Engine sounds are disappointing

Originally Posted by PeterPanPan

Shado posted this in another thread. Now this is what it can/should sound like ... http://www.youtube.com/user/jafaem?b.../0/vkqXC2oUGqI

Awesome!

PPP

I've been playing IL2 since the original demo and I can say without hesitation that that is in fact not way a Mosquito sounds, at all !!! Just fire up 1946 and, oh, what's the word?... LISTEN!

Leave the sounds alone! I won't hear any more of this nonsense! LALALLALALLAALA



have a nice day.

[Dano]

Placeholders or bugged in my opinion, some of the internal sounds are great.

[Fafnir_6]

Well, there you have it, guys...The full range of opinions on the sounds in Il-2/CloD. I'm not sure about the "placeholder" argument (unless that was posted by one of the devs (link please, if so)). Maddox Games' track record WRT SOUNDS is not great, IMHO, they seem either unable or unwilling to make the sounds as awesome as they can be. Hopefully the push to have user-made sound packs accepted as allowable mod content will be successful and someone like Jafa or Tiger33 should be able to port their awesome sounds over to CloD without too much trouble.

Cheers,

Fafnir_6

[kimosabi]

Ofcourse we have placeholders. How would you otherwise explain stock IL-2 external sounds?

[Fafnir_6]

Originally Posted by kimosabi

Ofcourse we have placeholders. How would you otherwise explain stock IL-2 external sounds?

It certainly seems that way . What I was looking for was a link to an actual quote from Luthier or one of the other devs, stating that they intend to replace the current placeholders with better sounds. I heard the placeholder thing a lot recently, but I don't remember seeing any official word on it.

Cheers,

Fafnir_6

[kimosabi]

Originally Posted by Fafnir_6

It certainly seems that way . What I was looking for was a link to an actual quote from Luthier or one of the other devs, stating that they intend to replace the current placeholders with better sounds. I heard the placeholder thing a lot recently, but I don't remember seeing any official word on it.

Cheers,

Fafnir_6

Yeah, did a small search but I found nothing. The noob(lol) sounds does indicate that the game was rushed and they just had to slap some sounds in there. Better to have some sound than nothing at all. That's my only theory. I think I heard somewhere that Oleg did mention that they were placeholders but I'd have to read through every interview with him then.

[15JG52_Brauer]

externaly at least this is what a DB605 should sound like - can't believe the 601 is much different - where is the missing whine ? I'm sure even early il2 in 2001 sounded more like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0_R0iP7tc

[Ibis]

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This is really disappointing
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Disappointing! Dis-a-bloody-pointing! that noise emanating from the Spitfire is a damn travesty. I can forgive almost all the problems, $hit happens but the engines, no, no, no NO.

[zwiebacksaege]

i assume we all have two eyes as well as two ears. so the sound makes round about 50% of the realistic feeling the devs claim to simulate for us...

i don't know the real opinion of the devs about the sound issue.. but saying that its too expensive to place proper sounds and at the same time spending lot of (also expensive) time for proper ultra realistic exhaust flame sequence is simply mismanagement...

for me its like dicussing the color of the seats in a car while forgetting to mount wheels.

thanks for reading
maybe a dev reads this too.

[karvis]

Yes, you are right, Foofighter, sounds are surprisingly bad. Example: if you fly a Quick Mission => Free flight with Hurricane, inside cockpit sounds are acceptable but if you take outside view (press F eight) you hear almost excatly same sound as you here in IL2 1946 when flying Bf-109. It really does sound same...

But maybe there are some successful sounds also, I haven't gone through all the planes. Let's see. Or hear, actually.