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[XX Sulla XX]

Well the have the new warhorns out and I am not impressed sad to say. I like 90%+ of what PGI is doing now days but the war horns just seemed rushed. Steiner is OK but some of the rest are really bad.
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• Davion - https://t.co/92j6vlrLB0
  
• Kurita - https://t.co/VVYSzAISzt
  
• Liao - https://t.co/IhkHaE7HDy
  
• Marik - https://t.co/X2S6MLABto
  
• FRR - https://t.co/DjYAzCl4zb
  
• Steiner - https://t.co/rmGdDzsBzo

Now here is my argument for making them better. If you spend more time to make them better then people will want them and buy them and in turn the game makes more money. I believe war horns could be amazing if more thought and effort were put into them. But they seem last minute and rushed.


There are so many great options. For example for Steiner maybe Ride of the Valkyries. Its in the public domain. Fits with Steiner. Reminds every one of Apocalypse Now. And is on plenty of Royalty Free music sites.

Edited by XX Sulla XX, 11 March 2015 - 04:19 PM.

[Tarogato]

In my opinion, they're awful. The whole lot of them.

And no... no music. They're supposed to be "war" "horns". They should sound like horns, and they should be fitting for war. Leeway can be given for the fact that this is the 31st century we're talking about here, but still...

These are just too long, too complicated, too musical, too synth. Der Walküren isn't any better.

[Corbenik]

Thank god I dont have an aligment to a house cuz they are all horrible, but maybe the Kurita and Liao arent so bad :X the rest gonna collect dust.

[Redwo1f]

XX Sulla XX, on 11 March 2015 - 04:16 PM, said:

Well the have the new warhorns out and I am not impressed sad to say. I like 90%+ of what PGI is doing now days but the war horns just seemed rushed. Steiner is OK but some of the rest are really bad.
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• Davion - https://t.co/92j6vlrLB0
  
• Kurita - https://t.co/VVYSzAISzt
  
• Liao - https://t.co/IhkHaE7HDy
  
• Marik - https://t.co/X2S6MLABto
  
• FRR - https://t.co/DjYAzCl4zb
  
• Steiner - https://t.co/rmGdDzsBzo

Oh my, really? seriously???? Those are HORRIBLE!!!!!! wow! Music?!?!?!?!?

[Ultimax]

Yeah not impressed with these.

[Johnny Z]

I like all accept Davions.

But I am not getting another warhorn unless they are less annoying in the cockpit visually or there is an option to not show them in the cockpit.

[Vassago Rain]

All bad.

[FupDup]

Johnny Z, on 11 March 2015 - 04:30 PM, said:

I like all accept Davions.

But I am not getting another warhorn unless they are less annoying in the cockpit visually or there is an option to not show them in the cockpit.

The option to not show them is the cockpit is to not equip them.

[RedDevil]

I like all of them except for Kurita and Davion

[Burktross]

Gross....

[Mirumoto Izanami]

Kurita had promise until the 2 second mark...then it has that crappy flourish ending.


Davion..is...who put their Final Fantasy victory music in my Mech?

Marik tries so hard for the 'MURICA feel, but misses wide left.

Liao isn't bad, just lacks oomph.



Davion could also be the sound backdrop for "Davion Mech kills a clanner, News at 11!"

Edited by Mirumoto Izanami, 11 March 2015 - 04:46 PM.

[A big brave boulder of meat]

I'm kinda miffed on why they made all of them musical. They sound kinda tacky to me. I mean, it's not like they sound awful...It's just not what I think off when I think of a war horn.

[TercieI]

Rubbish, the lot.

[Flashbulb]

I think they're alright. Kurita's is a little weak though.

[Alistair Winter]

They're terrible. Like, really, really, really bad.

The whole concept of warhorns in MWO is just flushed down the toilet. It could have been something real cool that would add atmosphere to make the matches feel like real sci-fi battlefields, like the horns in War of the Worlds. Here's what it could have sounded like, if PGI wanted to make warhorns really alien and scary.



Instead, we got all kinds of really silly horns for the Clans (Mexican ice cream truck warhorns) and these Inner Sphere faction warhorns are even lamer. They all sound like "Mission accomplished" melodies for Age of Empires or Starcraft or something like that. Who the hell would play those melodies from speakers on a military vehicle? Like all of House Steiner are Rammstein fans because they're Space Germany?

Seriously, it's hard for me to express how dumb this is. I'm already peeved by the silly clapping monkey and christmas light cockpit items. I used to joke about the silly parrot and ice cream warhorns, but now PGI has taken it a step further. Now we have parrots, ice cream trucks and Age of Empires.

0 / 10

Please let me disable these childish sound effects in Game Options

[Brody319]

I think they are fine.

[EgoSlayer]

Do
Not
Like

We're not driving around the General Lee.

[MandyB]

Kurita sucks, liked the rest

[Scyther]

For me, the Rasalhague and Steiner are maybe-sorta-not terrible. Almost useable.

The rest, you couldn't pay me to use. (Well ok, you could, but it won't be cheap!)

A warhorn should be a very short, impactful, blast of sound... not a musical interlude.

[Ovion]

I'm actually ok with these.
The Liao one is probably the weakest as a warhorn, but I am OK with all of these, and actually like a couple.

These, combined with my Comstar set will go straight in my Locusts.

(to clarify, my general opinion on warhorns, is they are silly, and will even give away your position if unlucky, with many being obnoxious in sound and aesthetic.
There's a couple of exceptions, but generally, apart from I paid for them indirectly and so use them occasionally because of that.
However, every locust I own has permanently had a horn since their release, and I think most if not all Locusts should do the same, simply because if you make a kill in it, the world should know your victims shame, and the warhorn provides salt for the wound. )

Edited by Ovion, 11 March 2015 - 05:33 PM.