On the issue of sound

[Unus Offa Unus Nex]

Imagine the following;

You find yourself on a server with just 5 people, the sound of gun fire is noticably absent on the battleground, only the sound of a mild breeze and rain drops hitting the ground are present. All your senses are on high alert, the enemy is out there, lurking... it's a hunt! Then finally you spot movement in the distance, you carefully take aim and squeeze the trigger. A loud bang with a significant thump rings across the battleground, infact it's almost deffening as all of your senses have been on such a high alert. The sound of the bang echoes across the battleground for several seconds. The enemy lies motionless, it's a kill.

Question is: Will the sound of a rifle firing feel as just that, a rifle firing. Or will it just be a loud bang with no depth to it, or will it have a thump to it like the real thing. Furthermore will sound echo for several seconds as in real life. And finally, will the sound be louder if you haven't fired for a while and there has been a long period of silence, to simulate the increase in sensitivity such a period brings to your hearing?

 

[VariousNames]

Ideally, the sound of a gun firing will make your ears explode.

 

[Mormegil]

Listen to gunfire from "The Pacific" to get an idea of what we may hear. Same sound guys.

TWI mentioned they're aaccentuating deep bass to better give you a feel of the compression wave you don't hear, but feel. Also, they've put in the mechanical sounds in the automatic weapons.

 

[Unus Offa Unus Nex]

Good to hear guys, I'm crossing my fingers for some truly fantastic chest thumping sound effects in RO:HOS then

 

[kapulA]

Well, to be completely honest, the regular RO K98 sound on my headphones set to 100% made my ears hurt - I couldn't bear more than 5 minutes of gameplay at that volume. Which is pretty close to what I imagine a firing a rifle must sound like.

 

[Unus Offa Unus Nex]

Well, to be completely honest, the regular RO K98 sound on my headphones set to 100% made my ears hurt - I couldn't bear more than 5 minutes of gameplay at that volume. Which is pretty close to what I imagine a firing a rifle must sound like.

Erm... at 100% volume pretty much every weapon will make your ears ache. The sound of weapons such as the K98k, and in particular the G43 is completely unsatisfactory in RO:Ost, and in general weapon sounds lack the depth they should have. But I have no doubt TWI will have this area covered in RO:HOS.

 

[Nicholas]

I have a really good sound system on my PC, when I get RO2 I'm turning the volume up all the way to 100 :IS2:

 

[LJFHutch]

I hope they include a good audio page in the options, I want full quality HW-accelerated 3D surround sound

 

[Oldih]

Speaking of sound I'm curious if RO2 will be the first game to have genuine footwear sounds on certain material types.

 

[Actin]

Really looking forward to the recorded gunshots.

Gonna put my volume and bass on very high volume; If the neighbours don't complain, the volume is still too low

 

[SiC-Disaster]

Speaking of sound I'm curious if RO2 will be the first game to have genuine footwear sounds on certain material types.

Oldih and his hobnails obsession