Agreed. All I hear while doing PVE is lame sounds while shooting my guns and impacts from enemy fire.. I'd love for more "random" sounds such as turrets adjusting etc..

I agree most weapons could use some more punch in the sound department. Pulse lasers (with the possible exception of the one noted by Aglais, which I haven't used) sound freakin' awesome though.

You're not hearing the gun, you're hearing the echo of it through the hull, further muffled by the goo in your pod.

Is there anything you would like to add before I post about this on the CSM forums ?

I believe that as part of the V3 changes, CCP are already in the process of redoing some sounds in the Eve universe. I do not appear able to find the exact place where they said they are doing so, though.

The CSM minutes told about some secret changes which amazed the CSM, but nothing specific.

Btw, if the sounds do get a lot more realistic, then I really dont want to ever fire or be near firing Siege arty, ever.

I would love to hear the sound of a Capital Projectile Arty go off. haha

Nope, that's not it, or you wouldn't hear other ships firing at each other. All sounds for a pod pilot are completely simulated by their camera drone interface, as it was discovered capsuleers keep their sanity better when space is not dead silent. I couldn't find the source saying that, but I did find a story detailing this: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/The_Jovian_Wetgrave

What is the most important part of the ship?
The weapons?
The engines?
It's the crew. And the last thing you want your Captain to be thinking in an emergency situation is 'Damn. I wish this chair wasn't such a pain in the ass.'

There are regular ships in the background, yes. But players are capsuleers, who are not in some chair on the bridge, but floating in goo in their POD.

I know it's a shame, RP wise, but that's how it works. Regular captains die with their ships, so I'd rather stay in my goo.

I was quoting Star Trek.

I think this is a good idea. One thing I would like to add tho. Is that guns should have more then one sound. Say around 200 different sounds that are randomly picked. Would make it seem more realistic.

Also just a note a rail gun makes no sounds. The sounds you hear in that video is the Sabot round breaking the speed of sound. and it hitting the target. the gun itself makes no sound. So it would need some sort of new sound.

They are very big railguns, and thus they need huge Electromagnets. Large Electromagnets make a loud humming noise.

As for your idea on multiple sounds, I think 200 is a little overkill. To save space, CCP would have to make them all MP3s.

I'm sure the air around it would be super heated and cause all kind of burning and cracking and bolting.

Hello.

Throwing in my support for this thread. As a new player, I can't really comment on some of the larger turrets or batteries, or even engines. However, I too enjoy playing my games with in-game sound, for immersion purposes and also so I don't blare out people on voice comms :)

In my three or so weeks of playing so far, I've found the music to be pretty good, the warp drive and engine sound effects ok, and the weapons very disappointing. I know that EvE is really not about the visceral combat, and most times, especially in pvp, you'll be zoomed far out and looking at menus. Despite this, I think it's a shame that turret weapons don't generate the same sense of power some current weapons do and in EvE they are far ahead of us in terms of technology. Even if it's just a brief moment when you zoom in on your ship and release a volley of artillery fire, that brief second of sound should strike the player as both natural and awesome.

It's not just the projectiles weapon systems that need a sound update, though they may be the easiest to work with since we have plenty of real world examples. The hard ones will be the blasters and the lasers, since they need to sound cool without sounding overly whiny, tinny or obnoxiously cheesy like Star Wars lasers. Missiles, so far, seem alright too me, but there needs to be a larger and deeper launching and explosion sound for larger launchers, that would seem like common sense to me.

The final aspect of EvE sound that needs improvement is the miscellaneous and ambient sounds of the ship and turrets. For example, when you hit a repair module, you get some green light and some whirring, though it definitely could be louder. In a similar vein, turrets too need their random sounds. For example: a deep purring sound for lasers when they aren't firing; the rattling of an autocannon spinning around; perhaps even a hissing or exhaling sound after a blaster cycle completes.

That's the input I have for now, I'll definitely think of new sound ideas or look around on the internet for real world examples of sounds that the weapons could emulate.

The same air that causes drag on my spaceship?

No. It is not air that does that. It is the warp field. Because it has to interact with Subspace, treats normal space like a very thick atmosphere. And you can't turn the warp coil completely off, because then it results in a critical existence failure due to the subspace field collapsing. Normally, a ship's shields would protect it, but since when a ship blows up it normally has little-to-no structure left, that is why the ship explodes 'Critical Existence Failure' style. When a ship has run out of Hull HP, the next shot breaches the Warp Coil.

So wait, let me get this straight... All the balancing needed, all the revamping of plexes, the massive need for ISK sinks... And all y'all want, is better turret sounds?

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As we can see in this video, sadly lasers don't make any sound at all in real life. So let's just get something to increase our slaveholding spaceship captains satisfation. Won't link any content from another game or sci-fi movie, but I'm sure you can imagine a sound of a charging up and then firing laser that sounds better, and more importantly, bigger than the current EvE sound.

So wait, let me get this straight... All the balancing needed, all the revamping of plexes, the massive need for ISK sinks... And all y'all want, is better turret sounds?

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The same air that causes drag on my spaceship?

So wait, let me get this straight... All the balancing needed, all the revamping of plexes, the massive need for ISK sinks... And all y'all want, is better turret sounds?

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