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Paeniteo
Synthetic Frontiers
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Posted - 2008.02.29 04:43:00 -
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First off, this aint a whine thread and I won't be demanding anything. I definitely won't be having a cry and giving you my stuff if it doesn't happen.
I think it would be nice to hear more variation in sound effects, an enhancement/replacement of current sound effects, and to just plain add a lot in where there are none currently. Things such as, just for a few examples:
ò Constant ambient radio noise in high security space
ò A rogue drone sending you a warning in an audible digital language
ò A wide variety of weapon fire samples
ò Concord informing you in a *****ly radio transmission that your ship will be destroyed
ò The dull whir of an MWD overloading your engines
ò The static ***** of shields failing
ò A pirate transmission telling you to scamper
ò The (incomprehensible) chatter of a news billboard
ò An audio filter!
etc. etc...
Aside from the ambient music from Mr. Hallur, I personally think EVE's sound is a bit lacking. You guys did a mad job on the graphics. If you ask me the picture won't be complete until the audio measures up. Are there any plans for an SFX enhancement?
So what's your opinion? Y/N? You just want to leave that 'Audio Enabled' box unticked?
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Yoshitaka Moromuo
Moromuo Applied Industries LLC
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Posted - 2008.02.29 04:50:00 -
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/signed with extreme prejudice.
The ambience is nice, but the only thing truly immersing is the launching and explosion of missiles at the moment. Additional samples to take advantage of would certainly liven up the game.
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Dictum Factum
Gemini Sun
The Reckoning.
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Posted - 2008.02.29 05:04:00 -
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Eve has sound?
Well, that is something I hear a lot of. So many seem to think that voice and coms have to use the same output device. Me, I play with sound up and it is nice though it could use an improvement. There are several places that subtle sounds could be introduced to add to the overal effect of space travel. I do hope that CCP will have the time to work on this down the road.
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Heimdal Mid
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Posted - 2008.02.29 05:10:00 -
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While I'm certain that CCP has a lot of things on their plate, I too think more and better sound will significantly enhance the game experience at a level disproportionate to the actual amount of effort put into it by the developers.
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Kahega Amielden
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Posted - 2008.02.29 05:22:00 -
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 Quote:
The ambience is nice, but the only thing truly immersing is the launching and explosion of missiles at the moment.
I wouldn't call it immersive, since sound can't travel through space...
Cool, though.
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Shogun Archer
Gallente
SINco.
SYBERIS
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Posted - 2008.02.29 05:32:00 -
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The thing that bothers me about the sound is that it only seems to work about half the time. You always hear something, but certain things, like gunfire or explosions just disappear. Even warping sometimes it just seems like all the sound just cuts out. Then the sound effects will just mysteriously kick back in.
I've played EVE on many different computers and it always behaves the same way, so I'm 99% sure its not the sound drivers.
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Kyra Felann
Gallente
Noir.
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Posted - 2008.02.29 05:46:00 -
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Originally by: Dictum Factum
Eve has sound?
Well, that is something I hear a lot of. So many seem to think that voice and coms have to use the same output device. Me, I play with sound up and it is nice though it could use an improvement.
Yup, I proudly play with sound. Also, having voice comms and game sounds on two different devices = ftw. I have a USB headset that acts like its own soundcard for all my voice comms and it works well.
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Kyra Felann
Gallente
Noir.
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Posted - 2008.02.29 05:46:00 -
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Originally by: Kahega Amielden
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The ambience is nice, but the only thing truly immersing is the launching and explosion of missiles at the moment.
I wouldn't call it immersive, since sound can't travel through space...
Cool, though.
You know the sounds you hear are synthesized by your pod, right?
That is actually a good excuse for them not sounding that great, but it would certainly be nice if the sounds were improved.
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Central Scrutinizer
Cutting Edge Incorporated
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2008.02.29 05:48:00 -
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I might play with sound if they made the different sounds toggle-able, or volume adjustable on an individual level.
I find the stargate sound, and especially the horrible warp sound, to be harsh.
Actually, I'd use sound if they just removed the warp sound altogether. I ******* hate that noise.
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Wet Ferret
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Posted - 2008.02.29 06:05:00 -
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Some general improvement to the sound engine is needed, as well. All of the current sounds are extremely long and drawn out. What seems like a 4-5 seconds of rumbling from a cruise missile explosion is actually a 16 second long audio file. There doesn't seem to be any priority over what sounds are played either so no matter how many are incoming, it will load them all. This means that sounds are very likely to stack on top of eachother in most combat situations, and fighting enemies that (for example) fire a lot of small missiles creates a rather overpowering noise accompanied by some pretty horrendous lockups.
Not being able to adjust sound volume on an individual level amplifies the problem. The whole camera zoom / sound volume relationship seriously needs to go. Way to make players choose between actually seeing the combat and being able to tolerate the sounds of it 
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Stern Maxwell
Caldari
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2008.02.29 07:48:00 -
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Funny, every once in awhile when I'm near a bunch of Concord and/or Faction ships, I hear bizarre radio chatter. So there is a tiny bit of this already in game I suspect. I don't know if NPC's really scan your hold for illegal items, but maybe thats what they are doing when I hear the chatter.
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XenoPagan
Enterprise Estonia
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Posted - 2008.02.29 08:55:00 -
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absolutely /signed
audio part is quite outdated and slightly buggy. pod sound synthesizers need an upgrade i'd say
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Thrass
Caldari
AWE Corporation
Intrepid Crossing
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Posted - 2008.02.29 09:02:00 -
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would be nice
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The Herrick
Gallente
SniggWaffe
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Posted - 2008.02.29 09:02:00 -
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Originally by: Paeniteo
ò A rogue drone sending you a warning in an audible digital language
If CCP manage to do this in a way that takes the **** out of R2D2 it would be all the more awesome.
/signed.
Originally by: Tania Russ
Those of us who actually build stuff and accomplish something worthwhile in Eve, as opposed to pirates, who basically don't accomplish anything but stealing other people's stuff. |
Lafe
Umbra Congregatio
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2008.02.29 10:37:00 -
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/signed
And while their at it they might as well change some of the combat sounds such as railguns firing etc, so that your ears don't get blown off like they do now.
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Hanneshannes
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Posted - 2008.02.29 10:46:00 -
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There is no sound in space :o
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Paeniteo
Synthetic Frontiers
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Posted - 2008.02.29 10:48:00 -
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Keep repeating that, it bumps my thread 
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Ovno ConSyquence
Amarr
Free Mercenaries Union
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Posted - 2008.02.29 10:49:00 -
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/signed
And ffs read the thread or something about the game, the sound is synthesised by you pod  |
Ziw Pineapple
Caldari
Heaven's Avatars
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Posted - 2008.02.29 10:52:00 -
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For me it's usually like this... I login, everything is quite quiet ... Then I'm warping to a mission location and i hear the normal woooosh sound from warp... But when I fire away all those missiles its like BRAWWOOORORORMM BAAANNGGGGG GRAWURUURUWR .. And I become scared 
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Siigari Kitawa
Gallente
The Aduro Protocol
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Posted - 2008.02.29 11:10:00 -
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I agree, this game needs a few more sounds. And more sound channels. The game frequently cuts of sound channels during combat, and you can't hear all of the guns firing, etc.
Please make sound more immersive, CCP.
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Djana Libra
Caldari
The Black Ops
Black Core Alliance
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Posted - 2008.02.29 11:14:00 -
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/Signed
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Andrue
Amarr
Federation Of Space Loonies
Culture Shock Initiative
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Posted - 2008.02.29 11:26:00 -
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/signed like it's going out of fashion.
Please CCP! Some of us actually value good audio above good visuals.
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(Sarcastic mission running veteran)
[Brackley, UK]
My budgie can say "ploppy bottom". You have been warned. |
Andrue
Amarr
Federation Of Space Loonies
Culture Shock Initiative
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Posted - 2008.02.29 11:28:00 -
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Originally by: Kahega Amielden
Quote:
The ambience is nice, but the only thing truly immersing is the launching and explosion of missiles at the moment.
I wouldn't call it immersive, since sound can't travel through space...
Cool, though.
The sound from firing missiles doesn't have to travel through space. The launchers are attached to your ship. There is no reason not to hear any piece of equipment attached to your ship.
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(Sarcastic mission running veteran)
[Brackley, UK]
My budgie can say "ploppy bottom". You have been warned. |
fugimi
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Posted - 2008.02.29 11:48:00 -
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seem to me ccp need to solve some more basic technical problem with audio.
adjusting volume levels to certain effects in eve will be helpful.
but im guessing ccp dosnt do much about it becoz they use a 3rd party audio liberary and nobody in their crew realy know how to use it properly.
im guessing one dev manage somehow to make it work in a basic way and thats where he left it.
an example to this is eve music.
you cant realy disable music in options audio tab, you can only lower volume to 0.
on other applications and games doing so will usualy disable the music completly but in eve it dosnt.
to test this out just lower the volume all the way and then look at soundtrack window and see its still playing.
yes u could click stop on the soundtrack list and it seem to be stopping.
but the game will start another soundtrack automaticly triggered by event.
so u could never realy disable the music and save on resources. quile lame.
another example to how things arnt working properly at their base is disabling station enviroment.
the sound of the enviroment will seem to stop, but once in awhile u could hear for a split second, almost as if escaping some 2nd layer "shut the audio up" WHILE its still playing.
again... ccp ur use of audio liberaries r quite lame, i wish u would sort this out like proper programmers do.
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Neermark
JotunHeim Hird
Aurora Borealis Foundation
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Posted - 2008.02.29 12:12:00 -
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/signed
*insert sig* |
Cyber Blue
Gallente
Cyber Blue Consulting
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Posted - 2008.02.29 13:21:00 -
[26]
Yep |
Neddy Fox
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Posted - 2008.02.29 13:47:00 -
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Edited by: Neddy Fox on 29/02/2008 13:47:32
NOOOOO!! Don't take the sound of the wind hauling around my ship in space away!!!!!
/sarcasm
It would be nice to have better surround effects, esp. when you're fighting, and some 'in ship' sounds representing the status of your mods.
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Viryana
Genco
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2008.02.29 13:52:00 -
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I'd love an update of the 425mm railgun sound. At the moment the sound rather... well, soggy tbh.
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decoherance
Gallente
The Scope
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Posted - 2008.02.29 13:57:00 -
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Originally by: Stern Maxwell
Funny, every once in awhile when I'm near a bunch of Concord and/or Faction ships, I hear bizarre radio chatter. So there is a tiny bit of this already in game I suspect. I don't know if NPC's really scan your hold for illegal items, but maybe thats what they are doing when I hear the chatter.
I heard that the other night. I told my friend who plays but he didnt believe me.
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Druadan
Institute of Fungineering
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Posted - 2008.02.29 14:07:00 -
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Originally by: Paeniteo
Edited by: Paeniteo on 29/02/2008 05:23:44
First off, this aint a whine thread and I won't be demanding anything  I definitely won't be having a cry and giving you my stuff if it doesn't happen.
I think it would be nice to hear more variation in sound effects, an enhancement/replacement of current sound effects, and to just plain add a lot in where there are none currently. Things such as, just for a few examples:
ò Constant ambient radio noise in high security space
ò A rogue drone sending you a warning in an audible digital language
ò A wide variety of weapon fire samples
ò Concord informing you in a static perforated radio transmission that your ship will be destroyed
ò The dull whir of an MWD overloading your engines
ò The static short of shields failing
ò A pirate transmission telling you to scamper
ò The (incomprehensible) chatter of a news billboard
ò NPC and PC distress signals
ò An audio filter!
etc. etc...
Aside from the ambient music from Mr. Hallur, I personally think EVE's sound is a bit lacking. You guys did a mad job on the graphics. If you were to ask me, the picture won't be complete until the audio measures up. Are there any plans for an SFX enhancement in the near or distant future?
So what's your opinion? Y/N/You just want to leave that 'Audio Enabled' box unticked?
This. All of this. And the ability to alter the sound levels of each of these sources. And a rebalance of the current sound levels (not being able to turn down game sound effects (e.g. missiles, warp) without turning everything else down with it is just bad),
-Dru
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