Author Topic: Railgun hum...... (Read 5839 times)

ReCycled · « **on:** March 26, 2006, 08:28:18 PM »

Somewhere in the Bot_drop section someone said he never knew the railgun did that. I was surprised because when I started Quake years ago that was the one of the first annoying sounds I heard. Just switch from one weapon to the rail and you will hear it humming like a ungounded stereo system. It is the default rail sound in the Quake pak file. I re-recorded it to a blank sound and replaced that into the pak file to get rid of it. I use 'real' speakers on my desk (8" x 16" 2-way) because I want to hear my MP3s properly. If you have plastic computer speakers they have no low frequency information - so no rail hum. No decent sound either.

naymlis · « **Reply #1 on:** March 26, 2006, 09:50:29 PM »

the hum is important

Punk_FAS · « **Reply #2 on:** March 26, 2006, 11:37:54 PM »

Yeah, some people change the hum with a LOUDER noise, so they can hear their opponent. Gives away their position, or at least gives you a clue that they're near (and that they're toting a railgun). Much the same with the BFG, at least in this pak I have, it makes the BFG beep-beep-beep rapidly, unfortunately it hasn't modified the railgun sound though, seems default to me, and not very loud. I have people sneak up right next to me and I don't even notice sometimes.

inhuman · « **Reply #3 on:** March 27, 2006, 01:15:12 AM »

are u kidding me? replacing the hum? lol

i love the hum and the railgun wouldnt be what it is without it

[BTF] Reflex · « **Reply #4 on:** March 27, 2006, 02:17:20 AM »

I thought about replacing it with some railgun theme music, like a nice low mello beat.

haunted · « **Reply #5 on:** March 27, 2006, 04:12:16 AM »

The hum is important on some maps, it helps you pull prediction shots.. doubt too many people know what im talking about though

soso · « **Reply #6 on:** March 27, 2006, 05:24:32 AM »

You mean like... actually shooting an empty spot without knowing for sure if your opponent is there?
Holy shit!

haunted · « **Reply #7 on:** March 27, 2006, 06:45:07 AM »

when i said 'doubt too many people know what im talking about' I was referring to USING the hum to help prediction shots... It's a glitch on some maps, most useful on dm3.. depending on where the person is, if you're in the right spot the hum will change.

X'tyfe · « **Reply #8 on:** March 27, 2006, 08:46:14 AM »

the vanilla sound for rail/bfg is to quiet i find

can hardly here it
my pak replaces them both with different loud hum noises

ReCycled · « **Reply #9 on:** March 27, 2006, 11:27:07 AM »

Maybe for strategic reasons I should replace the standard hum with "he's got a railgun!!...he's got a railgun!!"sound. This should make the ambient sounds on an all-rail map interesting. This brings up another thing I forgot about.

Matster and I used to team together when we connected at Vanilla. We would change to Cow skins to recognise each other. Naturally other meanie players would change to Cow to confuse us. So I thought I would be clever by binding a unique sound to my keyboard and invoke it occasionally to identify myself and also tell him where I was on the map. I sent him the same sound and we both put it in our baseq2\sounds file so only we would have it. Anyway it didn't work. When I used the sound I, of course, could hear it but he couldn't - even up close. Anyone have any ideas how to signal a specific player where you are?

naymlis · « **Reply #10 on:** March 27, 2006, 11:42:00 AM »

Quote from: ReCycled on March 27, 2006, 11:27:07 AM

Maybe for strategic reasons I should replace the standard hum with "he's got a railgun!!...he's got a railgun!!"sound. This should make the ambient sounds on an all-rail map interesting.

X'tyfe · « **Reply #11 on:** March 27, 2006, 11:45:22 AM »

i dont think its possible to do that, using the "play" command only works for yourself

naymlis · « **Reply #12 on:** March 27, 2006, 12:02:04 PM »

what?

X'tyfe · « **Reply #13 on:** March 27, 2006, 12:09:57 PM »

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Matster and I used to team together when we connected at Vanilla. We would change to Cow skins to recognise each other. Naturally other meanie players would change to Cow to confuse us. So I thought I would be clever by binding a unique sound to my keyboard and invoke it occasionally to identify myself and also tell him where I was on the map. I sent him the same sound and we both put it in our baseq2\sounds file so only we would have it. Anyway it didn't work. When I used the sound I, of course, could hear it but he couldn't - even up close. Anyone have any ideas how to signal a specific player where you are?

naymlis · « **Reply #14 on:** March 27, 2006, 01:26:54 PM »

ah i skipped that paragraph.. my bad :d

Author Topic: Railgun hum...... (Read 5839 times)

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