Electrical Affinity Sounds

[zenblack]

While I am happy to have a new Support power set and congratulate the HC team on getting it shipped to the live servers there are a few issues with the set which I think should be addressed. With the other suggestion about the animation and it's VFX I agree with and support, I also have an issue with the sound that this set is producing. I was hoping that it would be a toned down Electric sound as Electric is an absolute cacophony when you get multiple players (see Hami raids) this one AT can absolutely turn it up with fewer people to have the same overpowering sounds. While solo or in a normal team this doesn't really cause many issues, but when you are in a league and the Electrical affinity players are chaining it almost completely obscures everything else.

 

Please consider adjusting the sounds of this set.

[Solarverse]

47 minutes ago, zenblack said:

While I am happy to have a new Support power set and congratulate the HC team on getting it shipped to the live servers there are a few issues with the set which I think should be addressed. With the other suggestion about the animation and it's VFX I agree with and support, I also have an issue with the sound that this set is producing. I was hoping that it would be a toned down Electric sound as Electric is an absolute cacophony when you get multiple players (see Hami raids) this one AT can absolutely turn it up with fewer people to have the same overpowering sounds. While solo or in a normal team this doesn't really cause many issues, but when you are in a league and the Electrical affinity players are chaining it almost completely obscures everything else.

 

Please consider adjusting the sounds of this set.

First, how about asking for an option. Nobody likes when players ask for an outright change, especially since not everybody has a problem with them.

 

Having said that...

 

The power set is still new. Teams are running with multiple players running around with the set and yes, as of right now they are annoying. However, once the power set grows mundane and people move on, it shouldn't be so bad. If you only have one or two on your team, it's not bad at all (I have tested this) and is very tolerable. I think people need to relax a bit and wait for the set to die out some before calling out for changes to the sound. It literally *just* got here.

[Uun]

I don't think the sound needs to be changed, but the relative volume needs to be turned down. It's much louder than other power SFX.

[Solarverse]

3 hours ago, Uun said:

I don't think the sound needs to be changed, but the relative volume needs to be turned down. It's much louder than other power SFX.

As somebody who has created a few SFX mods, let me say that "turning them down" can be insanely tricky. There is an extremely fine line between the volume being too high and not high enough.

 

The reason behind this is because of the many different pitches in the other power sets. The higher the pitch, the more it can drown out sound of other powers that use a pitch that uses more bass. Also, couple this with several different players casting powers all at once, if the sound isn't high enough (sometimes too loud) then it will be drowned out by the other sound effects. It's an extremely difficult task. 

 

Most of the time the volume is loud because if it were not loud, they would be drowned out to a level that you simply wouldn't hear it at all.

 

However, this is a higher pitched tone with Elec, so it may just be that they are a bit too loud. This issue I speak of more pertains to the lower frequency sounds than the high pitched tones.