Audio Feedback Thread

I still wish the engine sound for the Inline-6 (which is used for other cars than the ETKs) would be improved. It still sounds low quality & isn't pleasing to listen to if you're driving a car which uses that sound

 

it sounds very electronic, almost robotic. the automation one is so much more enjoyable to use, which is what i usually end up doing

 

I am finding myself avoiding ETK cars because of engine sounds, also new T-series sounds have made me avoid that too, I'm thinking how could I get sounds from some ETS2 mod to BeamNG, but that uses engine load based samples in addition to normal samples, afaik.

Pessima is pretty much which I use that has I4, but that sound too is very artificial.

Of course engine sounds are huge leap forward from single V8 sound, but if one plays Dirt Rally and then BeamNG, ear is not liking, but then again I'm not excepting small indie developer to compete with Codemasters, but obviously this is area where improvements are needed and afaik it is area they are working on.

All good takes time and all that

Sector 3 and Codemasters have quite much better engine sounds though, have not played Forza, but would think that is quite good in sounds department too, games like Just Cause 3 does manage to produce really nice engine sounds, so I guess world has moved forward from simple samples that loop more or less imperfectly to something more advanced and what I have read here is that BeamNG will have better like that too.

There was introduction of 2nd audio source to engine sounds now with 0.15, but I guess current vanilla cars are not using that yet, but work clearly is done.

 

forza sounds are great, just not always accurate. they tend to use the same sounds for many cars that shouldn't sound alike (nissan GTR vs ford raptor). Both turbo V6s, but should obviously have a much different sound than eachother,

 

As for me, the most realistic sound of motors in games that I have heard is in NFS PRO STREET. There it is also implemented as in BEAMNG - the sound of the exhaust and the sound of the engine itself without exhaust. But it sounds pretty realistic, especially at high engine rpm. And the sound of turbines just do chic ..))

 

I did try to record sound from Dirt Rally, kinda hard not to crash when doing stage first time and I have not driven many stages, but they got sounds right. Sounds in that game make it enjoyable though even UI is one of the worst ever and driving is plain weird:


BeamNG is progressing forward though, lot of pieces are at place already.

 

Here is gear whine, on power each gear has own kind of whine, but when coasting it changes less or not at all depending which gear is on:

 

I think that the exhaust after fire should be more of a “pop” or a “bang” than the “boom” that it currently is.

 

Correct, and with suitable ambience systems for reverb etc, those would be realistic too.

 

I haven't played the game for a while and was glad to hear new engine sounds, right direction. However, there was some problems with them playing properly when multiple cars were running at the same time on small area, some sound cuts here and there. Also, sounds without exhaust(s) could have a little more power and rawness to them.

 

I could see them making them more raw, but the might start to sound distorted and low quality the more raw sound you have (automation for example, the really loud ones sound garbage in beam, so you can’t go too loud). I already am pleased with the way they sound, it’s definitely an upgrade. Is the audio lag glitch caused by FPS or are you getting smooth FPS while it’s glitching the audio.