81 replies to this topic

[Bilskirnir_]

When it comes to putting a loud speak loud enough to make my enemies hear it over my AC10, i say no... I would rather have another laser please!

[Orzorn]

DigitalStef, on 04 January 2012 - 08:57 PM, said:

When it comes to putting a loud speak loud enough to make my enemies hear it over my AC10

[Androclese]

Cementblade, on 12 December 2011 - 05:27 PM, said:

hey guys i was wondering if you would like to have a mp3 in a mech in which you upload music etc whatever.

We plan on installing keggerators, so wiring up the cockpit for sound isn't all that difficult.

Sure, I'm in for it.

[Thom Frankfurt]

Phalen Ward, on 12 December 2011 - 06:46 PM, said:

@Faceman Peck: its not realy an origional idea, if you ever read the old books there is a little merc company called Snord's Irregulars, and the leader Rhonda Snord was kicked out of the Clans due to a disagreement about "rock and roll." So she started a Merc Company, and rides round in a bright pink Highlander with speakers on the outside.

http://www.sarna.net...dersEdition.jpg

And she LOVES Elvis. Her mech does have 'TCB' painted on it

[Xyph3r]

although there are several mechwarriors in the books that have used their External Speakers for this, or even mounted additional ones,
this should not be an option. it´d be just "food for the Trolls". (and i think there´ll be enough they can troll with)
so:
In-Mech MP3 - yes, please!
Outside - well, no.

although i´d have fun annoying my enemies with things like the Nyan Cat song or something like that, but that´d only last a few matches.
so i rather annoy my Teammates by singing along with my music while Teamspeak is set to voice activation instead

Edited by Xyph3r, 15 April 2012 - 03:43 PM.

[Rutok]

Really guys? Integrated music players?

I shure hope they stay as far away from stuff like that as possible. As cool as it might sound at the start: the music business is a legal minefield (adding to the legal minefield that seems to be battletech..)

If they would allow for uploading your "own" music they would be shut down faster than you can say napster.
If they only allow some sort of control scheme to play music on your computer: how could they know that you have not downloaded this music illegaly? If they wouldnt make shure they may also be held accountable.

I seriously hope the only music in this game is:

1. made by the devs themselves
2. on their own instruments
3. that they invented themselves (with no resemblance to any other instruments today to avoid legal issues)
4. has not been influenced by any music from the last 300 years (just to be on the safe side).

When it comes to music and law, much like quantum physics, the question seems not to be if its crazy.. but if its crazy ENOUGH.

[TeaL3af]

No. If you want music for yourself, just play it on the desktop. If you want other people to hear it, then I can imagine so many people spamming annoying garbage all over the place.

[Runz]

I haven't read this whole topic because there are 4 pages and looking through the first two pages people are jumping to some crazy conclusions regarding the OPs suggestion.

1. You wouldn't need to 'upload' any music, it wouldn't hog any bandwidth, it would play off your local music folder (or folder you specified).

2. You would NOT be subjected to other players' weird and wonderful choices of music. This is MWO not Croyden, you aren't going to get mechs cruising around with their cockpits open and some heavy drum and bass blasting out. Where did people dream up this stuff?

3. I would imagine it would be entirely optional and PGI would most likely have their own musical scores for the game to create the right atmosphere and engage players.

4. The argument that you could just open iTunes in the background is entirely logical, can't fault it. You could also have a radio or CD player. Personally I like to play in fullscreen mode, I don't like having other unnecessary programs running in the background and I tend to jump around my music library a lot - yeah you can use playlists but even then I can get bored of the playlist. If I had a MP3 system incorporated and rooted to my music library I could pick and choose music as I pleased with no alt-tabbing. Also, I'm too lazy to get up and change CDs

Similar things have already been done in games like EVE Online and it works extremely well (although you do have to drop the music directly into EVE's music folder but if you've ever spent a significant amount of time mining asteroids you know you really NEED that MP3 player, it's a god send for long flights). Hell in EVE there's even a built in web browser (not suggesting that here) and can stream EVE Radio/podcasts.

I'm not saying all this is a must, I'm sure PGI is very busy making sure the game mechanics are spot on so we have fun blasting each other etc, but it would be a nice and feasible feature - it just depends on how much coding time it would take to incorporate it. I wouldn't want them devoting time on this when there might be more pressing things to do. It's a nice to have, not a must have.

[Naberius]

MuffinTop, on 23 December 2011 - 08:14 AM, said:

Yeah I'm on board with Tweaks, J Echo,Hangfire and others. I don't wanna hear your Drake or Eminem garbage and you kids don't wanna hear my AC/DC or Danzig. Savvy?

I don't know, coordinated Highway to Hell would be awesome. I'm like most other people and can only vaguely remember one Danzig song though, could we comprimise on Dio? Or Brocas Helm or KMFDM.

Seriously though, does no one else remember Battlefield Vietnam allowing you to play music out of any vehicle you hopped into? There was something magical about doing Napalm Runs to "War" by Edwin Starr when the enemy team would look to the sky trying to find the source of the music. Then again, it only worked on the music already in the game, so meh.

Seriously though, it needs to be an item you can buy to decorate your cockpit. I want random things stuck to bare bits of metal, I want to paint the alpha strike button bright red with a bullseye. I want the eject button to be changed to read something more vulgar. Not that it matters since it wouldn't fly, but I would totally drop an SRM-6 from a Stalker or the SRM-4 from the Jenner for a massive speaker. It would probably be safer to drive anyway.

[Goldhawk]

Cyber Carns, on 12 December 2011 - 10:31 PM, said:

LOL, or Playing Teletubbies or Barney.

Dear God, if I hear the Barney song and see a big purple Atlas coming toward me... I'm just gonna scrap him until the music stops playing.

[ChickenBoss]

I think it'd be pretty sweet if they had a little screen in your cockpit that swung down, let you pick a song, then goes back up so you can go back to blowin stuff up.

[Mr MEAN]

The Music of My Guns
Plays Across Your Armour
Staccato Pounding Rhythm
A Crescendo of Your Destruction
'Cause Thats MEAN

[Mason Grimm]

Mr MEAN, on 16 April 2012 - 09:32 AM, said:

The Music of My Guns
Plays Across Your Armour
Staccato Pounding Rhythm
A Crescendo of Your Destruction
'Cause Thats MEAN

Tisk tisk tisk. I wasn't kidding.

[Stormeris]

Imported music+original soundtracks please

[MechRaccoon]

While the idea of listening to Take On Me by A-ha while blasting the crap out of your opponents is awesome, at the same time, it would be epic it if the guy who did MechWarrior 2's music came back to do the score for this game. I dunno. Both ideas are good.

[Armored Yokai]

edited it cause come of you guys don't understand

[Mechwarrior Of Rock]

No matter what happens i`m listening to Skillet, RED and 12 Stones. Maybe even some Nine Lashes or Switchfoot :-D

[Cutsman]

This would be an awesome feature but I'm not sure how this works in regards to potential licensing problems and what not.

Orzorn, on 04 January 2012 - 10:10 PM, said:

http://i238.photobuc...n/WUBWUBWUB.png

Wubstep?

Edited by Cutsman, 16 April 2012 - 10:52 AM.

[Philipe von Rohrs]

Didnt there used to be a "Portable Music Player" in the kit for players in Mechwarrior Roleplay?.

(Yes, I went there)

So it should be available in game methinks.

Up to the Devs, mind. Else I'll just have my own music on summat else.

[Samuel Maxwell]

The Devs, even if they do implement this, won't support all playable formats. I often listen to music in .flac or .ogg, anyway so I'll be at the short end of the stick if they add this "feature". But really, why is this necessary anyway? It's about as immersive as having a boombox or a music player on your desktop.