Very short development update - Page 10

albx · #1 08-01-2011, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by furbs

What would be quite easy to do, as Luthier has said they have made good progress on the sound would be to show us a small sample of the sound.

so post a clip of banjo music, or post a very small clip of the new sound.

what would go down better?

hhmmm... the banjo wasn't a joke... they just changed the background music in the menu with this

Robert · #2 08-01-2011, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by furbs

What would be quite easy to do, as Luthier has said they have made good progress on the sound would be to show us a small sample of the sound.

so post a clip of banjo music, or post a very small clip of the new sound.

what would go down better?

I have no answer why. There could be multiple reasons why a sample hasn't been released. I could speculate, but it would just add to the uneasiness. I'll be patient.

Skoshi Tiger · #3 08-01-2011, 12:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by furbs

What would be quite easy to do, as Luthier has said they have made good progress on the sound would be to show us a small sample of the sound.

so post a clip of banjo music, or post a very small clip of the new sound?

what would go down better?

This is pure speculation on my part, BUT, if the sound is generated by the sound engine rather than simply a recorded sample, any sound that they could let us hear would be a work in progress.

If they let us hear the sound now and then they had to decrease the quality due to performance issues the development team would be virtually crucified by certain elements in the community, who would take any examples of work in progress items as a promise that this is how the finished sounds would be.

Also the quality of any sounds, like a lot of other things being discussed is purely subjective. What sounds good to me would sound atrocious to 90% of the community, (a misspent early life time of loud music, loud cars and quite a bit of shooting on the farm without hearing protection may account for some of it

) just as some of the examples put forward by others in previous threads don't sound good to me.

As far as I'm concerned, until they let us hear the sounds in the proper context none of us would be able to judge anyway.

Hope they get that next patch out to us as soon as it’s ready!
Cheers

furbs · #4 08-01-2011, 12:22 PM

But thats what all we had before release "WIP" shots or "placeholders", im sure we would mind hearing a WIP sound of a 109 start up.

Again pure speculation from me, but it seems they said they were 95% finished after 2 weeks makes me believe were not getting "new" sounds, more like the old sounds redone from the start.

Hope im wrong.

anyway, anything would of been better than the banjo music.

Robert · #5 08-01-2011, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

He's saying there's not a finished product to display. Progress and finished product are different things and when something is finished it didn't just materialize out of thin air.
In our case here, progress is probably a bunch of C++ code, but i doubt it would be useful to most of the people here, hence there's nothing to show.

Imagine this "Hey guys, today we made great progress in the sounds, here's what we did", followed by a few hundred lines of code. How do you think the forum would react to this very real, very "inside info" type of progress report?

On top of that, to explain Tomat's objection, there HAS been progress made on the game. If Luthier made his last update June 3rd indicating AI fixes and a few other corrections and then releases a patch several weeks later, you can't say they haven't done any work/progress on the game. He's fulfilled one half of his June 3rd update on June 24th. The other half has taken longer, which he admitted to 8 weeks ago. Last week he gave a very brief update saying things are going well with the sound engine. The team IS working on it.