stopsound

Kjeldorian Royal Guard 42 · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 2:34 pm Post subject: stopsound

After being cut down time after time coming around corners, I would always wonder just how they knew I was coming.

Could it be that I pull 10 FPS? Maybe. H4X? Well, not always.

See, DOD has a ton of ambient noise. Gunshots, mortar blasts, people screaming, etc etc. None of which is actually happening. Through all of this, it is extremely hard at times to know what is going on and where.

Yet, some people seemed to be able to hear exactly where I was at all times. Then one day Blue showed me this helpful little tip.

While in game, bring down the console and type: stopsound
Or, you can just type it into your config.

This turns off all the ambient noise. All you will hear is actual gameplay events. I use it and now I know how some people would always know where I was. They could hear me! You can hear everything from footsteps to the sound you make when you jump. You can even hear people reloading.

So, to even the playing field for us all, I thought I would post this.

Give it a try and see if it helps you.
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Speaker's Xeno · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 2:49 pm Post subject:

kool thanks for the tip this will help a lot for me

let the creeping begin

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Violent Pacifist · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 2:53 pm Post subject:

Or you could just buy headphones

I don't know if people do it in Dod or not, but some people played with edited sounds in TFC. They might turn explosions down a bit, and make footsteps extremely loud, so that they could here where somebody was.
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Kjeldorian Royal Guard 42 · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 2:58 pm Post subject:

Headphones actually made things worse for me.

It was all the same jumbled noise, just louder. Never tried headphones with stopsound though. . I have a surround sound setup as well and headphones kinda kill that whole experience for me.

That and the fact that my wife would get erged that I wasn't answering her when she was talking to me.

Just between you and me. . . . I heard her fine.

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Paddyjack · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 3:17 pm Post subject:

I use stopsound.... I use headphones....

when I do not use headphones, I don't hear anything coming my way. Furthermore, headphones give you a better sense of the direction of the sounds.

You would be surprised how much I learned to recognized the little "hmmmph" sound when somebody jump an obvious obstacle (for exemple, when jumping to get to the balcony in Avalanche. This IS an very important edge.

The ears is 40% skills in DoD. So use them

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Bada Bing · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 3:28 pm Post subject:

Stevo · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 3:40 pm Post subject:

Shouldn't editing sounds that way be considered cheating?
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Kjeldorian Royal Guard 42 · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 4:21 pm Post subject:

Mike · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 4:54 pm Post subject:

i use the stopsound alot in tfc when im listening to music and the background dosent go good with it
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Violent Pacifist · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 5:07 pm Post subject:

Kjeldorian Royal Guard 42 · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 5:59 pm Post subject:

That's a tough call Stevo.

I know in TFC, some use different sounds (not default) for individual events. I can hear the Canadian national anthem everytime I cap if I want.

Only I would hear it though.

One can only assume that some utilize this ability to "tweak" individual event settings to their fullest in DOD as well.

I would not say it's hacking. I've met people who could hear a fart from 50 yards out but probably couldn't hit a wastebasket with a ball of paper.

I am all stock. stopsound is my "script" lol.
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Paddyjack · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 6:55 pm Post subject:

When 1.0 was out, I used the sounds from 3.1, as I thought they were better. For one, footsteps on floorboards were louder. When Steam was out, my sounds disapeared, and I never bothered to get them again..... so the footsteps are fainter... but I still rack up kills as before....

So I don't think editing these sounds is a big help
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Bada Bing · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 7:49 pm Post subject: