*£$% This guy needs more coverage. [Archive]

SuperMorto

2012-05-24, 04:43 PM

Im sorry folks as I know there is a lot of new content, but I would just like to say and this is before I watch TB's new video as I feel this is more important.

The sound designer at SOE and whoever else is responsible for the flight sounds in the new SOE video need a fucking big round of applause, because not only did the stunning graphics and the incredible flight mechanics (well done NVidia) get me so fucking wet............

BUT THE SOUNDS JUST BLEW MY MIND!!!

Amazing and thank you to all for making what is about to be the worlds most loved FPS MMO.

Hail - injectedsenses

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120403155452/vampirediaries/images/9/9d/Applause.gif

His Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/injectedsenses

Lots of love,

Morto.

Gogita

2012-05-24, 04:48 PM

I have to agree with this. Every moment the camera switches to third-person and that sweet sound comes out of my speakers....
http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/264/212/b03.gif

Graywolves

2012-05-24, 05:05 PM

I have to agree with this. Every moment the camera switches to third-person and that sweet sound comes out of my speakers....
http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/264/212/b03.gif

Can't wait for more sound to be completed for the game.

Really hope the beep-beep of the Stryker comes back. One of my most memorable moments in Planetside was while we were in the caves and this Reaver comes in and is harrassing us. Then one of the squadmates gets on the comms and says "I got him *beep-beep-beepbeepbeep*" You could hear him locking on, it was beautiful.

SuperMorto

2012-05-24, 05:07 PM

Can't wait for more sound to be completed for the game.

Really hope the beep-beep of the Stryker comes back. One of my most memorable moments in Planetside was while we were in the caves and this Reaver comes in and is harrassing us. Then one of the squadmates gets on the comms and says "I got him *beep-beep-beepbeepbeep*" You could hear him locking on, it was beautiful.

Nearly as nice as the sound of a AA VS Max unit firing at blue/red reaver!! :)

Atheosim

2012-05-24, 05:08 PM

Yeah, dude. This shit is fucking sexcellent.

Gogita

2012-05-24, 05:09 PM

Can't wait for more sound to be completed for the game.

Really hope the beep-beep of the Stryker comes back. One of my most memorable moments in Planetside was while we were in the caves and this Reaver comes in and is harrassing us. Then one of the squadmates gets on the comms and says "I got him *beep-beep-beepbeepbeep*" You could hear him locking on, it was beautiful.

I normally play VS, but I have played TR a couple of times and holy crap, using the striker is so damn annoying because of that constant beeping :p

Stormhall

2012-05-24, 06:06 PM

Yeah its epic and so it's TB!!!

Furber

2012-05-24, 06:17 PM

Absolutely agree. During the GDC video I heard the Gauss rifle and thought "meh, i'm sure they'll fix that". THE HELL THEY DID FIX IT! Couldn't have asked for more, dev team is fucking DELIVERING!

colorpilot

2012-05-24, 06:28 PM

i wholeheartedly agree the work is just amazing, this game is looking and sounding like everything i hoped it would.

Fanglord

2012-05-24, 06:30 PM

I reallllllly reallly love the sound of the aircraft so far, the guns I feel need more meat (personal preference... I just like loud guns to sound loud :P )

Xyntech

2012-05-24, 07:28 PM

When the liberator was flying around, I think I made a mess in my pants.

I love how the stuff is sounding, and I'm not even sure if some of the sounds are placeholder or final. Either way, it's given me confidence that the sound in the game will be as awesome as the graphics.

I love a game that has distinctive sounds. I want to hear a split second of a sound effect and immediately know what is making it.

Can't wait to hear more.

Hamma

2012-05-24, 07:58 PM

Agreed 200%!

SuperMorto

2012-05-24, 08:01 PM

Agreed 200%!

x2

And the same goes for all the team at SOE.

You are single handedly changing game development.

InjectedSenses

2012-05-24, 09:13 PM

Hey everyone! Thanks for all the great feedback and comments. We are chugging along and are glad to receive such great responses on the audio. It certainly has been a challenge to keep up with the dev team on the quality (and quantity) of material to work on. That said, our goal is to make a sick game and bring some sick audio to the table. The vids that have been out in the last week have just touched the surface and I can't wait for you all to hear more (especially without voice over or music masking it). A lot of credit does have to go to the Audio Director on this, he is responsible for the vehicles (at least in the latest vids).

Patek

2012-05-24, 09:49 PM

too awesome. i dislike it when i play a game and their audio isnt banging! ahhhhh! lol

keep up the amazing work! :D

Rodney Gates

2012-05-24, 11:39 PM

Thanks for the props, all. Like my man Injectedsenses said - its a team effort and we're firing on all cylinders to deliver the best-sounding FPS MMO out there.

Atheosim

2012-05-25, 12:23 AM

I do have a question about voice macros- will they have the so sweet yet subtle voice modulation/effects like in PS1?

Rodney Gates

2012-05-25, 12:37 AM

PeteHMB

2012-05-25, 01:14 AM

There was a bit of a flange effect on the PS1 voices, now wasn't there? Difficult to say - we have all of our VO recorded already, but since players can customize their characters so much with full face masks / helmets or not - it's a tricky proposition.

I'd be happy to come through and record more voices for you guys if you want. Just for the sheer fun of it.

Thomas

2012-05-25, 02:06 AM

I would buy the old Voice's from PS1 if you put them onto the PS2 store :P

"Well met!"

Atheosim

2012-05-25, 02:07 AM

I would buy the old Voice's from PS1 if you put them onto the PS2 store :P

"Well met!"

I would buy them in a heartbeat. Those voices were one of the countless things that I loved about PS1, and part of the reason was the unique effect applied to them.

BTW- Rodney and Injected- You guys got the blue names!!! Sweet!

Mechzz

2012-05-25, 08:34 AM

I would buy them in a heartbeat. Those voices were one of the countless things that I loved about PS1, and part of the reason was the unique effect applied to them.

BTW- Rodney and Injected- You guys got the blue names!!! Sweet!

Noooo! The PS1 voices were so cheesy. Especially the manic female with her "hiya!!!!!!". I have a lot of affection for the game, but the voices would be low on my list of things to buy in the cash shop. (Other opinions are available!)

Gandhi

2012-05-25, 08:40 AM

Noooo! The PS1 voices were so cheesy. Especially the manic female with her "hiya!!!!!!". I have a lot of affection for the game, but the voices would be low on my list of things to buy in the cash shop. (Other opinions are available!)
That's what made them so great, so much more fun to use than some gruff serious sounding voices. I always used that male voice... Greenhorn I think, the one who always sounded a little panicky. And the ditzy blonde voice going "Is that your best??" :rofl:

Mechzz

2012-05-25, 08:49 AM

That's what made them so great, so much more fun to use than some gruff serious sounding voices. I always used that male voice... Greenhorn I think, the one who always sounded a little panicky. And the ditzy blonde voice going "Is that your best??" :rofl:

Lol. I'm having a giggle to myself thinking about their voices.
Wonder how the new ones will be. Will they take themselves all serious or go more light-hearted again?

Hamma

2012-05-25, 09:57 AM

Welcome guys! Thanks for dropping in to say hello.

As someone who has now experienced the in game sound in person I can say it is AMAZING. Honestly there was nothing like just standing there and having a reaver fly in over your head. The experience I got from that made the hair raise the back of my neck.

Excellent job all around.

Lonehunter

2012-05-25, 10:25 AM

The aircraft engine sounds where the first things to distract me with such joy I had to watch it again to get the other details. They sound incredible, the strike run on the parked tanks was also full of great thuds and booms.

But the engines, my god it was amazing

Jonny

2012-05-25, 10:32 AM

SO hyped about this game, great work on everything devs!

Shogun

2012-05-25, 11:00 AM

yep, sound´s great! i love that the engines don´t sound like any generic aircraft in any other game. great distinctive sounds!

they sound different, but convincing! that´s hard to do, but you nailed it so far!

EVILoHOMER

2012-05-25, 11:07 AM

Tanks need to sound more meaty because they sound rather weak atm.

I want to praise the UI guy though, it just looks amazing and didn't expect SOE to deliver such a good looking UI. Many aspects of the game has blown me away, I expected SOE to turn this into a small scale F2P instanced FPS. I didn't think SOE would go all out and actually create a true PS sequel.

After SOEs past I was ready to be disappointed, so to turn my opinion around just means how great PS2 is looking.

Gandhi

2012-05-25, 11:16 AM

I have a question actually, can we expect to hear bass thumps from distant explosions or would that tax the engine too much? Would be really awesome to fly toward a front line and hear distant thumps slowly turn into the sounds of a raging battle.

Rbstr

2012-05-25, 11:40 AM

Having good sound really brings the game to the next level.

With the original, I always though things were often a little bit too..."pew pew" which tended to make guns sound a bit too toy-like.

I'm loving the jet-noises thus far. Keep up the good work.

Spoof

2012-05-25, 11:46 AM

Also loving the audio work. The Liberator's third-person has such a sweet, futuristic engine note.

I'm hoping you guys have a seriously "pant-browning", speaker-breaking effect for the orbital strike!

Shogun

2012-05-25, 11:48 AM

please let the old voice macros return! or at least have most of the phrases again.

"you call yourself a soldier?" was as iconic as "your best is my worst!" and both are needed for retro feeling ;)

also i hope we got some new iconic phrases that will stay connected to planetside for the rest of our lives!

duomaxwl

2012-05-25, 11:56 AM

My 2 cents.. yes, the audio is sounding amazing. Keep up the good work! Also, send my beta invite when you get a chance. <3 <3

Gandhi

2012-05-25, 12:01 PM

please let the old voice macros return! or at least have most of the phrases again.

"you call yourself a soldier?" was as iconic as "your best is my worst!" and both are needed for retro feeling ;)

Some of my favorite memories of Planetside are 10+ guys all spamming "Incoming MAX units!!" during a MAX crash into the backdoor of an enemy base :love:

duomaxwl

2012-05-25, 12:08 PM

Some of my favorite memories of Planetside are 10+ guys all spamming "Incoming MAX units!!" during a MAX crash into the backdoor of an enemy base :love:

My favorite was either spamming "Defend the Generator!" once you have taken down an enemy gen and they are outside, or, in a tech plant, putting a boomer by the door leading to the spawns and spam "Attack their Generator!"
It's a guaranteed kill most of the time. :lol:

I'm excited about the idea of retro voice packs.

Roy Awesome

2012-05-25, 02:28 PM

I still have one single glorious memory from planetside.

Some kid was trying to grief our outfit, so we all surrounded him and spammed 'HEEEELLLLPPP'.

So, if 'HEEEELLLP' *handwave* isn't in the game I will be sorely disappointed and have to join the rage crew here.

Graywolves

2012-05-25, 05:37 PM

There was a bit of a flange effect on the PS1 voices, now wasn't there? Difficult to say - we have all of our VO recorded already, but since players can customize their characters so much with full face masks / helmets or not - it's a tricky proposition.

Dude, I never expected us to receive such a level of detail/customization for the voices...That is really awesome!!!!

Squiffy

2012-05-25, 05:51 PM