Suggestion: Change the sounds Dark control & Beasts, sonic, and beam rifle

[Justisaur]

I searched and couldn't find another thread to add to, so here's a new one, sorry if it's a duplicate.

 

My Suggestion: Change the sounds Dark control & beasts howls, sonic sets, and beam rifle.

 

I know people can change them if they don't like them, but why not change them instead of making everyone who doesn't like them hack their client.  They don't really bother me, but they're really bad.  Really I'm just sick of hearing other people complain about it.  It has to be the #1 source of discord among groups where one of these sounds show up, yes even above heal only empaths and petless masterminds.

 

How hard can this be, isn't it just changing the files?

 

The Howling could be changed to a softer lower growl.

All the sonic sets could be changed to a various music tones.

Beam rifle, I don't know, but something that sounds more like a sci-fi phaser or blaster.

While we're at it, could you replace the machine/power sounds that sound just enough like glowies to make me look around for the glowy when I hear them?

 

I know there's some free resources for sounds like freesound.org surely someone could find some decent sounds and the devs could just replace them?

 

[Burnt Toast]

Your hyperbole ("It has to be the #1 source of discord.....") aside... no thank you. While I do not find most of these sounds to be pleasant... there is (as you pointed out) already a way to fix this "problem." If something bothers you THAT much... take the 5 minutes it takes to change the file. I particularly enjoy the sound of sonic blast.

 

I don't think this is a big enough issue that requires any dev time since players can already (and many do) modify the sounds on their end... especially the glowie sound.

 

I searched and couldn't find another thread to add to, so here's a new one, sorry if it's a duplicate.

 

My Suggestion: Change the sounds Dark control & beasts howls, sonic sets, and beam rifle.

 

I know people can change them if they don't like them, but why not change them instead of making everyone who doesn't like them hack their client.  They don't really bother me, but they're really bad.  Really I'm just sick of hearing other people complain about it.  It has to be the #1 source of discord among groups where one of these sounds show up, yes even above heal only empaths and petless masterminds.

 

How hard can this be, isn't it just changing the files?

 

The Howling could be changed to a softer lower growl.

All the sonic sets could be changed to a various music tones.

Beam rifle, I don't know, but something that sounds more like a sci-fi phaser or blaster.

While we're at it, could you replace the machine/power sounds that sound just enough like glowies to make me look around for the glowy when I hear them?

 

I know there's some free resources for sounds like freesound.org surely someone could find some decent sounds and the devs could just replace them?

[SwitchFade]

Ah, no.

 

Sorry.

[jack_nomind]

I know people can change them if they don't like them, but why not change them instead of making everyone who doesn't like them hack their client.

 

Hmm.

 

I wonder how hard it would be to create a utility that just lets you automatically replace sound files.  It could be packaged into Tequila.

[WanderingAries]

You know that you can use ANY sound you want by using the DATA folder right? There's a thread or three on the OG forums and atleast one here that covers it. There's probably something on PW too.