Well I have to agree... in the famous words of Denise LaSalle - Don't mess with my pew pew.
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News Feature Requests Update #9- In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream
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Please please please include Ride of the Valkaries... I loved so much time streaming around the galaxy to that tune.
A point to consider is that this realistic option is becoming familiar to TV/film SciFi audiences (e.g. Battlestar Galactica). It is fast becoming the naturalism which audiences expect. Go for it
Binaural sound effects please, they would go great with the 3d cockpit. Sample - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXPAWtODvY.
Sound could also be used for scanning... we can be scanning for radio emissions from other vessels (a weak help request), planets, astronomical events. Then there could be signals only discernible when multiple ships form a listening array. Or even long range broadcast beacons for explorers to leave a trail. Then they could somehow use that to make coordinates for a jump. Other sounds at http://spacesounds.com/.
Sound could also be used for scanning... we can be scanning for radio emissions from other vessels (a weak help request), planets, astronomical events. Then there could be signals only discernible when multiple ships form a listening array. Or even long range broadcast beacons for explorers to leave a trail. Then they could somehow use that to make coordinates for a jump. Other sounds at http://spacesounds.com/.
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Apologies for necromancing...
I'm sitting here listening to some music thinking how good it would be to play ED to and found this thread where the devs say there won't be a jukebox function. No probs, I can stick it on in the background.
However, not sure whether this is common in PC games as I've been on consoles for new games in the last 7 years, but an event driven jukebox would be pretty good IMO. Obviously the ED score will be tuned to the game and maybe a jukebox wouldn't have the same feel, but maybe it would stop you getting fed up with the ED score (depending on number of tracks - FFE had 17 which was a lot but given the length of time you played the game...), helping to keep it fresh.
AFAIR FE2 and (although maybe only?) FFE both played one of a certain number of the tracks when something happened (depending on your settings for music after hyperspace/docking/battle). It would be pretty good if you were able to nominate tracks of your own music collection to be played on these events. So you could play an intense high energy track for battles, or an upbeat soothing track after docking. So kind of like what FFE did anyway, but with your own choice of music.
My only experience of jukebox functionality in PC games has been that it randomly played tracks from a single playlist, there was nothing to tie the music to what was happening in the game. So maybe I've missed it. And in any case it's not going to happen for ED but I thought I'd at least try to plant a seed
I'm sitting here listening to some music thinking how good it would be to play ED to and found this thread where the devs say there won't be a jukebox function. No probs, I can stick it on in the background.
However, not sure whether this is common in PC games as I've been on consoles for new games in the last 7 years, but an event driven jukebox would be pretty good IMO. Obviously the ED score will be tuned to the game and maybe a jukebox wouldn't have the same feel, but maybe it would stop you getting fed up with the ED score (depending on number of tracks - FFE had 17 which was a lot but given the length of time you played the game...
), helping to keep it fresh.AFAIR FE2 and (although maybe only?) FFE both played one of a certain number of the tracks when something happened (depending on your settings for music after hyperspace/docking/battle). It would be pretty good if you were able to nominate tracks of your own music collection to be played on these events. So you could play an intense high energy track for battles, or an upbeat soothing track after docking. So kind of like what FFE did anyway, but with your own choice of music.
My only experience of jukebox functionality in PC games has been that it randomly played tracks from a single playlist, there was nothing to tie the music to what was happening in the game. So maybe I've missed it. And in any case it's not going to happen for ED but I thought I'd at least try to plant a seed
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