awareness, and not repetitive sounds. Which slider controls this?
- Ship Skins sound changing - I want to make sure these are off, as it's jarring when someone changes their ship skin next to me. Not sure what slider controls this. Ship Effects?
- I checked and the audio for ship transformations as they enter/exit warp are not playing. I always thought it odd that they weren't bucketed under Ship Effects. They must have been fixed. Good, I don't want to hear them.
So other than 3rd Party Warp-in Sound Effects, I'm content to play EVE with less sound, and almost everything turned off. If anyone can think of other situational audio that we'd want added, please post. |
Dominous Nolen
V0LTA WE FORM V0LTA
273
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Posted - 2017.04.03 17:08:53 -
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I would agree with Ransu, that 3rd party warp is one setting that I need to have turned on while I turn off the rest of the atomsphere sounds.
When roaming it's nice to have the stability effects of the wormholes enabled, but tend to turn down the buzz of the gate static atomsphere, cause really it doesn't matter, only the activation sounds are critical when in k-space.
I do like having some module sounds turned up on the ship and I fully disable the warp effect from my own ship.
I typically leave things like my modules at 20%, ship ambience around 30% (I'll admit, I like the transition effects of the animated warp enter/exits) and alot of the other settings are set to 15% or below as I don't need the background noise.
If I could I would turn off the probe scan(cube drag, ambient static noise?) / tactical camera/ incursion audio if I could figure out which slider you've bound that to, if any.
@dominousnolen
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CCP Antiquarian
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2017.04.04 14:33:01 -
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Hello hello!
Thanks everyone* for commenting about the advanced audio settings changes. The reason we put this out in Singularity is to get feedback and you all have certainly provided that. We genuinely appreciate the interest in our logging, the concern about metrics and data interpretation, and even the questions about complaints vs. AAS users. You guys are the best.
There are a few changes in the works in response to both the feedback here and usage (over the last and coming weeks) on Singularity. These alterations may take a bit longer than normal owing to Fanfest and the Spring holiday, but there will be adjustments made. I can assure you that the build on the test server right now is the first iteration of this feature, not the final.
*Special thanks to Dominous Nolen and Ransu Asanari for actually getting on and playing with the new settings enabled to provide useful feedback. This is why Singularity exists** and why we have this forum.
**Also, we do like to showcase our mad sound skillz.
"Singularity pilots are helpful pilots."
@CCP_Antiquarian - for immediate fulfillment of your archaic social media needs.
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Dominous Nolen
V0LTA WE FORM V0LTA
273
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Posted - 2017.04.04 15:53:40 -
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Thanks for the update Antiquarian! Looking forward to further updates on this one.
Sadly won't be able to make it to Fanfest this year, hope everyone has a blast.
@dominousnolen
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Ransu Asanari
V0LTA WE FORM V0LTA
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Posted - 2017.04.04 16:04:05 -
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Thanks for listening to our feedback. Hopefully we can get an update and some of the information on sound mappings so we can help test further!
One question about the sun changes - I checked out the A0IV (Turbulent Blue Subgiant) sun in Thera on SiSi. I like the new design, and way the shading happens. I'm really glad the on-grid sun designs are changing to be less blinding - I made a video about this a while ago (retina burning warning).
Since we're looking at this, is there the possibility of turning down the intensity on the A0IV (Turbulent Blue Subgiant) suns? It's much better when you're on the sun grid now, but the light intensity against the skybox anywhere else in a Shattered wormhole is still quite bright. |
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