142 replies to this topic

[percolated1]

All kidding and ribbing aside, my favorite is the Cameron Star. It's pure, simple, and sounds awesome on the battlefield. Pity we couldn't have taken 6 Cameron Star sets.

[Bashfulsalamander]

ThatGuy539, on 12 March 2015 - 09:58 AM, said:

FATALITY!

[LordLosh]

We are so over the board here some like some dislike some think great others horrible. Think it is what it is and move on. Plenty of choices to choose from already

[NocturnalBeast]

Good thing I picked six Marik sets. :-)

[Bluttrunken]

percolated1, on 12 March 2015 - 11:45 AM, said:

All kidding and ribbing aside, my favorite is the Cameron Star. It's pure, simple, and sounds awesome on the battlefield. Pity we couldn't have taken 6 Cameron Star sets.

It reminds me of a ship... but I like it. I can't forget when I made 5 kills in my Jager in ~2 minutes and every time it trumpeted. Such a glorious moment.

[RedDragon]

Lol those sounds are hilariously bad!

[Khaladan42]

Steiner, definitely Steiner.

[Frost Lord]

Tennex, on 11 March 2015 - 03:51 PM, said:

Liao theme needs more gong

needs more cowbell, iv got to have more cowbell.

[Kjudoon]

To be honest things I was hoping for were along the lines of

A big steam whistle

An alpenhorn

Taiko drums

"Silver salute" and fireworks

Dragon dancer cymbals and firecrackers

Huge bells eastern and western styles

Didgeridoo and bull roarer

Tibetan throat singing

'Hanna Barbera' Pterodactyl

Thunder

Gongs

A barbarian hoard roar

A large "royal" brass hit (not jingle or orchestra hit)

Bagpipes


Those are warhorn kind of sounds.

Edited by Kjudoon, 14 March 2015 - 02:24 AM.

[sneeking]

I dread hearing them in game, I will definitely be tempted to alt f4 out and shut those awful sounds out of my life.

Why the hell would I willingly subject my self to that rubbish ?

[Brother Calidus]

I ended up picking my faction content based on skins and colours, unless they redo them these horns certainly wont be in use by me. Kinda glad I picked some of the normal ones, last time they were on sale.

[ScorpionNinja]

I picked 1 of each House Content, as I wanted a bunch of Color/Paints.

I could give 2 shits about any of these warhorns!
All that cockpit junk **** just gets in the way usually anyhow, so I never put that **** in my window Either!!!

Edited by ScorpionNinja, 14 March 2015 - 03:31 PM.

[Dagorlad13]

The Dagger Star warhorn is out in less than three weeks, can we have a preview?

[htsmithium]

Can i have this one?

[Wildstreak]

Davion Horn - Game Show theme
Kurita Horn - starts off Japanese, ends as something else
Liao Horn - Chinese
Marik Horn - Heavy Metal
Rasalhague Horn - Viking
Steiner Horn - Rock

Edited by Wildstreak, 15 March 2015 - 05:33 PM.

[Sevronis]

Steiner horn sounded the best to me. I picked all Steiner, but now I'm second guessing my choice of not getting all the colors. The different skins may have been cool IF I could edit their colors, but seeing as I couldn't edit the Clan faction skins I doubt I could edit these either. Perhaps I won't feel so bad now.

[Dawnstealer]

I got four Steiner, one Davion (FedCom4Lyf), and one FRR because space vikings.

I wish they would have been a little different, though:

Steiner: Bagpipes
FRR: Viking war-horn (an actual, physical horn that is blown through)
Kurita: Taiko drums
Liao: honestly - who cares about Liao?
Marik: dunno
Davion: dunno

Edited by Dawnstealer, 16 March 2015 - 10:08 AM.

[Bloodweaver]

Sevronis, on 16 March 2015 - 06:05 AM, said:

Steiner horn sounded the best to me. I picked all Steiner, but now I'm second guessing my choice of not getting all the colors. The different skins may have been cool IF I could edit their colors, but seeing as I couldn't edit the Clan faction skins I doubt I could edit these either. Perhaps I won't feel so bad now.

NGNG's video previews of the Grasshopper and Zeus (shown on Russ' Twitter) show that you CAN, in fact, change the colors on the faction camos. I was worried about that too.

I'd contact support if I were you, saying you'd like to change your faction selections based on this new information... Of course, they won't even get your request until tomorrow. But it's still worth a shot

Incidentally, the Davion and Steiner patterns are both really good IMO, seeing as you can change the colors on them. I also like the Marik and Liao patterns quite a bit, but not as much as those first two. Kurita's is OK, Rasalhague's is... kinda bleh. I hope they open up these faction patterns for other IS 'mechs soon.

Edited by Bloodweaver, 16 March 2015 - 05:19 PM.

[Kjudoon]

A variant of his would have been far better for FRR



Liao - A big gong based

https://youtu.be/KYNKFJr8bSA?t=29s

Marik - Steam Whistle base



Kurita - Everybody knows Taiko. Just about everybody.



Steiner : Alpenhorn maybe? A minor key 5 second blast of this is probable.



Davion: large bell sounds?



I'd rather have these as basis for sounds instead of what we got.

Edited by Kjudoon, 17 March 2015 - 07:10 AM.

[Bloodweaver]

Kjudoon, on 16 March 2015 - 06:09 PM, said:

Marik - Steam Whistle base

wut
why

Honestly, I can see what PGI was "going for" when designing these. Davion is supposed to be, not just heroic, but bright and sunny - white-knightey, basically. Kurita and Liao are supposed to be reflections of the cultures that inspired those factions. Steiner is supposed to sound "heavy" to go with their strong preference for assaults. Etc.

Problem is you can tell that whoever did these only tapped into the surface level of those concepts. So they sound really, really cheesy. Not only that, but most of them are far too melodic. A warhorn should be no more than two or three notes at the most, it's supposed to be advertising KILL SECURED, not leading up to a song that never gets played. I like Marik's sound best, with Liao in second place, Rasalhague being tolerable, and the rest being crap(Kurita by far being the worst). And what's really puzzling is how much better the results would have been if they had simply made them more simple.

Davion: simple trumpet flourish/fanfare
Steiner: dunno, a lot of people recommending Celtic stuff, although Liao has a strong Scottish element too
Kurita: simple kabuki YOOOO, as many have pointed out. Another option would be the drums, but the first would be cooler
Liao: pretty decent as-is IMO, although you could add a bagpipe drone behind the gong hit.
Marik: the wildcard. You could do American, Indian, Balkan, Byzantine, and a lot of other influences besides. I think it's OK as-is, just not very evocative of the region's ethnic elements (although it does well reflect its gubernal/political elements)

Edited by Bloodweaver, 16 March 2015 - 06:32 PM.