Titan weapon sounds, is it just me...

...or is something missing?

This is not an entirely rhetorical question, as I'm not sure if the sound just isn't working for me, but TW has basically no impact noise on my end. There's plenty of swooshing sounds as it gets swung around, but when it makes contact there's basically nothing. Compare it to pretty much every other melee set out there, and TW is the quietest of them all, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

Assuming that it's not just my computer and TW really is that quiet, I'm sure there are people who prefer it this way, which leads to my other question. To any devs/CMs reading, would it ever be feasible to have alternate sound effects, in a similar vein to alternate animations? I can think of more than a few times in the game when I personally would consider the sound effects less than ideal (Sonic Blast comes to mind) and it might be nice to have options.

It sounds like a wiffle bat on my end, too. This was brought up a lot when it was in beta, but was never really addressed AFAIK.

It's not just you.

Street Justice also has almost no impact sound effects. Lots of swishing but very little connection.

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I definitely hear an impact - kind of a boom/crash sound.

This was on a TW/SR brute. I'm sure I recall it from my ElA/TW tanker and TW/EA brute as well.

There are impact sounds, but they're a bit underwhelming. Comparing TW to something like SS is night and day.

Not only are the sound effects underwhelming, they're timed very poorly with the animations.

I have to agree. When I'm running with my Axe Tank compared to the two SG members with Titan weapons in that group, the difference is night and day. I love the CRUNCH of my Axe, and it's totally missed on TW. I also agree with the lack of impact sound on Street Justice too. The lack in both make them fairly underwhelming feeling.

The 'whoosh' of the swings on both sets are pretty loud, the impact isn't. It's almost like they got the volumes reversed on them. The woosh should be quiter, and the impacts much louder; of course, in my opinion.

Apparently I'm not alone in that opinion.

They should have a chat with their sound effects team.

It's not just you. A lot of people have complained about the flimsy sounds for the set. So far I haven't seen a dev acknowledge (never mind actually address) the complaints. It's possible it happened and I just missed it, though.

Staff is even worse, unfortunately. Whiff-whiff-whiff-swoosh.

It's worth mentioning that they've changed sounds before, even after a set has gone live -- the original sounds for the Sonic powers were a lot more... intense than what we have now, and apparently a significant number of players were complaining about them being migraine-inducing. People not only wouldn't play the sets, they wouldn't team with anyone who had them, because it meant either turning off their speakers or playing while in physical pain. This is almost the opposite problem, but it does mean there's a precedent for "fixing" sounds after the fact. Even so, I wouldn't hold out much hope for TW unless sales of the set drop off pretty severely and they can trace that drop conclusively to the sounds being unsatisfying.

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Originally Posted by DarkGob Not only are the sound effects underwhelming, they're timed very poorly with the animations.

Maybe because of the two different animation speeds? I could see that creating issues unless two separate sounds were used for each power as well. Which I guess would lend some credence to the "alternate sounds" idea -- something I'd be all for if it's possible, by the way, especially if the ray guns we've seen from the retro sci-fi pack are supposed to be used with Dual Pistols... ray guns go pew-pew-pew, not bang-bang-bang! (And now that I think about it, those flaming swords from the Fire and Ice set could stand a less "clangy" sound effect....)

No, it's not just you. I also find the sound effects of Titan Weapons underwhelming.

Play with your sound off, problem fixed.













Kidding, of course, but that's what I do.

Weird, the impact sounds seem louder to me than other people are saying.

You sure that isn´t the sound of the lots of knock ups/down/backs your attacks cause?

@Redcap

Walk up to the front of your car. Now slam your hood with both fists. That's what all but one Titan Weapons hit effects sound like. They sound like someone beating on an empty oil drum with a piece of wood. Most of the Titan Weapons are made of metal, be they swords, axes or hammers, and they're made of solid metal, at that, but they don't sound like solid chunk of metal. Here's another example you can try at home: Take a large, single-piece pipe wrench and hit it against a large stone if you have one handy, or just strike it against paved or tiled ground. Note the significant difference in the sound it makes.

Car hoods, oil drums, metal boxes and so forth make that hollow, booming sound because they're made of thin sheet metal that vibrates when struck. Thick metal objects like safes, car engines and tank armour make a very different, very distinct sound.

Now, granted, I get that Titan Weapons are going for a "BOOM! HEADSHOT!" sort of over-the-top explosive sound, but to be honest... They fail for nearly all powers. The problem is that all of the Titan Weapon powers are almost all bass and almost no treble. There's a lot of rumbling and booming, but that just makes the attacks feel underpowered and distant.

The ONLY power in the whole set which has a decent sound effect - and it's actually a damn good one - is Whirling Smash. This attack is what all of Titan Weapons should have been like. This attack has the booming oil drum sound that implies force, but it also has a kind of snapping sound which implies impact, as well. If all Titan Weapons sounds had some feel of impact as well as force, I'd be a lot happier with them.

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When I was a kid, we lived next to a vacant lot. One day, a giant pile of used aluminum siding appeared in the lot for no apparent reason. My brother and I used to grab sections of it and smack the hell out of each other with it, or chase our sister back inside the house if she tried to come out and play with us.

When I first tried TW it brought all those memories back, because the TW sounds are almost exactly what you get when you flail around with a big section of aluminum siding.

It's not just you. It's a shame how more recent sets have, mechanically, been stronger while at the same time being weaker when it comes to sound quality.

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