Game Sound On or Off?

Greasetrap42

Greasetrap42
For veteran cmdrs with +100 hours of actual gameplay, do you have game sound turned on?

My Answer:
  • For the first 100 hours the game sound was okay. And when I visit something new. And during combat or potential combat its useful.
  • It can be useful during trade missions for alerting interdiction (wake me up, get my attention if task swapped).
  • During the long stretches of travel, exploration, mining, ship building, and relatively safe missions I completely turn off the game sound in favor of silence, music, or late night shows.
 

Riverside

Riverside
I have all the sound effects on except all music is muted & some voices are turned down, some audio messages are disabled.

The music was nice for a few weeks but it's been turned off since before Horizons launched IIRC.

I don't use a VR helmet, headtracker or headphones, I have a large monitor & pretty loud 5.1 audio that I rely on for positional information (direction I'm being shot at from etc) but my hearing isn't great (too many years blasting round country roads in open top cars) so I'm not really relying on the quality of the audio & any ambient noise is mostly just a distraction, it's just for positional info. I like the pips noises, I can hear them clearly & they give me useful feedback.

I often listen to my own music or podcasts in the background but that's only stereo so I still get the (excellent) positional info from ED.
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
I switch off the music if I'm listening to something interesting on the radio, but, even after all of these years playing, normally all sound is on - with levels adjusted for my preference.
 

aRJay

aRJay
After the nearly 7000 hours to date I have the game sounds on, the music is slightly turned down but no announcements are disabled IIRC.

I sometimes think turning off the music on planets would be a good idea as I find some of it creepy but I probably won't try to do that.

The soundscape in Elite is one of the things I love about the game.
 

Unknown Zombie

Unknown Zombie
For me, sound effects are never muted. Music is sometimes muted, though, depending on if I'm watching something or feel like listening to my own music.
 

Fnord Velkor

Fnord Velkor
No music (except on-foot ambient, i.e. in bars etc)

Most voice notifications OFF (who the Hades would keep the FSD countdown enabled???)

All sound effects full blast (but SRV fiddled-with - in fact turn down PC audio if actually travelling in the buggy).

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Ashnak

Ashnak
Music off. Most voice announcements off (I don't need you to tell me that the ship is overheating, I can see it). Audio effects on - how else will I know how much the engines are straining when doing a fast SC approach (and know when to throttle up or down)?
 

Cmdr Esteban

Cmdr Esteban
I’ve been playing since 2014 and have never understood this odd inclination to do other things like watch movies while playing. I just play the game with my full attention so the sound is on, as with any other audiovisual activity which demands my full attention.
 

CMDR-AD

CMDR-AD
I always loved the music and sound work in Elite Dangerous, from the very first version. It's always on, as I never do anything else in the background while playing Elite.
 

Lhorndra

Lhorndra
Music sometimes off, all sound effects always on, some voice notifications off.
I love most of the sound effects. Plus, they're great if you don't pay much attention because you're supercruising 300,000 ls.
 

Schmack

Schmack
5K hours, sounds are on but no music. I need to edit voice notifications, just never think about it while in game.
 

Helmut Grokenberger

Helmut Grokenberger
Cmdr Esteban said:
I’ve been playing since 2014 and have never understood this odd inclination to do other things like watch movies while playing. I just play the game with my full attention so the sound is on, as with any other audiovisual activity which demands my full attention.
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Yeah I find the question a bit weird, and turning off game sounds even weirder. I have no clue about @Greasetrap42 's age and don't want to assume anything, but maybe that's a generational thing. "Kids these days" and all that, always wearing their damn earplugs and being blasted with a multitude of sound sources, listening to music while watching TV, playing a game and chatting with their friends simultaneously... (typical old man rant).

As for the question: I'm at 2600+ hours or so, and I always have the game sound on. I like to be immersed in whatever game I am playing, and the soundscape is a big part of that.

I have most of the COVAS prompts turned off because they tend to get annoying, and I have the music turned off because I listen to the radio while playing. When I am exploring something new, new content or some kind of scavenger hunt, I usually turn the game music back on. If I have a stream running I am participating in I turn my game sound down a notch.

The only time I watch other stuff while flying is on very, very long supercruise journeys. Not 20k long, Hutton Orbital long.
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
I don't know how you could play with the sound off, tbh. It's a rich source of early notification information[1]... a lot of activities I do have a gated response for me opened up by hearing the noise of ships waking in... likewise I can even tell when something's not quite right by listening to the supercruise engine noises, even if AFK. Then of course, Thargoid Sensors and Probes... it's a rich source of information for me, would be like saying "Hey, who plays with the HUD off?"

Music off sure, but not sound.

We convinced a mate to play Portal (because he never had)... came back after and he said "Eh, puzzles were fine, got a bit boring towards the end"... we all kinda looked at each other somewhat flabbergasted because we knew the game's puns would've been right up his alley... so we started quoting things, but he didn't get the references. Turns out he played with all audio off... I just feel it would be the same here.

[1] Which makes this somewhat of a problem if you have hearing difficulties.
 
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