Natural Selection 2 News Update - Friday Update - Build 137 and Sound Montages

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FuzionMonkey

Wow, these sound are great! Just from listening to these I really get the feel of the NS2 atmosphere.

Are the gun sounds from a commercial library or did you make them yourselves?

I think I will miss the old beacon sound though. But if I heard correctly you are re-using a couple of gorge sounds :)

slayer20

Sounds = Mind Blown


The editor has some bugs now though.

When using just about any tool everything goes black.

friedricekid

sounds were TOTALLY awesome.

WarLover

Amazing sound quality.

Cricket

Amazing sounds! I really loved the alien noises, I'm assuming that one kind of squawky-honk in there was a gorge. At least I think that's what a gorge would sound like. Stuff like this gets me so excited to try the game out. Great update!

slayer20

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The gorge makes a noise in the Alpha trailer. I believe it's the same one.

ChuckstarNL

WOW! The sounds are so awesome! My favorite is the alarm sound, it sounds so dramatic without blowing your ears off.

noncomposmentis

Simon looks like the lost twin brother of someone I went to high school with, even down to the headband.

Anyway, sound makes a big difference in games, and I can't wait to hear these in game. The alien attack sounds were really satisfying.

locallyunscene

That distress beacon sound is so frantic I love it. I'll probably freak out the first time I hear it in game.

Also that shotgun blast at the beginning had some meat to it. I hope the feel of the sg matches up.

Pampelmuse

the samples are amazing <3

NeutralX2

Wow, I am really impressed.

Mr. Epic

Effects sound great! I have a comment about the ambient music but would like to know the authors thoughts on the matter. Is there any way I can contact him?

s0k

Kamakazi was definitely the right guy for the job. I'm really impressed. For being new creations, the sounds maintain that classic feel -- what we expect from shooters -- but they have this sense of sharp urgency to them. The sense of urgency you'd expect from an aesthetically dark, fast-paced game like Natural Selection. Artistic consistency throughout a game is really important to me, the different elements need to work together, and I feel like you guys are nailing it.

Anyway, keep up the great work.

nadyli

Amazing stuff, can't wait to hear them in-game.

S_Badguy

Excellent sounding. I really hope there are some good distressful marine death sounds to push immersion further!

Syknik

Great job Kamakazi, if you were closer to Canada, i'd ask you out on a mandate, and talk to you about NS2 and the works. :)

enf0rcer

Oh sound libraries, stalker was so bad for that... what horrible sound effects it had. This on the other hand is great. I love that your (Simon's) printer, CD player, fruit mutilations are going to be in the game. I bet foley stuff is fun to do.. SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER.

It sounded like you used a reversed clip of your own voice (starting at :50 in the alien montage). It didn't sound bad but I think reversed sounds stick out like a sore thumb. Especially when you went to such lengths to modify and synth everything else so well.

also I thought I heard a Tauntaun... :P

1mannARMEE

Great stuff thank you for the update. Nearly feels like old times with the audio casts :)

Atone

As much as I was hoping for a lerk reveal, this is pretty satisfying. Even if you completely fail to deliver on the game play, at least we know it's going to look and sound great. :p

linfosoma

That was so good, sound is so important, and you nailed it.

The only problem is that this doesn't makes the wait any easier :(

WarLover

I almost had a heart attack when i heard the beacon.
Talk about epic.

Slycaster

Literally, that Distress Beacon type sound was eargasmic. So good guys. So good.

aeroripper

Everything sounds awesome. Hopefully there will be a reason to keep the ambient track enabled (for gameplay purposes) after you're used to the sounds. I like how L4D handled this where you know when certain things are coming via the music.

NeoSniper

I really enjoyed all the sounds.

*Ambient Music reminds me a bit of Eric Serra´s score for the Fifth Element (really good score).

*My favorite sound was the Marine new distress beacon. Really looking forward to seeing the weapons animations that go with these sounds.

*My favorite montage was the alien one. I really felt like I could have been deep into alien territory walking by their buildings with aliens running by and attacking.

Triggerman

This is just spot-on!
Eargasm recieved!

remi

These sounds are so intense. I hope the ambient noises aren't too distracting in game (in NS1 I had to turn off music and stuff because it made it too hard to focus on shooting stuff). I love the sounds of the aliens.

The guns, as others have mentioned before, sound a little weak. I think the problem might be that they don't have enough of the bass kick. It's why a lot of them sound so weak.

McRed

That's some really impressive audio, especially the distress beacon. It really provoked a sense of a panic upon hearing it.

Nyf

So. Excellent. I love the sounds of the Kharaa, they sound both disgusting and menacing, which I think its hard to capture both. The sounds of the guns are great, they aren't too realistic but they still sound excellent and I think fit in really well with the environment. I love some of the ambient noises; I can't wait to hear these in game. Nothing is distracting, it just all makes for good background. The alarm at the end of the marines video made me feel an extreme sense of urgency, so that was superbly done.
All in all this just proves how much time and thought is going into all of the aspects of this game; if you use the kind of love used to make the sounds in the rest of the game as well, this is going to be just what I think most of us are hoping it will be.

SentrySteve

I didn't care for the first sound montage (ambient only) but the last two (the player sound effects) were absolutely amazing.

Raza.

Sounds pretty cool.
Did I hear a fade swipe?