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Discussion: Announcing Visual Sounds!

0th_Power

By 0th_Power,
Posted on: 2008-04-01 02:38 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion

 

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Hmmmm I wonder...if a Bubble Defender puts up his Personal Force Field...will it be like the "Cone of Silence" and the Visual Sounds would dissappear or become transparent?

I'm hoping that my blaster's time bomb has ticking words coming from it too...'cause I can NEVER time that sucker the right way! lol

good one Devs. Keep up the good work.

By the way...um...don't use the restrooms in City Hall today...the toilets may have Saran Wrap over them...

 

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I vow to ocasionally yell "FREEM!" when on my energy blast defender.

Enjoyed the smile this morning.

 

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Firstly, nice April Fools. You had me at first.
Secondly, I would also actually like to see this in game.
However I do realize at this point all you have made is 3 photoshops. But theres always the future right?

 

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This was great! I needed a good laugh. Thanks guys!

"Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgment."

 

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Guild Wars looks funny XD I kinda like the Stick figure look though...

The Only Token Black Guy

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I see the Devs decided to implement my idea for fixing the sound loop crash bug....

"All that crap is grey to me, no XP." - Positron 5/15/05 8:36am . . . The world stopped and silence ensued except for the sound of a crying infant off in the distance.

"Everyone needs to chill the hell out." - BackAlleyBrawler 11/13/08 3:26pm . . . Geeks around the world stopped and blinked.

 

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I was just waking up and it ALMOST got me :P But I figured it out ^_^ Nice

 

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The sad part is I don't use sound when I play the game, and I would love the visual sounds.....great joke, but oh how it would be nice

 

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Cute, if this was real i would so complain with everything else wrong in the game they have time to recode it for this!!!! but seeing its April 1st , Nice one!!!
Its nice to see even while recieving death threath and countless hate messages the Dev team can still have a sence of humor =]

 

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I know this is a joke, but I. So. Want. This. Feature.

"Halt, villain!" FWOOSH.
"Die, an hero!" Zzzzzzzzzap!
KAPOW! CRASH!

ZING!

 

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It's a shame, really, I would have liked a feature like this in the game. Maybe the public outcry when everyone realizes it was a prank will encourage them to pursue this path?

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You are not the first or even the second to voice this opinion. I think this joke is going to backfire on the Devs, now people are going to be pissed when they never get this feature.

DOOOMM! Devs hate Villains AND Heroes for teasing us with this...

But damn it is funny the reactions some people are having to this funny and elaborate prank. Though Honestly, If we could make our own size, color and words for the VSFX Id be down, but only if I could keep my real sounds too..

"Where does he get those wonderful toys?" - The Joker

 

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TLDR

I hope its an April Fool's joke seriously.

While i like the idea to have the option to have these KA-POW appear on the game screen, i am definitely not liking the idea to play in a City Of Silence.

Even after 4 years i still play with the CoH music and sounds and i like them. Not having any game sounds anymore would really be a deal-breaker for me. I understand the concept of comic books and stuff but nothing forces a hero game to look exactly like comics. If it was just me there would be VOCALS in this game and even more sounds...

Anyway, i hope its only an option or a funny joke

I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire

 

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lolz

 

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FREEM!!!!!

 

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Hehe good joke.
April fools day.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on bob over there. Fool me thrice umm .... wait thats not how it goes...

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nope... this is how it goes, silly!

-Listen to my Light!
-MA #1065 "Star Struck"

 

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My first thought upon pulling up the baords and seeing a new announcement was "okay, it's April first, and our dev team is entirely composed of people who seem to love a good laugh. Let's see what this is..."

Now, I'm laughing too much to think any more.

I wonder what Atlas Park's chatter looks like on Freedom today...

BackAlleyBrawler: I can't facepalm this post hard enough.
ShoNuff: If sophisticated = bro-mantically emo-tastic, then I'm going to keep to my Shonen loving simplicity dammit.

 

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i shall, in the first time in my forum career, yell DOOOOOOOOM.

Carry on.

 

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Bravo, CoX devs. This is a hilarious April Fool's joke. I'm just thankful you all didn't try to say closed beta was starting today, that would have been a bit far. >.>

"And of course, Steven Jay Blum is in it...He's the Sam Jackson of anime." -AmuroNT1

 

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Players can optionally disable the Visual Sounds in the options menu, but are encouraged to keep them on, as all the sounds in the game are being removed to make room on the playersÂ’ hard drives for the new Visual Sound graphics.

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I would have perfered the option to be able to use sounds, regular sounds. Why? To be better able to pin-point where glowies are. To be able to tell an enemy with heavy breathing is around the corner. To be able to hear from which direction enemies are attacking allies.

While these 'visual sounds' would come in handy when I do have to turn off my speakers, but for times when I can turn them on, it's cooler than absolute silence.

I sincerely hope that we'll be able to have sounds again.

*sigh* If this was a April Fool's joke, I'll have a long walk to kick someone's hindquarters....

 

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All sounds are being removed?

Yeah, this has got to be a joke. Nice one though. Almost got me.

Almost.