Please fix lava noise

[Wizzly_Bear]

It's way too freaking loud.

[Bronko]

It's way too freaking loud.

I'm sorry, but did you say something about changing the background sound effects? I'm having a hard time concentrating at the moment because the deafening sound of lava has left me a little dizzy. :rolleyes:

[sirgog]

I've only noticed this in one location (Mt Reysalon, near shrine), but by god it's loud!

[Lorichie]

I've only noticed this in one location (Mt Reysalon, near shrine), but by god it's loud!

Inside Pop as well...I wasnt expecting it and the poor caster died while i was trying to turn down volume:(

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[tihocan]

Noticed it in Mt Reysalon also, could definitely be toned down.

[WeaselKing]

/signed

I had to turn effects down low enough that I am missing all my tells because I can't hear the "ding".

[VirieSquichie]

If by noticed you mean 6 voices in chat moaning in pain (almost inaudibly because the lava noise was far louder than the people, despite a 1.00 to .01 difference on the sliders) then yes I've noticed.

[Jondallar]

naw its a nice immersive touch. tough to communicate in a lava field or a cauldera

[gfunk]

found it painfully loud.. and my volume setting are super low. Similar experiences in pop and mt reyselon, though no one died.

[Justan]

Don't do it Turbine, for if you do you shall be once again accused of catering to the whiners - you know, similar to the ones who said that the Kobolds in the first quest were too hard and they had a hard time advancing to Stormreach...

/ refused signature

:D

Play on!

[QuantumFX]

naw its a nice immersive touch. tough to communicate in a lava field or a cauldera

It's also tough to keep playing late at night when you've managed to anger your spouse cause they can hear said lava field or cauldera eminating from your headset from 2 rooms away.

[Gornin]

Please!

[Wizzly_Bear]

/signed

I had to turn effects down low enough that I am missing all my tells because I can't hear the "ding".
were you able to shut off the noise? short of turning the volume down directly on my computer i could find no way to turn this noise down. I tried each individual slider.

[Solmage]

It was a bit TOO loud and painful.. immersive? Perhaps. Annoying as hell? YES!

I couldn't even cast because I tossed my headphones aside as I scrambled with audio settings.. which apparently have no effect on this particular sound. And so my party kinda died a bit =)

(luckily I was invisible in stealth mode to ambush the enemies, so I eventually killed them headphone-less, and yet my ungrateful party was not appreciative of my effort! :))

[Vengenance]

The lava is ear splitting, I had to remove my ear phones just to be able to play. Either fix it, or give us the option to turn down this effect.

[Strykersz]

There are a number of sounds in the game that play way louder than other comparable sounds. A good example is that spike trap in the west wing of necro.

[Wizzly_Bear]

necro-ed bc it still isnt fixed.

playing fine and then you run by lava in mount reysalon or pop fire room in pop and it blows your ears out unless you mute the sound. pls fix this.

[Deathseeker]

Just what we need, another "Nerf" thread...now we're Nerfing the lava...




And yes, Im kidding and totally agree...the lava sound is horrid...

[EddieB_TBC]

Inside Pop as well...I wasnt expecting it and the poor caster died while i was trying to turn down volume:(
oh yeah inside PoP... my god I couldn't hear voice from the rest of the party for like a minute after we cleared that room... didn't used to be that way. 8(

[Mindspat]

I've only noticed this in one location (Mt Reysalon, near shrine), but by god it's loud!

Prison of the planes fire room.

I have to mute my speakers since the last time sounded as if it was going to blow them!

[Memnir]

When venturing near lava, remember: Safety First.



......http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn12/EnPsyane/osha-ear-protection-required.gif




(but really - tone it down, Devs... it is preposterously loud atm)

[Missing_Minds]

When they made the mail box chime...

and then made it chime LOUDER...

all to annoy plat spammers into leaving the box, what makes you think they'll get around to fixing something that also annoys players who really can NOT turn their volume off?

*grumbles about the sound effects that are way to freaking loud, kind of like lighting traps*

Warning! This game may cause loss of hearing if you wear headphones.

if you haven't guessed, heck yes lower the freaking thing.

[Korvek]

I've noticed that it's relatively loud as well. I tend to keep all my volume sliders at around .15 or .2 regardless, so I can't really imagine what it would be like at 1.00

[Zenix_Leviticus]

Lava, lightning traps, spike traps, and some caves echoing effect seem to be
immune to my volume slider....


Please fix this loud obnoxious sound before my ears begin to bleed.

[Wizzly_Bear]

Lava, lightning traps, spike traps, and some caves echoing effect seem to be
immune to my volume slider.....
they are indeed

[Beherit_Baphomar]

Its not just the lava, the entire games sound is shot...hearing GMs, not hearing GM's, party chat ding working/not working....

Somethings very screwy with the sound.

[Wizzly_Bear]

Its not just the lava, the entire games sound is shot...hearing GMs, not hearing GM's, party chat ding working/not working....

Somethings very screwy with the sound.
screwy i dont care about

so loud it hurts i do

[Wizzly_Bear]

necro-ed bc it still isnt fixed.

playing fine and then you run by lava in mount reysalon or pop fire room in pop and it blows your ears out unless you mute the sound. pls fix this.
..

[Wizzly_Bear]

still not fixed

[Bronko]

still not fixed

There is a Mod coming up some day in the 'near' future. We can only hope this issue will be addressed at that time.

[Retsam]

uh.. quick fix for people until they fix it

in the audio tab, where it says "hardware or software" or so something like that.. just set it to software gets rid of almost all those issues from what ive noticed

in the setings .ini for the game its under..

SoundFeatures=Hardware

just change that to software (or change it in game via the UI)

[vainangel]

I think it has more to do with Normalization of the audio.
Some tracks were obviously created after others in different batches.
Simple fix is to norm all the audio and have us update it in the next mod.

Well Ok...not so simple, but better than messing with the code.

[Fenrisulven6]

It's also tough to keep playing late at night when you've managed to anger your spouse cause they can hear said lava field or cauldera eminating from your headset from 2 rooms away.

Exactly. Turbine, don't forget that some of us [most?] play alot in stealth mode.

I've actually set my alarm for 2am to get up and play without drawing wifey aggro. :rolleyes:

But seriously, couldn't even hear voice chat [headphones] over the lava [speakers]

[branmakmuffin]

Although I've never experienced the loud lava (because none of my characters has ever been to any of the places it's claimed to happen), I find a lot of the sound effects to be too loud. I disable DM narration and music entirely, and set the sound effects and UI sound volumes fairly low.

[Desteria]

It's way too freaking loud.

I work nights, I play on my 'days' off AT 3 am i run past teh laval in mt. R area and WAKE UP HALF THE HOUSE!!!!!!

omg somethign needs to be done about this.

[Wizzly_Bear]

still not fixed

[HumanJHawkins]

It's way too freaking loud.

/signed

[Tanka]

I'm glad I got Elite PoP done already on my Sorc. I never have to go in there again. Stupid lava room.

[Wizzly_Bear]

still not fixed

[Mirta]

You guys approached this all wrong. All you had to do is say that the loud lava noise has a glitch which lets you use an exploit. That way the servers would have gone down immediately and the sound fixed within minutes.

[Gunga-1]

If they fixed it, I think I might actually miss it at this point.

[Inspire]

You guys approached this all wrong. All you had to do is say that the loud lava noise has a glitch which lets you use an exploit. That way the servers would have gone down immediately and the sound fixed within minutes.

Best.

[Pyromaniac]

Ran POP over the weekend - there's no problem getting someone to stand outside the lava room instead of doing the fight inside. And you have to run about 20 feet away so you can hear again and stop the bleeding from your ears.

[gfunk]

Lava sounds are just nuts.. I have all my volumes (dm, sound effects, etc) turned to 0.01 except voice which is at 1.00 and Lava is still painfully loud. I now take my headset off when going through a lava area.

I went for the last month with all sound in the game turned to 0 (except for voice) because I got so annoyed with the sound volume in general (and no, I can't run sound effects on external speakers as it would wake other people up).

Possibly I am doing something wrong with my settings as I haven't spent a lot of time fussing with it to try and get it more balanced (but it seems to be a recurrent problem with many people and it shouldn't have to be difficult). If you have voice set to 100 times that of all other sounds and its still hard to hear people, then something is wrong.

I haven't seen a dev comment concerning any of these sound issues.. if someone can post a link to one I would appreciate it.

[redoubt]

I use a headset exculsively. (Did not even get speakers for my new computer.)

I have voice at 1.00 and everything else at 0.10.

The fire room and lava are too loud. If you want immersion or to make the sound so loud that it blocks other noises for 'effect' do it a different way please.

For example, you could raise the volume slightly, but lower all the other volumes some to make it harder to hear anything besides the lava without making us through our headsets off.

Thanks. :D

[Fourfingers]

I run with all of my volumes (except voice) at .01 and lava is way too loud. I'd like to see Turbine acknowledge this BUG and let us know if they plan to fix it or not. For those of us who run with headphones this is unacceptable. Perhaps it's time to file a lawsuit with results from a hearing test to get some attention to this. This isn't just some cheesy graphics bug.

/signed

[Deathseeker]

Perhaps it's time to file a lawsuit with results from a hearing test to get some attention to this.

Ok, let's not get silly now. The lava noise is ridiculous and should be fixed, but statements like the above are more likely to get these threads ignored than they are to encourage a response. Let's not drown out an otherwise totally valid complaint thread with this type of stuff...

[Wizzly_Bear]

Ok, let's not get silly now. The lava noise is ridiculous and should be fixed, but statements like the above are more likely to get these threads ignored than they are to encourage a response. Let's not drown out an otherwise totally valid complaint thread with this type of stuff...
qft

[Wizzly_Bear]

still not fixed

[Wizzly_Bear]

still not fixed

[sisterjinx]

I tested it the other day. If you are inside POP and are the one who pulls the lever on the fire door, you can run clear to the next room and still all you can hear is the lava. It's crazy

[Memnir]

Disapproving Old Man agrees...


........http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn12/EnPsyane/joe_says.jpg
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[Wizzly_Bear]

Disapproving Old Man agrees...


........http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn12/EnPsyane/joe_says.jpg
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awesome, lol :D

[Samadhi]

/signed

[woundweaver]

turn the s@#t down already!!! it IS annoying, and i cant believe we have to post several pages saying so!! you should have been on top of it a few months ago. just my opinion, of course!! cheers, turbine!!

[woundweaver]

You guys approached this all wrong. All you had to do is say that the loud lava noise has a glitch which lets you use an exploit. That way the servers would have gone down immediately and the sound fixed within minutes.

hahahahahaha, great point!! turbine, we are exploiting the sound to confuse the enemies in the next room. and im using deathpact to live cus the sound is deafening, draining me of hit points!!

[Wizzly_Bear]

still not fixed.

[elldur]

agree with op. fix sound lvl for lava falls in refuge and fire room in pop. can't hear party chat with all that noise

[Wizzly_Bear]

agree with op. fix sound lvl for lava falls in refuge and fire room in pop. can't hear party chat with all that noise
the not hearing party chat i dont really care about. its a minor annoyance at worst, and i could deal with it as flavor. te reason why we cant hear party chat is a whole different problem. excruciatingly loud noise all of a sudden sucks un-washed hairy crusty donkey balls, esp if you are playing on a headset and forget to turn the volume 110% off.

[Justicar]

/signed twenty time over. Very loud and extremely annoying.

[Wizzly_Bear]

still not fixed.

[Kaldaka]

... excruciatingly loud noise all of a sudden sucks un-washed hairy crusty donkey balls ...

LOL wizzly ... that statement just made my day :D

BTW .. are there any washed versions of said balls??? ;)

[Wizzly_Bear]

LOL wizzly ... that statement just made my day :D

BTW .. are there any washed versions of said balls??? ;)
i hear there are some shows down south of the border.... :eek:

[Wizzly_Bear]

still not fixed

[rivnen]

Make lava MUCH quieter, and while your at it electric traps are disproportionally loud as well.

I mean for most of us to hear voice chat NORMALY we need to have all sounds effects a.01 and voice volume maxed, seriously fix the sound turbine.

[Trillea]

/signed!

[Valiance]

It's shameful that this is still unfixed and reflects the general way that Turbine does business.

V

[Wizzly_Bear]

it's been 9 months since i first made this thread complaining about the lava noise. anyone care to wager on how much longer it will be until they fix it?

[Wizzly_Bear]

btw...yet again....tested, and guess what.....still not fixed

[darthuvius]

Don't do it Turbine, for if you do you shall be once again accused of catering to the whiners - you know, similar to the ones who said that the Kobolds in the first quest were too hard and they had a hard time advancing to Stormreach...

/ refused signature

:D

Play on!

lol, I remember dying in the tutorial quest.

[rest]

Sorry I can't hear anyone. The lava is too loud. Try typing in caps?

[Memnir]

I think that all quests with lava in them need to now come with a warning attached...



........http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn12/EnPsyane/ear.jpg

Plaster that warning right under the glowing swirl on the entry door to the quest.



And I'm not just saying that because I and just about every other person with ears who play the game think that the lava is too loud - no, I'm thinking about legal protection for you, Turbine.


From the OSHA Audiology recomendations:
........http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn12/EnPsyane/ear-osha.jpg


Now, I'm not sure if anyone has actually checked the decibel level of the Lava in this game, but I'm pretty sure it would exceed recommended safe limits. If whomever your audio person is is too lazy/incompetent/over-worked (laugh)/ignorant to perform the needed changes themselves - perhaps you can toss the warning sign above to one of your graphics guys and see what they can do about it.

You have the time with the newest Mod 9 delay to do something about it. So do it already.

[MysticRhythms]

In other news ...


... still not fixed

[Caine52184]

\SIGNED!!

PLEASE fix the darn lava already! :|

[Mithran]

I'm just wondering if this has been fixed. Would you please check again, Wizzly?

Edit: For testing purposes, it's ideal to have your headphones' volume turned up as far as it can go.

[Guenalicious]

\signed

[Wizzly_Bear]

seems to finally be fixed. thank you. next time can we get it done a little quicker please?

[JOTMON]

/signed