Horizons Shout-out to the sound designers

DanGriswold

DanGriswold
I think the Sound Designers need some serious applause. I don't hear to much chatter about this in the forums and they go largely unnoticed.

I play on Xbox One on a nice big flat-screen. The sound coming out of those are pretty poor, so I recently went out and got some speakers (just computer speakers, really, but it has a subwoofer at least). It improved, but nothing to write home about. Well, my wife is a nurse and she works nights sometimes, so when she's sleeping during the day, I'd have to turn the sound way down to not disturb her. So, I got myself a set of headphones...

....WOW!

I never knew there were so many levels of sound in this game! Obviously a lot of time and effort and talent went into creating the sound in this game. I've always been more interested in the visual aspect of Elite (which is beyond beautiful, so I haven't forgotten about you visual artists, don't worry), but I am now really appreciating the audio aspect of the game.

Kudos to you!
 

mp4x

mp4x
Agreed. The sounds is mint, and I'm a volume-up always guy. Listening to creaks and groans of the metal when I went in for my first planetary landing, as I hit glide, was amazing[in VR.]

The sound of the UFO is on point, too
 
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Panticus

Banned
Panticus
Agreed. The sound design is brilliant. Pity about the lack of imagination everywhere else in the 'game'.
 

777Driver

777Driver
DanGriswold said:
I think the Sound Designers need some serious applause. I don't hear to much chatter about this in the forums and they go largely unnoticed.

I play on Xbox One on a nice big flat-screen. The sound coming out of those are pretty poor, so I recently went out and got some speakers (just computer speakers, really, but it has a subwoofer at least). It improved, but nothing to write home about. Well, my wife is a nurse and she works nights sometimes, so when she's sleeping during the day, I'd have to turn the sound way down to not disturb her. So, I got myself a set of headphones...

....WOW!

I never knew there were so many levels of sound in this game! Obviously a lot of time and effort and talent went into creating the sound in this game. I've always been more interested in the visual aspect of Elite (which is beyond beautiful, so I haven't forgotten about you visual artists, don't worry), but I am now really appreciating the audio aspect of the game.

Kudos to you!
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Yup, the sound in this game is genius, we all praised Jose and his team for the effort they put in. There was a brief period when the sound went a little screwy (shortly after release) https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/70467-Please-for-the-love-of-god-fix-the-sound!

Jose was kind enough to contact me via PM, sound went back to it's former glory and has got better ever since.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/8236-Meet-the-Team-10-Jose-Castro-(Sound-Designer)
 

Lightspeed

Lightspeed
Can't praise the sound guys/gals enough, in my opinion. They have created an acoustic environment that makes a rich contribution to the game. [up]
 

Habu2u

Habu2u
I don't play a lot of games anymore, so I don't have much to compare it with. But the overall quality of the sound environment in this game is amazing! The last time I was this impressed with the sound in a game was playing the old original "Doom". Wonderful sound adds so much to the game. Well done FD sound department.
 

Straker

Straker
Yes, agree that the sound is top notch and like 777Driver alludes to, you are not the first to notice this and a BIG deal has been made about this ever since launch, so you must have missed it all.

The only criticism I'd make is that sometimes the mixing is a little off and things like NPC SLF pilots are a little too loud, punching through the mix more than they should. Having said that, mixing is not an easy thing to get right across everyone's diverse setups. I use a good Hi-Fi setup and love what they've achieved.

Again, this has been noted previously but let us not forget the good work that Erasmus Talbot did with the music, which is superb.
 

Apsley

Apsley
Yep, agreed completely the sound design is absolutely ace.

But I'd just say the look of the game is great too. In the same way the sound is full of lovely subtle details, the look of the game has had the same attention. It's quality all round.

I'm heading back from a short trip out, about 10k out from the bubble, and it may have been my imagination but have they added some new music when you're just floating in space? Perhaps I shouldn't have watched all those alien interdiction clips but I was slightly spooked.

Anyroad, it's credit to the the whole creative team that my imagination was working overtime.
 

zz9pa

zz9pa
Boosting a cutter sounds awesome.
I'm hoping, if ever I'm able to buy a Tesla, FD sound engineers can rig up that sound to my right foot :)
 

Hawkeye

H
I have to say my favourite element of the soundscape is the radio chatter near space stations, I always switch off flight assist upon leaving just to listen to the chatter, fantastic!
 
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