Yes, that was my experience last night, too. HMC sounded like metal-rich and vice-versa. However I managed to distinguish the water-worlds from the bluish HMC by the bubbling sound. Unfortunately the game repeatedly crashed yesterday and after the fifth reboot I stopped playing out of frustration. Maybe another try tonight.
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Yes, that was my experience last night, too. HMC sounded like metal-rich and vice-versa. However I managed to distinguish the water-worlds from the bluish HMC by the bubbling sound. Unfortunately the game repeatedly crashed yesterday and after the fifth reboot I stopped playing out of frustration. Maybe another try tonight.
I encountered a WW and AW, and fortunately was able to distinguish the sounds. That daid, another system had no less that five world's which had ELW or WW appearance, some in the habitable zone. They all sounded like HMC worlds, so I let them be. I hope the sound d wasn't messed up on them too. I'm now paranoid and may scan any world that looks like a ELW or WW.
I noticed they somewhat changed HMC, Metal Rich and Icy. They can have mixed sounds. I'm doing a research and it doesn't seem linked to metal percentage in the planet, and neither by temperature or atmosphere. I will investigate further. By fortune WW, ELW and Ammonia sounds are the same and very different from other sound, so it's always good to distinguish false friends.
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I believe you have misinterpreted the post. Zeeman is asking why someone would use a cheat BASED on the planet sounds, when the planet sounds already do what is required.
Yes, now i read better and make my apologies to zeeman
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If, like me, you experience some difficulties to ear/differentiate planet sounds in your noisy cockpit, never forget this !
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Out of curiosity... What are you using for your audio?I do wonder if better quality audio makes distinguishing easier. I have very good AV gear (thanks to my work being AV related), so I find it quite easy to distinguish the different sounds. But were I using some cheap desktop speakers, or a lower end set of headphones, I think I would struggle with some of them.
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I have a cheap headphones for about 20 euros. I don't have problems to hear planet types, I can immidialty distinguish between false friends. Problem is to pass this knowledge. Recently I noticed that HMC, Metal Rich and Rocky don't have always the same sound, but I can her very clearly the low pitch bubbling of WW, the bird chirping of ELW and the strange liquid sounds of Ammonia, so i distinguish them by difference.
Now I have to learn to record vids by myself and explain better the differences between false friends, but it's very difficult to stay easy and make a guide that can be usefull on the go.
When I meet a Blue Planet with landmass, if i have doubts, i alt-tab this guide and hear the ELW sound recording, and I can immidiatly tell if it's a false friend or not. Of course if that planet is few hundred ls away you might want to scan it anyway, but it's several dozen thousands Ls away i personally prefear to know what's there before deciding if to go or jump away.
Hi folks,
today I came upon a system, that had a lot of different HMC-planets (and the first earth-like I found in the perseus-arm). I decided to do some recordings to be able to further distinguish the sounds. I was able to distinguish 4 different HMC sound-compositions, that may be related to the type of atmosphere.
Here are the examples:
High-metal-content-planet with no atmosphere.
This one emits screeching sounds, but very low-pitched
[video=youtube_share;qjcV2_uxRdc]https://youtu.be/qjcV2_uxRdc[/video]
High-metal-content-planet with ammonia-atmosphere.
This one emits the screeching-sounds, but very high-pitched. There are other HMC with ammonia-rich-atmosphere which seem to mute background music leaving just sweeping winds and faint screeching-sounds, but system map reveals that their atmosphere is only "ammonia-rich", while other gases like nitrogen being the larger part.
[video=youtube_share;Gt0Ih-ap-8Y]https://youtu.be/Gt0Ih-ap-8Y[/video]
High-metal-content planet with sulphur-dioxide-atmosphere / nitrogen atmosphere / Helium atmosphere /water-atmosphere
This one emits a sweeping music with barely audible background winds. This may be the most common sound of HMC. Moste bluish/cloudy HMC emit this and if there is NO bubbling, then you have a false friend.
[video=youtube_share;KVuxG2V2Ej0]https://youtu.be/KVuxG2V2Ej0[/video]
High-metal-content planet with carbon-dioxide-atmosphere (terraformable) and methane-nitrogene atmosphere
This one mutes the music quite a bit and has much more wind-sounds, also I hear short screeching sounds. I've found the same sound to be emitted by a non-terraformable planet with methane-nitrogene atmosphere, too. The Video shows the difference between the sulphur-dioxide-atmosphere and the carbon-dioxide-atmosphere
[video=youtube_share;IUqnqghg8kY]https://youtu.be/IUqnqghg8kY[/video]
High-metal-content planet with carbon-dioxide-nitrogen-atmosphere (non-terraformable)
This one sounds quite similar to the sulphur-dioxide-ones. The video shows the difference between the terraformable HMC (carbon-dioxide) and the non-terraformable HMC (carbon-dioxide)
[video=youtube_share;a23mHlW6iUc]https://youtu.be/a23mHlW6iUc[/video]
High-metal-content planet with silicate-atmosphere
This one mutes music nearly completely, but gives a quite windy sound. Not to be confused with ammonia-worlds!
[video=youtube_share;2Id7gUk338Y]https://youtu.be/2Id7gUk338Y[/video]
The last video shows a compilation of the different sounds of HMC-Planets.
[video=youtube_share;9Kjf7hABYBg]https://youtu.be/9Kjf7hABYBg[/video]
Hope that helps!
today I came upon a system, that had a lot of different HMC-planets (and the first earth-like I found in the perseus-arm). I decided to do some recordings to be able to further distinguish the sounds. I was able to distinguish 4 different HMC sound-compositions, that may be related to the type of atmosphere.
Here are the examples:
High-metal-content-planet with no atmosphere.
This one emits screeching sounds, but very low-pitched
[video=youtube_share;qjcV2_uxRdc]https://youtu.be/qjcV2_uxRdc[/video]
High-metal-content-planet with ammonia-atmosphere.
This one emits the screeching-sounds, but very high-pitched. There are other HMC with ammonia-rich-atmosphere which seem to mute background music leaving just sweeping winds and faint screeching-sounds, but system map reveals that their atmosphere is only "ammonia-rich", while other gases like nitrogen being the larger part.
[video=youtube_share;Gt0Ih-ap-8Y]https://youtu.be/Gt0Ih-ap-8Y[/video]
High-metal-content planet with sulphur-dioxide-atmosphere / nitrogen atmosphere / Helium atmosphere /water-atmosphere
This one emits a sweeping music with barely audible background winds. This may be the most common sound of HMC. Moste bluish/cloudy HMC emit this and if there is NO bubbling, then you have a false friend.
[video=youtube_share;KVuxG2V2Ej0]https://youtu.be/KVuxG2V2Ej0[/video]
High-metal-content planet with carbon-dioxide-atmosphere (terraformable) and methane-nitrogene atmosphere
This one mutes the music quite a bit and has much more wind-sounds, also I hear short screeching sounds. I've found the same sound to be emitted by a non-terraformable planet with methane-nitrogene atmosphere, too. The Video shows the difference between the sulphur-dioxide-atmosphere and the carbon-dioxide-atmosphere
[video=youtube_share;IUqnqghg8kY]https://youtu.be/IUqnqghg8kY[/video]
High-metal-content planet with carbon-dioxide-nitrogen-atmosphere (non-terraformable)
This one sounds quite similar to the sulphur-dioxide-ones. The video shows the difference between the terraformable HMC (carbon-dioxide) and the non-terraformable HMC (carbon-dioxide)
[video=youtube_share;a23mHlW6iUc]https://youtu.be/a23mHlW6iUc[/video]
High-metal-content planet with silicate-atmosphere
This one mutes music nearly completely, but gives a quite windy sound. Not to be confused with ammonia-worlds!
[video=youtube_share;2Id7gUk338Y]https://youtu.be/2Id7gUk338Y[/video]
The last video shows a compilation of the different sounds of HMC-Planets.
[video=youtube_share;9Kjf7hABYBg]https://youtu.be/9Kjf7hABYBg[/video]
Hope that helps!
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Thanks Eisen, your material is super usefull. Unfortunately I have ti spread some rep before giving to you again.
Yesterday night I also discovered they changed the holo icon of Water Giants, now they have a gas giant holo icon.
So next week big update: I will try to clarify the HMC sounds, remove the holo icons explamations, and possibly try to find better false friend pictures.
to this purpose, does anyone have an HMC picture (system map) that looks like an ELW?
Yesterday night I also discovered they changed the holo icon of Water Giants, now they have a gas giant holo icon.
So next week big update: I will try to clarify the HMC sounds, remove the holo icons explamations, and possibly try to find better false friend pictures.
to this purpose, does anyone have an HMC picture (system map) that looks like an ELW?
sup Eisen!!!! Thanks again!!!!
Here's the proof Water Giants had their holo icon changed to the gas giant one.
Here's the proof Water Giants had their holo icon changed to the gas giant one.
With 1.4 they have slightly changed all planet sounds!!!!!!
It's an amazing work, even better than before, and now planets sound way more clear even on low-fi speakers.
Anyone claimining he can't listen to Water World Bubbling now is lier
Of course this means I have to record all new sounds and give the guide a massive update, and it's going to take time.
For now I'm leaving the current guide since the sounds are very similar, and start recording from tomorrow.
It's an amazing work, even better than before, and now planets sound way more clear even on low-fi speakers.
Anyone claimining he can't listen to Water World Bubbling now is lier
Of course this means I have to record all new sounds and give the guide a massive update, and it's going to take time.
For now I'm leaving the current guide since the sounds are very similar, and start recording from tomorrow.
Yes I noticed them. In my opinion the sounds in gal map are somewhat cosmetic and I like that. We can know what star we are jumping to from the description, and some of them seems to make peculiar sounds (like NS), but we shouldn't be given more information before actually jumping in.
On the other hand system map sounds got even more love, and the characteristic features of planet types have been underlined further. So this sounds are intended to give you informations.
Uff, tomorrow I'll learn how to record a vid, simple-edit it and upload to youtube, I cannot go on on asking others to do it. What programs you use Eisen?
Thanks a lot Eisen, amazing work!!!!
I've passed quite some time listening to HMC, and I came to the conclusion that they have 3 main different sounds patterns.
In my research they are random: unfortunately, listening to dozens, I found that neither atmosphere, terraformability, mass, metal% and anything else has to do with their sound.
One of the pattern is very similar to ELW, but without the bird chirping. Anothe path is identical to metal rich planets, and the last is the "proper" HMC sounds.
Your contribution has been super-usefull to understand they don't have just one sound.
On the other hand I'm recording my stuff now and not harrassing other posters anymore!!!
[video=youtube;Br6TVgU5BLI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br6TVgU5BLI[/video]
Greetings CMDR,
Yesterday, i spent few minutes to listen... the stars in galaxy map...
I don't know if it was already there in previous release, but star make sounds in galmap...
I tried to find something relevant between and star type... but no luck.
Anyone of you already noticed this ?
Yesterday, i spent few minutes to listen... the stars in galaxy map...
I don't know if it was already there in previous release, but star make sounds in galmap...
I tried to find something relevant between and star type... but no luck.
Anyone of you already noticed this ?
Since the Windows 10 upgrade it has become very easy: simply press "WIN + G" and start recording. If the video needs editing, I use Magix Video Easy HD.
Regarding to the sounds I still believe, that there are 4 different sounds of HMC. The "proper-ones" with the screeching (one is high-pitched, one is low-pitched) and those mostly have no atmosphere. Then the ones with the sweeping music and barely audible winds. And the ones that mute the music nearly fully and just have sweeping winds with some faint screeches. Both have atmospheres and thus are potentially terraformable.
Thank you again for this very helpful thread.
You are right, the "screeching ones" comes in low pitch and high pitch, but since I think they are recognizable I putted them in one cathegory to keep it as simple as possible. I've found several with this type that have an atmosphere though. On the other hand I've found windy types without atmospheres. And terraformability comes with all sounds.
So in order to keep the guide as simple as possible I made that big generalization and not putting complicated stuff about atmospheres and such. Also to my knowledge terraformability doesn't come with a particular sound.
All of this is a work in progress tough, and I listened to only about 70 HMC yesterday, so I can have missed sound patterns easy. Let's go on listening and prove my wrong with recordings!!!!!
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Yes, now stars make sounds when selected on the galaxy map. They resemble the real sounds of stars. I think that every star type has its sounds, and the difference is only audible in case of NS or BH main stars. Since you can already know star type by info panel, in my opinion these sounds don't give added information about the system. And I like this since it would be too easy to know too many things before jumping into a system. So, in my opinion, these sounds are a nice cosmetic adding to the gal map, and are taken from real, actual star recordings. Top notch work if you ask me, the cerry on top of the cake.