Remove the barking dog sound from town

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ShotgunJustice
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Remove the barking dog sound from town

#1 Post by ShotgunJustice »

The barking dog is very irritating, causing me to mute the town music, and I usually have a good tolerance level for these sorts of things. The music in town is great, untarnish it :-)

Amphouse
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Re: Remove the barking dog sound from town

#2 Post by Amphouse »

Yeah, I agree. While we're on the subject, is it just me or is the music in Last Hope WAY TOO LOUD!?

CaptainTrips
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Re: Remove the barking dog sound from town

#3 Post by CaptainTrips »

It's not loud, it's epic. :D

SageAcrin
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Re: Remove the barking dog sound from town

#4 Post by SageAcrin »

I've heard a surprising amount of complaints about this one sound effect-and nothing much else in the game, for sound effects.

So yeah, probably should go. It kinda grates on me, too, to be honest.

adrian
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Re: Remove the barking dog sound from town

#5 Post by adrian »

Also the animal sounds in the Yeek starting village are infuriating, to the point where I ALWAYS leave town before even setting level 1 abilities.

HousePet
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Re: Remove the barking dog sound from town

#6 Post by HousePet »

The volumes of various music and sounds could do with balancing.

I am constantly pressing the volume controls when playing ToME XD
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Chaosegg
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Re: Remove the barking dog sound from town

#7 Post by Chaosegg »

+2 for this idea. The barking infests not one but at least TWO towns!

Seriously, is this a "feature" designed to make us leave towns faster?
It's awful. Make it stop.

Most of the ambient background sounds are too loud in general...
could we have control of that or something?

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Re: Remove the barking dog sound from town

#8 Post by Atarlost »

Amphouse wrote:Yeah, I agree. While we're on the subject, is it just me or is the music in Last Hope WAY TOO LOUD!?
Yes. It's also used for Gates of Morning. If lowering the volume is done at the time of playback don't forget to lower it there too.

Derth Arena is a little on the raucous side as well, but not as bad as LH/GoM. On the other hand I think it can turn up in farportals where it has more opportunity to get tiresome.
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Effigy
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Re: Remove the barking dog sound from town

#9 Post by Effigy »

This sound should definitely go. The idea of a dog barking isn't terrible on principle, but that specific dog has a very ear-piercing bark. I've had to turn the volume down to avoid it driving me mad.

edge2054
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Re: Remove the barking dog sound from town

#10 Post by edge2054 »

Volume and frequency could be adjusted.

Marson
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Re: Remove the barking dog sound from town

#11 Post by Marson »

There's an addon that affects just the dog bark, or you could use my UI Mod to turn off all ambient sounds (dog bark, hawk screech, etc).

edge2054
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Re: Remove the barking dog sound from town

#12 Post by edge2054 »

Looks like Darkgod turned the volume down on the screech and the bark in a recent commit.

jenx
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Re: Remove the barking dog sound from town

#13 Post by jenx »

The dog is bad enough, but the creaky door is excrutiating !
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HousePet
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Re: Remove the barking dog sound from town

#14 Post by HousePet »

I barely notice those sound effects.
Maybe I have my sound really quiet?
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Re: Remove the barking dog sound from town

#15 Post by darkgod »

reduced doors
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