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[Grey Hook]

The new "Jingle All The Way" warhorn bundle offers a staggering 84 warhorns for $25. That's awesome for pilots who love to customize! Furthermore, they are warhorns that cannot be bought for MC in the store- they are all the Legendary mech warhorns, as well as 10-seasons-worth of Solaris horns. This seems very, very cool.
However, it seems like a person might want to be able to preview what they were getting before parting with 25 actual yankee dollars.
With the colour bundles, one can go into the mechlab and painstakingly hunt them out to see what they look like- a PITA, certainly, but doable.
Is there a similar way to see/hear what these warhorns sound like? I know, we can see the Legendary ones in the webstore, but the important thing is the sound, right?
Am I missing a resource here? Any help is appreciated.

[ThreeStooges]

Pgi use to have a sound cloud account to preview them. I haven't used it in years. Quick google search should bring it up.

[Athom83]

ThreeStooges, on 13 December 2023 - 06:28 PM, said:

Pgi use to have a sound cloud account to preview them. I haven't used it in years. Quick google search should bring it up.

It was last updated 5 years ago with the 2018 Mechcon horn.

[w4ldO]

these sounds should be in the game files?

[Horseman]

Solaris S4 through S10 are the same warhorn. PGI just lazily copy-pasted it just changing one texture showing the season number.

[Athom83]

w4ldO, on 14 December 2023 - 01:52 AM, said:

these sounds should be in the game files?

They're all archived in PAK and stored as FDP and FSB files, which requires FMOD Studio to open and go through.

[Meep Meep]

Tournament supporter pack still has the best warhorns. Not nearly as many of course but you do get lots of other nice stuff.

[Krucilatoz]

Grey Hook, on 13 December 2023 - 04:17 PM, said:

The new "Jingle All The Way" warhorn bundle offers a staggering 84 warhorns for $25. That's awesome for pilots who love to customize! Furthermore, they are warhorns that cannot be bought for MC in the store- they are all the Legendary mech warhorns, as well as 10-seasons-worth of Solaris horns. This seems very, very cool.
However, it seems like a person might want to be able to preview what they were getting before parting with 25 actual yankee dollars.
With the colour bundles, one can go into the mechlab and painstakingly hunt them out to see what they look like- a PITA, certainly, but doable.
Is there a similar way to see/hear what these warhorns sound like? I know, we can see the Legendary ones in the webstore, but the important thing is the sound, right?
Am I missing a resource here? Any help is appreciated.

second to this.
That's tempting offer, I notice when spectating in game I heard several "unfamiliar" / new warhorn, and its interesting. Can my lazy-self get a link to sound preview?

[Grey Hook]

Athom83, on 17 December 2023 - 05:04 PM, said:

They're all archived in PAK and stored as FDP and FSB files, which requires FMOD Studio to open and go through.

Doesn't that seem to be an excessively complex process to expect a potential customer to go through? Vs embedding a button on the website that plays a preview of the animation and sound? Again, I'm not a programmer; maybe I'm asking for the moon.

And I know, this is not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. But insofar as MWO is a free-to-play game (that we still love after all these years), and its continued existence relies on players buying "extras" that add fun and feel without being play-to-win, I think PGI would be wise to invest some time in making the preview and purchase of there extras as easy and appealing as possible.

I want to support the game when I can. But I really struggle buying "sight unseen" (or 'sound unheard?)- especially when users like Horseman say things like "Solaris S4 through S10 are the same warhorn. PGI just lazily copy-pasted it just changing one texture showing the season number." Does this mean they sound the same, or only look (mostly) the same? "hold on, lemme check- oh wait! I can't, until I've already bought them".

[Jormunrek]

Grey Hook, on 13 December 2023 - 04:17 PM, said:

The new "Jingle All The Way" warhorn bundle offers a staggering 84 warhorns for $25. That's awesome for pilots who love to customize! Furthermore, they are warhorns that cannot be bought for MC in the store- they are all the Legendary mech warhorns, as well as 10-seasons-worth of Solaris horns. This seems very, very cool.
However, it seems like a person might want to be able to preview what they were getting before parting with 25 actual yankee dollars.
With the colour bundles, one can go into the mechlab and painstakingly hunt them out to see what they look like- a PITA, certainly, but doable.
Is there a similar way to see/hear what these warhorns sound like? I know, we can see the Legendary ones in the webstore, but the important thing is the sound, right?
Am I missing a resource here? Any help is appreciated.

Just a quick note: they are not "all" of the legendary warhorns. It's missing the two that I actually want. So it's not worth it to me unfortunately...