sound radar is back ... naaaaaaah!

Insuber · #1 11-20-2011, 10:38 PM

The crazy sound radar ruins all of the sneak attacks... I suffered this issue several times in ATAG, approaching an enemy plane from 6 o'clock low, in the blind spot. They hear you from > 300 m.
it wasn't present before last patch iirc.

Devs do something !

CaptainDoggles · #2 11-20-2011, 10:48 PM

I'm not convinced this is a problem.

I normally throttle back when I get close anyways, but even when I don't I'm not experiencing an epidemic of sound-radar. You make it sound like it's completely impossible to sneak up on anyone when this is in fact not true.

l3uLLDoZeR · #3 11-20-2011, 10:54 PM

I fly with the canopy open in the hurricane. I think you should be able to hear to some extent. I have no idea how much I should be able to hear, do u fly around in open cockpit biplanes or something that you know what it sounds like?

CaptainDoggles · #4 11-20-2011, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by l3uLLDoZeR

I fly with the canopy open in the hurricane. I think you should be able to hear to some extent. I have no idea how much I should be able to hear, do u fly around in open cockpit biplanes or something that you know what it sounds like?

Well, flying in a closed-cockpit Cessna is so loud that you need to wear headphones just to communicate.

That's a 175-hp turboprop. I imagine a World-war era 1000-hp+ fighter would be significantly louder.

#5 11-20-2011, 11:43 PM

WWII pilots have said in multiple interviews that you can't hear anything happening outside of your cockpit. Even with an open cockpit you're not going to hear anything because your engine appears to you, to be that much louder. The first clue that someone was firing at a pilot was when tracers were flying past their cockpit or rounds were impacting against their aircraft.

reflected · #6 11-21-2011, 05:31 AM

I agree, you shouldn't hear anything. Then again, I've never heard another aircraft from my cockpit in CloD. I don't think this problem exists.

CWMV · #7 11-21-2011, 05:35 AM

I noticed it tonight big-time. I knew a 109 was jumping me before my wing saw him because I heard the guy a mile away.

My own guns? Sure, I should hear them.
A 109 on my 6 high 500 meters out with a 1000 ft alt advantage? Probably not.
I dont notice it so much when I normally fly blue. Merlin's are quiet compared to the DB.

KeBrAnTo · #8 11-21-2011, 06:23 AM

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Originally Posted by reflected

I agree, you shouldn't hear anything. Then again, I've never heard another aircraft from my cockpit in CloD. I don't think this problem exists.

Neither I did, not sure about the first statement either.

KeBrAnTo · #9 11-21-2011, 06:24 AM

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Originally Posted by CWMV

I noticed it tonight big-time. I knew a 109 was jumping me before my wing saw him because I heard the guy a mile away.

My own guns? Sure, I should hear them.
A 109 on my 6 high 500 meters out with a 1000 ft alt advantage? Probably not.
I dont notice it so much when I normally fly blue. Merlin's are quiet compared to the DB.

+1

#10 11-21-2011, 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by reflected

I agree, you shouldn't hear anything. Then again, I've never heard another aircraft from my cockpit in CloD. I don't think this problem exists.

Well, for a lot of ppl this problem exists. I can hear aircrafts around me very neatly and so do others. If you do not hear it then either it is your soundcard or some specific settings I think.

EDIT: This sound radar is btw here since the very start of Clod but perhaps it got worse with the new sounds (which improved sound wise though)