Gunship: and balance through aura.

[glad pawn]

Right now, outside of firemissions, which are not in this game, gunships are the silent and deadly enemy, despite being a huge craft.

Also its weapons are fairly silent and lack any sort of way that they are coming outside of a small blinking light.

"Don't stand on flares bro, very balanced, very avoidable"

Probably the dumbest mechanic, as flares are so free, I belive someone said 500 spawn roundstart, not counting if any are bought.

Not to mention that CAS is frankly, lame, compaired to the other fire support options like, mortar( thumps, whistling, is strong and has a counter) Tank(tank is its own balance discussion, but it is on the frontline, slow, fat, and very noticable where it is)

But then there is CAS, it is everywhere, it is nowhere.

CAS should have some way to let everyone on the battlefeild that it is up. Most maps are open air with a few closed spaces, and gunships would be pretty fucking loud, so having some sort of sfx or hud thing that lets you know that the gunship is overhead.

And for the attack runs itself, having some sort of engine whine as it is comming in for an attack would not only sound really cool, and FEAR RP, and take the guessing work of what 20 flares the pilot is looking at.

[gloomy lynx]

Sfx would be epic

[marsh lynx]

while this would objectively be a nerf i support gunship aura boost as marine main

[modest fjord]

Have the drop ship need to physically maneuver to whatever flare it's looking at if it wants to fire upon it. This is cued by a loud engine whine and a billowing dust effect around the flare once the drop ship is in position. CAS can use offsets on all of its weapons to strike in a set area around the flare for a fixed amount of time before needing to RTB, and in this time boilers or ground based manpads can target the drop ship.

Just a silly lil idea

[safe pecan]

honestly i would apply monkeys paw here, more defined audio cues might actually increase FTL’s inclination to actually coordinate with GP

[errant tangle]

Every weapon makes a noise when fired and when it impacts

I don’t know why people keep saying it makes no noise

It literally does

[lucid perch]

it makes a noise, it has an indicator, it has a CHATBOX INDICATOR WARNING YOU A GUNSHIP HAS FIRED.

the noise exists to you know WHEN something was fired, the ground indicator is letting you know "you got about 2 seconds to FUCKING RUN out of the center of the blast" and the chatbox indicator is the same as the sound, but it also tells you the direction

[glad pawn]

There is "noise" but it is very quite compaired to all other combat. I did testing on and most gunship weapons are quieter than the punch sound and most guns.

Gimme a few minutes and I will compair dropship sounds to other common sounds in the game

For comparison, the mortar, which is also devastating, has a long, distinct sound, while drop ship is a more "BANG YOUR DEAD" option

[errant tangle]

turn up your volume then?

It sounds fine to me

[glad pawn]

we dead ass?

[errant tangle]

Yeah

[glad pawn]

Great for you I guess

Like, it makes A noise

There is a noise that exists

that is not disputed

the problem is

the sound sucks

Laser sounds like a microwave alarm

[glad pawn]

I think that the quality of the sound, and how the sound is used could be better

Also I am not just idea guying here, I worked on the aegis and Behmoth projects in RMC

[errant tangle]

It’s the NVG noise plus a laser noise

[glad pawn]

I have that sound saved, let me get it

nope, not that one

[glad pawn]

Actualy yes, this is my biggest complaint. the laser sound being the same as NVG sucks, quite literally a place holder sound

Fuck it, I am going to pirate Adobe again and get a sample sound

See me later this week as pirating adobe is like a 3 hour ordeal and I have my day off on Thursday

[safe pecan]

i’m ngl if you put that to a poll i don’t think the vast majority of people hear it

i didn’t even know there WAS a noise

[glad pawn]

Because the noise is the same as very common noises already on the battlefeidl

[lucid perch]

love pirating adobe products..

[errant tangle]

No

It has to be a free use noise

[glad pawn]

bro

What are you even talking about?

[errant tangle]

If you’re gonna suggest a sound change

It has to be free use

[glad pawn]

Obviously. I did sound for RMC. You don't get free sound from adobe, you make a sound.

A sample is basically a rough draft to see what sticks

These are Some of the samples I worked on for a unfinished, and probably will never be released xeno boss.

These are recorded from me screaming into the mic. Actually so fun to do that.

Tom Raor 1 is just my screams. I belive these are the same screams used in the other 2, but I recorded quite a bit.