So this likely needs to go into game play but I’m hoping a dev sees this.
Please, for the love of all hunters everywhere, give us guns and bows that actually sound like guns and bows.
Why this sound effect was changed into this weak little airsoft “paff” is beyond me.
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I assume it was changed because the old sounds were loud and annoying to some.
Like yeah, it’s a gun, gun go bang.
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Even the bow sounds have been changed. Log into a class in Classic that can use a bow, you can hear the creak of the wood as it’s drawn and the arrow is released. The modern Retail bow does not sound like that.
I’m a huge sucker for good audio design and clues and the current bow and gun sounds just annoy me.
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Yea… I miss the old audio… my bow may look like a nerf gun… but that doesn’t mean it should sound like one…
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Feels like they made it weaker because constant repetition of a loud noise is dang near torture after awhile to our brain.
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The only time I turn on sound effects (other than dialogue) is to fish. Maybe I’m crazy.
It’s why I always transmog my guns to bows. Gun sounds suck.
Hell, give us a few sound options for attacks. A bit like when making a toon you can have face 1, face 2, face 3, ect let us have gun sound 1, gun sound 2, ect
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Look into sound fatigue or listener fatigue. This is why they changed annoying and repetitive sounds like them.
They need to fix sound replacement so we can use the old sounds if we want to.
Three words: Old Gun Sounds. It’s an add-on of sorts that puts the original gun sounds back in the game, for you, others still get the staplegun, but, ya know, sound fatigue I guess.
The shots don’t ever bother me, I like my gun to sound like a gun, but then I used to shoot guns IRL for fun too. I guess I could see how it would bother people though. I’m just not sure I understand what the new sounds are even supposed to be. I think my airsoft is actually noisier than that.
Anyway I used Old Gun Sounds on my hunter before I got him the pew-pew laser that actually made sense with the new sounds (and makes its own sound as well). It has an easy built it toggle in case you get tired of it, no downside really.
I hate the gun sounds. They are so impotent, so both my hunters are bow only now.
I am betting this is the answer. Considering just how frequently that effect would be going off, it would quickly become annoying hearing this “boom” every couple of seconds.
Eeyup. The brain gets bored of repetition quite frequently. Which is why having a song stuck in our heads can be infuriating. At that point we just wanna imagine something else but nope ain’t happening.
Also why certain songs are also used for literal torture where a prisoner can’t stop the music.
I use an addon to change the “pfttt” of the gun to the sound of a 12 guage.
So why is the pfft sound better than the boom sound? It’s repetitive either way.
It’s not as loud so it kinda becomes white noise
If it’s about soubd fatigue, why the shooters care about the punch of the audio while using a gun, and the point of a shooter is to shot. And there no one, says audio fatigue
I think, that we nees to have nore machíngun audio over the “fptpftft” that we have now. Or to have the powerfull audio while in the world and the moffled one on raids
I agree when it comes to guns. They shouldnt sound like Im shooting
a toy gun.