Sound Customization

There's probably a reason why we can't have it, but ...

I was thinking last night while I was busting out my Archer Blaster.

I just don't like the SOUND the archery set makes when you use it. I'm not super crazy about the sound of some other sets either.

Any chance that someday we may be able to pick the sounds our sets make when we activate them?

There are ways of swapping out certain sound files for others, but I wouldn't know how to do that nor do I think that's within the EULA. Granted some sound effects could be improved, but when it comes to certain pieces of hardware like bows and guns, the ability to change the /sound/ it makes seems a bit odd.

Do guns of the same type fire distinctively different from one piece to another? Shot variance aside, the same kind of gun will fires more or less the same as another gun of the same.

But if we're talking about other kinds of powers like Energy blast and such, it might be interesting to hear different sounds coming from that, it's less based on real life so you could go wild with it.

Sonic attacks really need this...
Some sounds gets really annoying, and its weird having those sonic weave scream sounds on a female character.
This should come with power custom.

Well, there is a way to *silence* some game sounds if you find them annoying. As this thread explains, you can put a '1 second of silence' sound file with the proper name in the proper place and the annoying sound won't play any more. Not quite what you're looking for, but I believe it's the most we're allowed to do at this point under the EULA.

I'm not saying I wouldn't like this, because I really would...

But the thing that bugs me about it is, Power Customization of colors is one thing, there are only so many colors out there, sure we don't have them all but we have a lot, and if you can't find the color you want there is probably something pretty close to it...

But sounds is kind of like animations, so many different possibilities that is seems unrealistic. And when someone gets what -they- want, you know a different person is going to demand what they -themselves- want.

But nonetheless I would like this, just I don't think it would ever happen, we can't have our cake and eat it too.

Personally, I wouldn't mess with powers as there's really no one large-scale selection of attributes that would be appropriate for every power. You'd basically need unique alternate sounds specific to each attack, and that's far too much work for it to work.

Personally, though, I'd like to see customization of basic sounds, such as foot steps, grunts, possibly breathing, Taunt and so on. For instance, it KILLS me that all of my women sound like they're walking in high heels, even when they're wearing giant armoured boots or are walking around barefoot. Allowing me to pick my footstep sounds from even a small selection like slapping bare feet, clanging metal boots, goose-stepping jack boots or, yes, even clopping high heels would be great. I know we have a few different surfaces to have footstep sounds on, but I'm not sure there are too many. It just feels REALLY weird to see a girl running around in bare feet and sound like she's hammering a stake on each step.

Or how about NO footstep sounds because you're a silent ninja?

Grunting, taunting and shouting sounds would be very cool, as well. Generally I don't mind, but especially the female ones are deigned around the voice of a fairly shouty adult woman with a somewhat deeper voice, and so are completely inappropriate for very young girls. Not that the breasts slider will let us make them, but that's besides the point. Robotic grunts would probabl be cool, too, as would beastly growls, insect clicks and even just NOTHING.

It's the little things that pile up to make a good game great (or a bad game terrible).

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