Audio Feedback Thread

for some reason i was under the impression that it had a 600cc i4 option, based on a motorbike engine. looking back, it is an i3, my mistake.

 

the 6.0l diesel for the D-series doesn't have that grunt that a normal Diesel pickup has. this is from a 7.3l IDI yes, but most diesel pickups sound the same under the same make

 

Ooh, night mode, can't remember any games having that, but that is really useful thing.

 

I imagine getting realistic sound travel is hard. Obviously irl car crashes, straight piped civics, etc, are audible for miles, but you don't want to blow out everyone's speakers to manage that in game. Holding volume drop off for a certain range is probably the best way to manage that. And great work so far, the new reverb and sounds are better than ever.

 

Those old mod would be using sbeam sounds instead of Fmod I believe, then there was even older ones which use only single sample. Mods using Fmod are about 1-2 year old, but would those work fine with more dramatic changes and pre Fmod mods would not work?

 

I feel some pain, it feels horrible

Hopefully you can find solutions that don't require too much running in circles

 

It seems like defaulting to the old car sound engine, and only using the other system if you add a line to the body or something that says "enableAdvancesSamples": true, but I'm not much of a programmer, and that feels like a recipe for conflicts. I have faith you'll figure out something though, you've done great work so far.

 

Well, I think that the development of the game should not be stopped because of some mods.
I, and I think other modders as well, would gladly update our mods in case they break because you add a new feature to the game which improves the game(and therefore our mods to be selfish).
By modding a game like this, you accept the fact that anything can break anytime because of an update.

Of course, mod support is nice but I don't think it should stop you from making the base game

 

I completely agree with you, this game is early access and therefore everything is subject to change.

I think it's well worth sacrificing some mods in order to make some significant improvements. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that the devs always try their hardest to support old mods, but I think in this case it is well worth the change

Plus who still uses old mods that haven't been updated for years anyway?

 

Maybe there could be certain time in future which point it is known that mods using certain older ways will be broken, that could allow time for updating and adapting.

It is not only audio part where support for older mod is making progress difficult, so that brings thoughts that maybe there could be guaranteed breaking point set to future that could allow more progress than trying to prevent mod breaking.

Usually mods still can be partly broken by updates even developers are doing their best to keep support for old ones.

Probably it is not quite that easy though, there often is more variables than one can figure out there being

 

I liked the old Barstow V8 sound better, had more grit and energy which I think was pretty fitting to the car. The new sound is underwhelming and hissy (and I'm not talking about supercharger whine).
Lower revs (<2k RPM) don't have any character and frankly don't sound like an engine with lots of displacement (I'm expecting some blubber and not just push-rod/valve clicking), and higher (>3k RPM) revs aren't as much of a riot anymore as they used to be.
D-Series/Roamer and Grand Marshal now have the same engine sound as the Barstow V8 and while I think it works better for them than the Barstow I'd still like to hear more character out of them, especially in the Grand Marshal.
Hearing these big engined cars produce big sounds was a significant part of the fun of driving them to me and I hope we can get back there with future updates :—)

 

I'm curious as to what the 5.1 support actually is, maybe I just didn't notice the game was stereo before or? The audio wasn't great but I feel like it had more than stereo...
Then again, any time I play a "racing" game with surround I barely notice it since most sound comes from the engine at the front. Only Dirt really makes me notice the surrounds.

 

Hmm, could be. I only ever play "solo."

 

After playing the game it is more noticeable. I just thought it wasn't very good before. Assetto Corsa had "surround sound" support for a long time, but it was absolutely terrible until they figured out how FMOD works.

My only issue now is the game is VERY quiet compared the standard volume level of everything else on my PC.