Hold on.

Choking when you get podded? Wont that completely go against the lore?

The lore being that in order to transfer you to a new clone, the pod takes a 'Snapshot' of your brain, killing you in the process. This process only occurs when the pod is breached ofc.

Yeah, I just read that and thought it was completly inconsistant with the lore.

...but there will be a new continuous sound along with the new visual warnings to remind you that you are just about to die

just because you're brain dead after your pod is breached doesn't mean you might not still have some autonomic dying reflexes...

Sure your body might well choke/gurgle/whatever, but *you* wont be there to hear it, nor hear your (now destroyed) pod synthesise the sound for you like it does all the other un-hearable things normally.

Your brain liquifies from the process. There would be no choking/gurgling or whatever.

At Fanfest you said you'd give nullsec new music.
Instead you gave lowsec new music, despite lowsec already having several tracks and nullsec having to contend with the same annoying humming and droning track all the damn time.

...hover over the yet-to-be-clicked nodes and, as part of the soundscape, hear very subtle changes...

Each of these provide a tiny bit information about what is to come out of the specific nodes...

I play eve with sound because internet spaceship space is far more enjoyable with Team Klang's audio work keeping me company.

Nicely done

Why did you remove the sound of a gate firing for those NOT going through the gate? There used to be a distinct gatefire sound that let you know someone had just gone through the gate. This sound was quite important to situational awareness for roaming PVPers, for example to know when hostile reinforcements arrive.

So my request: please put the gatefire sound back in.

And while I'm at it, a related request: put the decloaking sound back in. That one was removed a while ago without an explanation. Hearing hostiles decloak is another important situational awareness cue.

Thanks for listening.

New Sounds are great, but let the people decide wich sounds are active.
Each patch the sounds getting more and more annoying.

The continiously beeping during plexing. Aka crimewatch...
The zoom and scan sounds while flying through hundered of gates is just a burden. (Additional to the burdens on the eyes...)
Tried the sounds for a whole 5 minutes and shut everything down afterwards.

I only want the lazors and the shield/armor/hull warnings, everything else I should be able to turn off.

So make it optional, everybody who is happy with the continously ear harassment can keep it active.

Wonderful to see the direction the sound design is going

The "spacescaping" has been a long time coming, and it's what Eve has always needed. Unique sounds for different situations, unique graphics for different places, etc. Hopefully sound is just the spearhead of greater efforts to come!

Thanks for the blog, but I have a question and request.

Why did you remove the sound of a gate firing for those NOT going through the gate? There used to be a distinct gatefire sound that let you know someone had just gone through the gate. This sound was quite important to situational awareness for roaming PVPers, for example to know when hostile reinforcements arrive.

So my request: please put the gatefire sound back in.

Thanks for the blog, but I have a question and request.

Why did you remove the sound of a gate firing for those NOT going through the gate? There used to be a distinct gatefire sound that let you know someone had just gone through the gate. This sound was quite important to situational awareness for roaming PVPers, for example to know when hostile reinforcements arrive.

So my request: please put the gatefire sound back in.

And while I'm at it, a related request: put the decloaking sound back in. That one was removed a while ago without an explanation. Hearing hostiles decloak is another important situational awareness cue.

Thanks for listening.

I just tested it, on TQ, is there any way to seperate and allow us to amplify the actual 'alert' sound so that we can hear it better?

Also, this will get very annoying as an armor tanked ship, since the constant shield 'wuummmph' is always going off.

The Armor and Hull traditional 'warning sounds' are WAY too quiet. As you were told on SiSi. Yet nothing changed. Do you guys even play this game? (shield peep is also too quiet, but the other too and much much worse)

Also, i feel really bad for all those poor WH dwellers that will now be nearly forced to fully 100% rep armor AND hull after each engagement, as this constant hull sound is very annoying.

Thought I'd look back in a day later, see what the dev response was to feedback thread, yippee zilch, just another couple of pages with 2 fairly common themes in them from the few people that actually have sound turned on.

Seriously CCP, at least bother to login and troll by saying "this is how it is now, your ideas are **** so htfu", or better yet engage in dialog as to why you did things and how you could improve them. But then I suppose that'd be striving for excellence in everything, guess not interested in that

Hello?

Sound team?

Make some noise here please?

I am all in for more useful sound feedback. While in hacking you did not yet quite nail it.

Is there a way to disable these audio sounds.

I explore in null sec.
I armor tank.
I return to a station every couple of weeks.

So I constantly have the low shield warnings play, which gets really annoying.

1. warning sounds - this is a bug, some graphics were changed last minute and some other things that I can't go into detail about - which caused the new warning sounds to be buggy and low- this is fixed in the first patch coming.
2. jumpgate sounds, this is a bug, you are supposed to be able to hear 3'rd party players jumping as well.
3. jumpbridge sound too loud - will look into this again.
4. new music, is off my desk - I am just the messenger on that part, but will speak to the audio director as soon as I'm back.
5. the sound in the hacking game, which some say doesn't help, that's because you haven't listened enough AND like I said, it's not a total hint telling you what is behind the node, it is simply a tiny tiny hint as to what may be behind it, not what is there.

I suppose you are entitled to the occasional day off ;)

Thanks for the response and I'm very relieved you are going to reinstate the gatefire sound!

And since I have your attention, was there a reason the decloaking sound was removed a few years ago? It was also a very useful audio cue. I could live without a sound for losing gate cloak, but it would be absolutely wonderful to have a sound for cloaking devices.

Really like the attention to detail and the general direction you guys are taking the sound. Definitely adds more depth to EVE. Couple of comments tho:

The warning sounds need a bit of work. My ship was on fire and even though I was at 100% shields and armor the hull warning sound was constant and incredibly irritating. I don't always fly around with my ship on fire, but maybe the warning sounds should relate a bit more to overall HP? Even if it was constant ("Your ship is on FIRE!!"), maybe the intensity would scale based on overall HP? A good example of a conditional warning sound is how the shield warning sound seems to only be active when you're below a certain amount and also taking damage, and not just based on shield percentage.

Frequently can't hear my sentry drones firing, even when I'm sitting right next to them. Bug, or am I not supposed to hear them?

Regarding the music. Not sure what happened but it seems like most of EVE's sound track doesn't play anymore. I move back and forth between Hi and Low sec, but I'm only ever hearing a few different tracks. Is this a bug or by design? Either way, please change it.

yo.

will definitely make some noise here - but currently I'm on vacation (yes I needed that) - and I will be back soon, and they have the most crap connection here, so my ability to comment and read comments are very limited at this moment.
sorry about that.

just a few quick thing.

1. warning sounds - this is a bug, some graphics were changed last minute and some other things that I can't go into detail about - which caused the new warning sounds to be buggy and low- this is fixed in the first patch coming.

2. jumpgate sounds, this is a bug, you are supposed to be able to hear 3'rd party players jumping as well.

3. jumpbridge sound too loud - will look into this again.

4. new music, is off my desk - I am just the messenger on that part, but will speak to the audio director as soon as I'm back.

5. the sound in the hacking game, which some say doesn't help, that's because you haven't listened enough AND like I said, it's not a total hint telling you what is behind the node, it is simply a tiny tiny hint as to what may be behind it, not what is there.

and some more bla bla here.
now I will sit in the sun and get crisp while I think this over - (yes I actually dream sound when I sleep and I was thinking code the other day at the bathroom - my brain is damaged from the scan of the death scene)

Ok. Excuse my frustration on this post.


But seriously.

I just went into structure and had to fly around for a period of time greater than 10 seconds.

AND I WENT ******* INSANELY ANNOYED. Because the stupid BLEEEP BLEEP BLEEEP BLEEEP BLEEEP BLEEEP sound won't shut the **** up.

I GET IT. I'M IN STRUCTURE. THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME.

Not stop annoying the **** out of me.

Thanks for tolerating my attempt at sharing the experience you are giving me due to unnecessary audio "help".

Ok. Excuse my frustration on this post.


But seriously.

I just went into structure and had to fly around for a period of time greater than 10 seconds.

AND I WENT ******* INSANELY ANNOYED. Because the stupid BLEEEP BLEEP BLEEEP BLEEEP BLEEEP BLEEEP sound won't shut the **** up.

I GET IT. I'M IN STRUCTURE. THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME.

Not stop annoying the **** out of me.

Thanks for tolerating my attempt at sharing the experience you are giving me due to unnecessary audio "help".

As an Interceptor pilot i strongly F****** endorse this message!!!!! Cool idea ccp...... but after 10mins im over it

BLEEP..... Forgot one, i fixed that for you

Thought I'd look back in a day later, see what the dev response was to feedback thread, yippee zilch, just another couple of pages with 2 fairly common themes in them from the few people that actually have sound turned on.

Seriously CCP, at least bother to login and troll by saying "this is how it is now, your ideas are **** so htfu", or better yet engage in dialog as to why you did things and how you could improve them. But then I suppose that'd be striving for excellence in everything, guess not interested in that

I find it sufficient to turn off music while having every other sound activated and running in the background. I like the humming and talking background sounds of stations and I like the warpsounds, scansounds and spacesound altogether.

Only reason I cut off music is because otherwise I wouldn't be able to listen to the b/s my corpmates talk about in ts3 ;)

I listen to audiobooks or coms when playing, so I totally missed all the new audio.

Eve has sound?

J/K. I was actually commenting on the new jump sounds I love the 'ping' at the top side of things. It's just awesome. Keep up the good work!

The new wormhole sound is hard to distinguish from other random-space noises. The previous sound was absolutely unmistakeable and also sounded pretty awesome when you had a lot of people jumping through a wormhole at once. Could we get the oomph back in the wormhole transit sound?

Thanks for the blog, but I have a question and request.

Why did you remove the sound of a gate firing for those NOT going through the gate? There used to be a distinct gatefire sound that let you know someone had just gone through the gate. This sound was quite important to situational awareness for roaming PVPers, for example to know when hostile reinforcements arrive.

So my request: please put the gatefire sound back in.

Thanks for listening.

Was the gatefire sound intentionally removed? If so, doesn't that go against your stated goal of giving the player more audio clues as to what is going on around them?

How can the gate cause so much racket for the person using it and not make a peep for everyone else?

First, I want to say the efforts you are doing are admirable and amazing. So, take this with the idea that I want a better experience.


#1, GATE ACTIVATION IN BOUND

Please, add the Gate Activation on the inbound gate again. I was really hoping this was just a mistake and an oversight. But we really need an AUDIO queue that is more obvious than a static-y gate visual when something comes into system from the gate we are camping. It is way too subtle, and as someone who multi-boxes, it's impossible for me to know anymore while I'm on a gate that something happened on my other client.

Thanks for taking this feedback into consideration.

Come on team Klang - you guys broke two of the most useful sound feedback mechanisms in the game and haven't said a damn thing about it yet. I'm not giving you kudos for cute fluffy background noises when you're ignoring the important stuff.

1. Gate activations - gone
2. Ship damage warnings - faded and obscured
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With regards to hacking:
I found the notion of sound being another input into your sense of awareness rather cool as I've been trying out the new sites and been unable to get the faction tower bpcs due to not having maxed skills and running into swarms of the nodes that boost the other nodes(ended with a couple having over 500 coherence!) as they spider tanked my attempt to kill them.


I can confirm that there are subtle changes


While there are subtle changes they are not consistent, one particular, let's call it "scratchy-static" can be heard over node A, which turns out be a regular non-fancy node. Moving on to node B, the same soun...

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Is there any chance you could answer this question?

I have noticed that the music that has gone on CCP's soundcloud has been going up as Creative Commons. I thank CCP so much for doing that and allowing others to make noncommercial use of such well made music!

I was wondering if the audio from the game could be let loose in a similar fashion under Creative Commons. These amazing sci fi and UI sounds would in my opinion be of great potential for use in everything from Youtube Abridged series. To fan games and other projects.

Could this happen?

Ok - gate activation and 3'rd parties arriving at gates - was not removed intentionally.
to make a long story short - and to not go into too technical details - the sounds were tied to certain code which was dependent on the graphics - with the change of graphics on the gates, as well as the added new transitions as well as to wormholes - some of the code was removed and some of the graphics were changed overwriting certain code and changing certain dependencies - therefore these sounds are gone or changed unintentionally .

The graphics and the code is out of mine and my colleagues hands for now, so we are waiting for the dependencies to be fixed before we can implement the sounds back into the game - this will be patched asap.

Its been a while, any update on this?

and NO! the jukebox ain't coming back - it was an aesthetic decision made by my boss - nothing I personally can do about it and there was a poll and survey about it back when it was removed which clearly showed that people didn't want it or used it.