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[mekabuser]

Idk where to put this.
BUt , what happened to the robot music at end of round>?
It was perhaps , if intentional, one of the more creative things I thought PGI had done.
Yet now its gone.

Random stereo robot noise, almost musical, I thought it was brilliant.. It was stark, the evocation you want at the end of a battle . Now its gone.

Was this sound fx intentional>?
why was it removed?

Did you like it?

[oldradagast]

I vaguely remember it - it was kind of cool.

The game has no music at all now, which is unfortunate.

[OneEyed Jack]

It wasn't music, just a random noise bug, and it was annoying as hell. It was about as evocative as listening to an old dial-up modem connecting.

[Mercules]

OneEyed Jack, on 21 November 2013 - 02:07 PM, said:

It wasn't music, just a random noise bug, and it was annoying as hell. It was about as evocative as listening to an old dial-up modem connecting.

Ehem... as Tech Support for an ISP during that era... I miss the reassuring sound of a modem handshake. I used to be able to tell the chipset of the modem from the type of handshake it did.

[Roadbeer]

Mercules, on 21 November 2013 - 02:11 PM, said:

Ehem... as Tech Support for an ISP during that era... I miss the reassuring sound of a modem handshake. I used to be able to tell the chipset of the modem from the type of handshake it did.

This won't make sense to people who've never said the word "Baud", once in their lives.

[OneEyed Jack]

Well I, for one, don't miss the the ear-piercing shrill, and even you can;t claim it was music.

The EoR noise felt to me like punishment for wanting to actually take time to look at the stats.

[DoktorVivi]

Mercules, on 21 November 2013 - 02:11 PM, said:

Ehem... as Tech Support for an ISP during that era... I miss the reassuring sound of a modem handshake. I used to be able to tell the chipset of the modem from the type of handshake it did.

I kinda miss that sound too. Had an old 14,4 when everybody else was on 56k. Man that was slow, heh.

[DaZur]

Mercules, on 21 November 2013 - 02:11 PM, said:

Ehem... as Tech Support for an ISP during that era... I miss the reassuring sound of a modem handshake. I used to be able to tell the chipset of the modem from the type of handshake it did.

Sigh... the days of tweaking ones modem initialization string. For me it's a bit of nostalgia like squeezing that extra 3k from your DOS upper memory allocation so you could run Falcon 4.0 in all it's glorious spender...

Let's see how many of these young bucks know what VESA is /was (without Googling it)

[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

This game had musik>?

[Zyllos]

Roadbeer, on 21 November 2013 - 02:13 PM, said:

This won't make sense to people who've never said the word "Baud", once in their lives.

Heh...

[Roadbeer]

DaZur, on 21 November 2013 - 02:34 PM, said:

Let's see how many of these young bucks know what VESA is /was (without Googling it)

LOAD "*",8,1

[Mercules]

DoktorVivi, on 21 November 2013 - 02:23 PM, said:

I kinda miss that sound too. Had an old 14,4 when everybody else was on 56k. Man that was slow, heh.

I was mad when the TEN network forced me to upgrade to one of the new and expensive 28.8 modems that just came out to continue to play DukeNukem online. I remember when we figured out how you could get the mighty foot going with both legs and we ran around killing people like that. Then I got up to 56k and started to play Unreal online with people and at LAN parties. I miss LAN parties.

Now everything is through Steam or needs to check online to verify the installation so LAN parties require having some bandwidth to do properly and it just isn't as easy to throw one together in a couple short weeks like you used to.

[Troutmonkey]

Mercules, on 21 November 2013 - 03:12 PM, said:

I miss LAN parties.

Me too, not enough games with LAN these days. If feels like CoD4 was the last "big" game with LAN support and it saddens me. I'd love to play something like BF3 or StarCraft LAN but alas, we've gone off topic

[Clit Beastwood]

DoktorVivi, on 21 November 2013 - 02:23 PM, said:

I kinda miss that sound too. Had an old 14,4 when everybody else was on 56k. Man that was slow, heh.

lol I started with a 300 baud you had to sit the phone receiver on

[Novakaine]

Wut?
I'm still using my modem.

[Krazy Kat]

Roadbeer, on 21 November 2013 - 03:03 PM, said:

LOAD "*",8,1

Now That brings back memories. 64k memories.

[Clit Beastwood]

OP's gonna check back and be all "WTF are they talking about?"

[NautilusCommand]

Why doesn't PGI add music? Because they are too busy making things you spend money on huh, who would have known?

[mekabuser]

if that was a random noise bug,we should be so lucky.
it sounded nothing like a modem or fax as it was several octaves deeper.
sounded more like robot morse code than anything i guess which, considering its 1000 years in the future, who tf knows what theyll listen to then.

it was random, in meter,stereo and volume.
It reminded me of old school sci fi .. like generator sounds etc. OLD sci fi.
some ,most of the rythyms were interesting.

Sry, i thought it was brilliant.

Edited by mekabuser, 21 November 2013 - 09:52 PM.

[xengk]

OneEyed Jack, on 21 November 2013 - 02:07 PM, said:

It wasn't music, just a random noise bug, and it was annoying as hell. It was about as evocative as listening to an old dial-up modem connecting.

That is the same opinion I hold for Dubstep too.

I miss the sound of dial-up modem, it is like a bat signal to let's get dangerous.