Federation pulse weapon sound effects

posted on June 9th, 2010, 5:52 pm

I have a question which I got a long time ago: Why is the weapon sound of federation pulse weapons (especially the sound effect of the Defiant!) so awkward? The weapon sound effect in DS9 episodes is way more powerful and sounds more dangerous than the effects in Fleetops. So why you choose not to copy the sound effects from a DS9 episode?

[Tyler]

posted on June 9th, 2010, 5:56 pm

Last edited by Tyler on June 9th, 2010, 6:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Would be a bit tricky, since there was at least 3 pulse sound effects for the main Defiant alone. Each one would have supporters.

Which do you pick?

posted on June 9th, 2010, 6:25 pm

Why not the first ones in 3x01?

And in which episodes do they change?

posted on June 9th, 2010, 6:35 pm

The episode with the Tal Shiar/Obsidion Order ambush had a different sound to later episodes. I think First Contact had its own, too.

posted on June 10th, 2010, 12:37 am

Yeah I've asked for this 2+ times .

  I asked for a special consideration to be given to the Defiant's pulses to have them fire in a BURST fashion (keeping the same DPS of course) and have a more canon sound.


  Optec said he'd consider it so maybe he forgot .

posted on June 10th, 2010, 12:59 am

I also support the defiant changes Boggz mentioned, the current weapon fire rate feels i dunno "lazy" not urgent.

Id like the audio for the defiant pulses to change too.

This is a good sound file, I got it from Bridge Commander Kobayashi maru mod. Ive already renamed it so just drop it in the sound folder for FLOPS.

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posted on June 10th, 2010, 1:17 am

Be careful though.  If you change that, you'll no longer be able to play online because you will technically have "different" copies of the game. 

posted on June 10th, 2010, 1:24 am

Nah, the wav shouldn't affect anything I believe

posted on June 10th, 2010, 1:29 am

You could try it quick and if it doesn't work, just replace the old one.  And installing FO again if you screw up really isn't that bad.

posted on June 10th, 2010, 1:34 am

Indeed - I'm nearly positive that changing the sound files doesn't effect anything though, as several people have deleted decom.wav with no evil effects

posted on June 10th, 2010, 1:35 am

Why reinstall aftr a failed test, anyway? Just copy the file out of the game folder and replace if it fails. Much quicker.

posted on June 10th, 2010, 2:13 am

I've also asked for the burst fashion and the sound of the defiants pulses in the past. I hope they change it some day

posted on June 10th, 2010, 2:24 am

They might know about it and change it in the future, then again the way I hear it next patch is gonna be huge and they probably arnt working to hard on pulse sounds, however it would be cool to have 3-4 different sounds