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Corny Sounding Alien Guns


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I will start this thread off saying... the human guns sound great. They sound solid, echoey, and powerful. The Covenant and Promethean guns? Not so much. I saw a Behind-The-Scenes video from 343 showing how they made sounds for all the guns. It displayed them shooting LMGs in shooting ranges and recording the sounds. What great effort!

 

But then, they used the same darn technique for the Alien guns. The Storm Rifle sounds like a human submachine. They wiped the classic plasma sounding Plasma rifle, Plasma repeater, plasma.... rifle sound and replaced it with a human gun sound. Not cool. It's just another gun just with a cool skin.

 

The Promethean Suppresssor has the same problem. It sounds just like a sub machine gun. They have no sci-fi aspects to them what so ever. The Scattershot, boltshot, and binary rifle, all great. The Suppressor sounds too human imo.

 

What do you guys think? Being an amature film editor and pac-man esque game designer, I think this problem can be easily solved just by replacing the sound files... right? Or is it much more complex on a grand scale game like this. I hope there's a solution. I"m just throwing this out there, and I hope that 343 can just change the sounds. They don't affect gameplay at all, and will just be courteous nod to my request.

 

Thanks for reading, comment your... comments.

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Why are you so angry? lol :P ... but really. The Storm Rifle sounds like a machine gun. @0:23 http://youtu.be/eFDNQnUQfU4

Common now. Listen to that. Does that sound Alien or like a machine gun.

 

It has a "popping" element to it that makes it neither human nor covenant, but possibly the world's fastest bubble wrap popper.

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I don't know what Corn sounds like so I have no comment.

Obviously you a comment since you posted something, despite it being rather irrelevant. However, with you being an English speaker, I sincerely hope that you were being moderately humorous in your comment, or else you might be the biggest idiot I have ever seen. Corny is a common day term, and if you don't know what it means, I wish you the best of luck at McDonalds.

 

It has a "popping" element to it that makes it neither human nor covenant, but possibly the world's fastest bubble wrap popper.

 

OH COMMON. Listen to this, at 1:15. Listen to that HUMAN LIGHT MACHINE GUN FIRE! Does that human machine gun sound humany... or like a cool Covenant plasma sound?? I hope that redundant question makes its point. Seriously. They sound exactly the same. Go up to the previous video I posted, and go to 0:23. Pause it after you listened to the Storm Rifle fire. Then, listen to the second video. Exactly the same. Perhaps you guys never played Battlefield 3 or heard a real gun fire, but the second I heard the Storm Rifle and Supressor fire, I facepalmed because of how human they sounded. Not even sci-fi at all. If you have any argument, please listen to that gun clip again at 1:15.

 

It is odd that the plasma pistol sounds nothing like I expected. Everything sounds raw, like a human weapon. The promethean weapons feel very uninspired to me, basically reskinned human weapons. They just need another audio effect to make it sound "alien".

Yes. This. Yes. :D

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Obviously you a comment since you posted something, despite it being rather irrelevant. However, with you being an English speaker, I sincerely hope that you were being moderately humorous in your comment, or else you might be the biggest idiot I have ever seen. Corny is a common day term, and if you don't know what it means, I wish you the best of luck at McDonalds.

 

Do you know how many Kids with College degrees work for minimum wage now? Strike 1

Thought I was even remotely serious. Strike 2

Tries to sound smart and put me down, Strike 3

You went full retard. You never go Full retard.

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Do you know how many Kids with College degrees work for minimum wage now? Strike 1

Thought I was even remotely serious. Strike 2

Tries to sound smart and put me down, Strike 3

You went full retard. You never go Full retard.

We're not playing baseball here. Dumb people going to community college doesn't count. ... But that's not the point here, please stay on topic. You were trying to sound funny by commenting: "I don't know what corn sounds like" which does nothing to advance the conversation and just serves to be blank space. It's rather stupid. Common now. What was the point of that? Btw, your response reminds me of an eighth grade bigot who believes that once he has declared his statement, he is immediately right. Wait, actually, you sound exactly like you are in eighth grade... so... I'm just going to continue to try to convince 343 to change the sounds, while you steam with utter annoyance.

 

the plasma pistol sounds stupid

Stupid isn't quite the word, I would say, but we're on the same page. :D

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I think the other alien weapons sound pretty good. I only have a little bit of an issue with how the Storm Rifle sounds. It just doesn't sound powerful at all.

 

That being said, I don't know what I would do to change it, so I'll have to take it like it is.

I think they might be able to just replace the sound file. Like, if (gun fired) play *soundfile*. Nothing larger than a patch, right?

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The Covenant Carbine sounds best and powerful when you are using it while you're in a Regeneration Field. The Storm Rifle makes a guzzling sound of plasma when you stop firing it, and it gets corny. The plasma pistol really sounds like a silenced pistol, and it fires too fast imo.

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  • 2 weeks later...

please tell me more how your an expert on alien guns

 

Alright. I'm an expert on alien guns.

 

Ok I really am not. But from playing all the other Halo games, I know for sure that Covenant guns sound nothing like human guns. In this game, they happen to DO sound like human guns. .... I have no idea where you're coming from, it's like saying: "This Big Mac tastes like a Whopper." and then somebody like you comes in and says: "Please tell me more how your (which should be spelled you're) an expert on how Big Macs taste."

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The plasma pistol fires super heated plasma... and it sounds like a bullet coming out of it. Not cool.

 

If they sounded more like alien guns I'm sure that people would complain that they sounded like Star Wars blasters, or that they stole that noise from some sci-fi movie. It's not that big of a deal. I agree with the storm rifle though.

 

And the beam rifle from halo reach sounded like star wars.

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