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Holy HAMSTER, the Heavy Howler noises are INCREDIBLY annoying
kromzor
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 2 Arc User
And by "Fix" I mean do something about their incredibly loud and obnoxious snarling they do every 5 seconds.
Gotta instance hop just to use the AH, or mute my volume. And you can hear them from so far away too...
Gotta instance hop just to use the AH, or mute my volume. And you can hear them from so far away too...
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It's a HOWLER. I would assume it would be loud.
I agree with this.
If it was relegated to special emotes or circumstances (like the animation that plays when you press jump while standing still) then it'd be fine. The problem is that I have to listen to it constantly whenever I'm just trying to browse the auctions/check my mail/wait for my party to show up, and my only option to stop the noise is to get off of my mount. When I pay $40 for a digital product I want to use it freely, not be compelled by its poor design to use it in a way that's more restrictive than the items I could've had for free. I never ONCE had to dismount when I was riding a horse, but now if I don't get off of the Howler I can barely concentrate on whatever I'm doing because the sound is far too loud to qualify as "background noise."
I really hope PWE/Cryptic look into changing this. I've had several people remark on how irritating the noise is, so I know I'm not the only one here. I've tried adjusting my volume options but unfortunately the noise is tied to the FX volume so if I turn that down I can't hear important gameplay noises either.
But...it was done on purpose, the frequency, the volume, the sound and the range in which you can hear it. They want peopl to 'take notice' and think 'ooh I want I mount like that aswell'.
Well there you go. Congrats!
It's yet another top notch development decision to go along with the rest outstanding game aspects.
(and add sounds for footstep)
also, it does make noise when running. she's just a very quiet runner. she doesn't have annoying hooves that clippity clop every time i run.
also, there is a volume slider for various components. turn it down if it annoys you. or turn it off and you can read all the questing dialog. just because you are personally annoyed doesn't mean that it's a huge issue that needs to be addressed - even if this was considered, it's so minute on the importance of game fixes totem pole.
just goes to show you that you can't please everyone all of the time.
the second thing, my own footsteps, it has this very short looping set of like 3 footsteps going over and over, i ended up muting the sound completely, i even take my cleric companion in when i ride my mount case she has this shlap shlap shlap sound going after me lol.
the voices was the first thing i turned off, then the ambience, im just left with fx. i wish i could turn off everything but my own sounds and that they fix that annoying footstep looping sound, once u notice it it will bug the hell out of you. I wont mention the howler, cause that just irritates me that they could let something into a game. maybe they have some spesial sound system where this actually sounds goods.
they should use EAX for ambience rather than hardcode them into their soundfiles, at least we would have the option to turn it off then.
Hate seeing them around. They look neat though.
and also the featured satirical comedic adventure "A Call for Heroes".
As for the howlers themselves. I bought it. Don't mind the growling to much, but I do try to remember to dismount as I know it irritates others. I kind of wondered why they have them growl a lot instead of, you know... howl. Like I said though, it doesn't bother me much. Just wanted a monstrous looking mount.