#4492849 - 10/14/19 02:25 PM
Ambient vs information
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Not sure if this has already been discussed somewhere but I thought it could be useful to discuss what ambient sound effects people find confusing in WOFF PE.
To me personally the most confusing ambient sound in the game is the sound of ground machine guns. When you are flying over the front or even deep in friendly territory (which I presume is a bug) you will occasionally hear a series of erratic machine guns bursts.
The problem with the sound effect is that it's way too loud and way too clear. Even though the ground machine guns are several kilometers below and away, they sound the same as an aircraft machine gun shooting at you from hundred yards. I have lost count of how many times I have started panicky evasive maneuvers before realizing it was just the ambient shooting.
I think ambient machine guns should be barely audible and somewhat muffled from any significant distance. Compared to the sounds of artillery and aircraft machine guns I don't know if they should be audible at all in a cockpit. The short an erratic nature of the fire is also odd. I would rather expect continuous fire from several machine guns mixed with rifle fire. I find it hard to imagine common WW1 Western front scenarios where just a machine gun or two would fire couple isolated bursts.
Another ambient sound that I have found confusing are air raid sirens. At least in UE on some fields you would hear the sound of distant sirens coming from nowhere in particular. These sirens have resulted in some pointless searching.
The most annoying ambient sound might have been fixed in PE but in UE there used to be a sound of plane passing over after you landed and it made me jump countless times.
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#4492864 - 10/14/19 04:49 PM
Re: Ambient vs information
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I'd love to find that stupid siren file and delete it. Listening to it at 10,000ft over the sound of my engine drives me crazy.
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#4492933 - 10/15/19 12:06 AM
Re: Ambient vs information
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You guys using the click button “Realistic” sounds in the Workshop? Yeah, I've played with that setting, it seems to do absolutely nothing at my end. Those distant MG sounds have given me a few grey hairs also.
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#4493060 - 10/15/19 09:33 PM
Re: Ambient vs information
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My current settings seem to have all but eliminated these sound attenuation issues for me.
Engine: 60 Effects: 30 Cockpit:30 User I/F: 10
A volume control for the music would be greatly appreciated, masterful as the score is, I find it obnoxiously loud .
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#4493085 - 10/16/19 12:06 AM
Re: Ambient vs information
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Could be interesting to have a related discussion about what pilot could or could not hear in open cockpit.
One thing that seems especially odd in WOFF is how the sound of air flow works.
In Rise of Flight, you can clearly hear the sound of air flow all the time and it is close to the volume of engine sound. You could actually tell that you are close to stalling speed if you can't hear it over the engine and if it is drowning the engine sound you could tell you are going too fast. This seems pretty correct and intuitive.
In WOFF you generally can't hear the sound of air flow over the engine. The only times you actually hear it seem to be when you are either entering AOA stall or when you are hit by a gust of wind. Both seem (or sound?) a bit odd. Would the noise produced by stalling be significantly louder than the sound generated by normally flying at high speed? The wind also doesn't seem like that significant when you consider the speed of the aircraft itself.
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#4493095 - 10/16/19 12:33 AM
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One thing that seems especially odd in WOFF is how the sound of air flow works.
In Rise of Flight, you can clearly hear the sound of air flow all the time and it was close to the volume of engine sound. . I would also expect to hear the airflow quite loudly. I have little experience with an open cockpit aircraft, but imagine it being similar to riding my motorcycle at highway speeds ... the engine can barely be heard over the very load wind noise. Wind noise would help with the feeling of speed and give an additional cue to how fast you are flying.
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#4493097 - 10/16/19 12:56 AM
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Would the noise produced by stalling be significantly louder than the sound generated by normally flying at high speed? The wind also doesn't seem like that significant when you consider the speed of the aircraft itself. No, less airspeed means less wind which means less noise. You will get a different sound, shuddering and turbulent air followed by comparative silence in the actual stall itself. The real thing is layered with more sensations than aural cues alone and this is impossible to recreate in a simulator. Rise of Flight has an excellent approximation of the actual sound of open cockpit flying which is because the RoF sound engine allows this. The sounds in WoFF work differently and so the wind noises are played as cues to the player to tell you things that an aircraft would actually tell you in flight.
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#4493117 - 10/16/19 08:43 AM
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I've tuned my settings to work best according to the limitations that seem to be present (The categorisation of sounds), a better way of dealing with this would be to take the actual sound files themselves and change the levels and then re-inject them into the game in a mod. I could probably fudge my way through this editing Audacity or something but identifying and then editing and getting them back in the game in the form of a mod would be something I'd need help with from people who have more technical expertise and who know their way around the WoFF file handling system. If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd love to give it a go and come up with a sound mod because the sounds are truly great base material to work with.
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