53 replies to this topic

[Nesutizale]

Can we have a countdown sound...bout 5 seconds before a match starts?
Maybe then we can have all people alt-tab back into the match before it starts instead of when its nearly over.

[FupDup]

The MWO icon on my taskbar flashes both when voting starts and when the map has loaded.

[Nesutizale]

Yah and after voting and loading you still have 30-60 seconds time and it seams lots of people alt-tab out and when someone with voip calls people to wake up they move. So an automatic sound would be helpfull.

[JediPanther]

The sounds of their mech getting shot should be good enough unless they are deaf in which case we can add a "MOVE OR DIE!" flashing indicator just by replacing the "INCOMING MISSILE" warning text and making the trigger to their mech taking damage within the first two minutes of a match. It should take pgi only a year to do once they get their intern on it.

[InfinityBall]

JediPanther, on 23 March 2019 - 01:29 PM, said:

The sounds of their mech getting shot should be good enough unless they are deaf in which case we can add a "MOVE OR DIE!" flashing indicator just by replacing the "INCOMING MISSILE" warning text and making the trigger to their mech taking damage within the first two minutes of a match. It should take pgi only a year to do once they get their intern on it.

Sounds other than voice don't come through when you're alt-tabbed out. At least for me.

[Prototelis]

There should be an automatic penalty to people who don't start moving in the first 10-15 seconds

Double penalty if its a slow assault.

[Angel of Annihilation]

InfinityBall, on 23 March 2019 - 01:46 PM, said:

Sounds other than voice don't come through when you're alt-tabbed out. At least for me.

Same for me. Someone with a Mic has to wake up the sleepyheads.

[Nesutizale]

So if voip is comming through then there is a way to get other sounds to be played too.
I think it might be enough when the "bootup" sounds would be played. "Reactor systems online, all systems nominal" should be enough of a hint to get people into the game.

[VonBruinwald]

InfinityBall, on 23 March 2019 - 01:46 PM, said:

Sounds other than voice don't come through when you're alt-tabbed out. At least for me.

Angel of Annihilation, on 23 March 2019 - 03:13 PM, said:

Same for me. Someone with a Mic has to wake up the sleepyheads.

There's a setting you can put the user.cfg to enable sound when you're tabbed out, can't remember what it is for the life of me though (anyone got a link to all the settings handy).

I like to toggle the Lance<->Company command option to alert any afks who aren't watching the game. It also enrages certain types of players which makes them play more aggressively and push the enemy position, something they tend to avoid doing.

[ChapeL]

That's the only reason I keep the game music on! The guitar riffs as the drop starts are my warning

[VonBruinwald]

VonBruinwald, on 23 March 2019 - 03:47 PM, said:

There's a setting you can put the user.cfg to enable sound when you're tabbed out

Found it:

s_NoFocusVolume = 1

[KrazedOmega]

Or people could, you know, just have an ounce of patience and focus on the thing they're supposed to be playing and not be distracted by other shiny things.

[Kynesis]

This is a prime example of why I won't buy MW5 - if they don't have the competence to make a setting like this available in a six year old game, the suggestion that they can accomplish anything more complex is pure comedy.

[Mazen Drakhov]

This is a really good idea, and a suitable alternative to the verbal wakeup call i have to give like 40% of the matches I play.

[crazytimes]

"Wakey wakey hands off snakey" on comms is good.

[Koniving]

FupDup, on 23 March 2019 - 01:00 PM, said:

The MWO icon on my taskbar flashes both when voting starts and when the map has loaded.

I admit mine only does this occasionally, and even then only when the voting starts... I usually don't give a crap til the match has started... but then sometimes I forgot I even queued a drop.

[Nesutizale]

ChapeL, on 23 March 2019 - 04:01 PM, said:

That's the only reason I keep the game music on! The guitar riffs as the drop starts are my warning

What there is music in the game? I never noticed....*goes looking at his settings*

Edited by Nesutizale, 24 March 2019 - 03:58 AM.

[Prototelis]

Kynesis, on 23 March 2019 - 05:55 PM, said:

This is a prime example of why I won't buy MW5 - if they don't have the competence to make a setting like this available in a six year old game, the suggestion that they can accomplish anything more complex is pure comedy.

There isn't a list of standard options that should be available in all games. Many games don't have this option, some even have it on by default and it can't be turned off.

[Lily from animove]

If the game could detect one being alt tabbed we could have the angry clansman saying some funny angry things.

[IshanDeston]

I would prefer not to be punished for people being impatient and alt tabbing with having noises blare at me. If such a feature is implemented, please let me turn it off in the options.