The new player sounds when swinging a melee weaponry (nightly 2015-01-11).

In the current nightly (2015-01-11) characters often makes sounds when swinging a weapon (not the weapon sound itself).

Videos with examples.
Human female:

Glitch male:


I assume this was included it to make characters feel more alive (they were completely soundless unless damaged so that is kinda understandable).

But in my humble opinion its realy annoying to hear those sounds constantly (especially for races that has more annoying racial sounds, for me personaly the Hylotl sounds realy bother me even tough i like the race in general).

I dont think i'm the only one that has this reaction.

Im not realy sure how to fix it while still keeping the sounds, but perhaps you (chucklefish) could try making the sound play more rarely (if you havent allredy tested that).


If anyone else have toughts about the new sounds (be it like or dislike) feel free to share your thoughts in this thread.

EDIT: The matter manipulator sounds:

Feel free to comment on them too.

 

Its annoying, and the new sound of Matter Manipulator makes while mining any ore is also annoying.

 

I like it, the human voices could use a little more variation to match the current voice(or change the damaged voice), but I love the idea.

 

Unnecessary changes tend to be easily ignored, but these need to be removed. I like playing as Hylotl and Novakid, and hearing that muffled duck sound over and over and over and OVER AND OVER AND OVER is annoying. I'm good at not getting hit by enemies, so hearing it only when I take fall damage is fine. Hearing it every other swing? I usually play without sound anyway since the music on planets isn't as good anymore, but now I have no reason to have sound on with these annoying sound effects, other than to fix problems with mods.

I hope this gets reverted. I'd hate to have to rely on a mod whenever I want sound on, if that ever happens again.

 

I like the direction of trying to make your character seem a live, but. . .

Hopefully they will also implement a wider variety of sounds. Only having two will get annoying just because of how repetitive this is. Slight variations would also do it. Playing them more rarely would help, and giving the players an option to disable player sounds or certain sound types like this would also help.

 

i like it
it sounds like your blowing bubbles =o

 

I have not noticed any of these sounds until now... Strange.

 

They were recently added in the nightly branch, hopefully they are a work in progress.

 

The hills are aliiiiiive with the sounds of NOPE.

 

Eh, some will find any given thing annoying no matter what. There will be a mod for it, just give it a few days or something. Personally I like it!!

 

Anyone can upload some kind of vid featuring the new matter manipulator sound? Dont want to risk going into nightlies yet.

 

I'm not playing nightlies or unstable either but the great news is we should have a new, shiny stable this month.

 

Here ya go:

 

I do not like hearing characters grunt over and over and over

 

Reminds me of binding of isaac poop popping.

 

Why even implement these sounds? The new MM sounds well, like a bubble blowing machine in a cartoon than some futuristic device that allows mining, liquid collecting, etc. The grunts are all kinds of no because hearing them almost every time you swing a weapon is going to make me want to hit the damn mute button or mode it out.

 

Simple: To get feedback from the community on whether it's good or flat out bad, and if it's something that can be improved upon or needs to be scrapped. It's essentially a test. Based on the feedback I imagine they'll either scrap it or make the grunts very rare.

 

Aaaah.... The new MM sounds like a drippy faucet... I feel like it should make more of a vacuum tube kinda noise like "shhhhhloop shloop shloop shloop shwoop."

 

You be quiet with your sound logic and reason, it has no place on the internet, let alone a video-game forum.

In all seriousness, I don't mind the attack sounds, I've heard much worse sounds in games to be sure, but they need to be much more spaced out. As for the MM sounding like a bubble blower, it could make that sounds when placing liquid somewhere instead of for doing everything, context-sensitive you know.

 

The grunts sound like the guy's being attacked.