Making Ns Scary...

Haze · February 2004

<div class="IPBDescription">Can anyone help?</div> Would anyone know some good sound effects that make NS spook you out? I'm looking for things like screams in the backround that make you uneasy as you walk down the hallway...

Can anyone help?

EDIT:: Things like random screams, gunshots, agonizing screams, monster sounds, boards creaking, more gunshots and screams replacing the music.

Daza4 · February 2004

lower your gamma <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

RPG_Jssmfulhud · February 2004

And the random stuff would have to be implemented into a map itself, just so you know...

S-ocker · February 2004

yep ... i wish natural selection was scary but i think that the hl engine doenst let the mod to me scary <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' />

BloodySloth · February 2004

that's.. wrong. half life doesnt have a feature that says "no scariness"

Haze · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (RPG_Jssmfulhud @ Feb 21 2004, 06:08 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> And the random stuff would have to be implemented into a map itself, just so you know...  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
No. Just make the music files that loop (once fixed properly) play screams, gunshots, growls, and other things evenly spaced out along a one minute frame. Its that easy.

RPG_Jssmfulhud · February 2004

It would start repeating... Don't you think? Hm...

Spetsnaz · February 2004

errr well there is sum AVP sound packs etc, sum decent scary sounds etc...

or get sum new Alien (the movie) models, i pooped my self wen i played with them, i cant even install AvP2 on my puter now, have to get a m8 to hold my hand when i play lol

Drfuzzy · February 2004

use doom3 sounds

when it comes out <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

Warfare · February 2004

brightness 0
gamma 2

You might want to use brightness 1, and gamma 3, since your weapon will become black if you enter a shadow, not just darkened as if a shadow was crossing you.

As for sounds, I can only suggest downloading a pack or something. I think Marxx' sound pack got some scary ambience.

Dark_Soul · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Shocker @ Feb 21 2004, 06:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>yep ... i wish natural selection was scary but i think that the hl engine doenst let the mod to me scary <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
"NS is first contact, NS2 will be the war..."

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DR_FUZZY @ Feb 21 2004, 07:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>use doom3 sounds</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
i was gonna say the same thing, it has some freaky screaming sounds and stuff, pretty scary

speaking of scary, check the <a href='http://www.sh2004.com/' target='_blank'>Silent Hill 4 Trailer</a> OMG !!! scary <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' />

Necrosis · February 2004

turn gamma down, play in darkened room, change all the sounds to freaky stuff.

One time in lunixmonster the server played the aaaagh! scientist scream at the exact moment a player walked into an onos, and the player freaked out and paused long enough to get eaten. He blamed the sound for spooking him.

Sounds I could suggest are that scream, the hunter leap noise from RE instead of blink (mm, as if fades didn't freak people out already).

Change the digestion sprite to something more disturbing. That WILL freak you out when it suddenly appears.

Also play against better players, and rambo constantly. At the very least it should get your blood pumping.

Daza4 · February 2004

Someone needs to convert those screaming sounds on the ship from Unreal. I really love that .

Haze · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (RPG_Jssmfulhud @ Feb 21 2004, 06:53 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> It would start repeating... Don't you think? Hm...  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
You wouldnt realize it by the time five different songs (the songs that have been replaced by the screams and gunshots) have gone through their cycle.

Necrosis · February 2004

I think it might be more fun to alter the environmental effects as opposed to the backing music.

Nothing more unnerving then going down a corridor and instead of a sudden whoosh of steam you hear AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

-Drake- · February 2004

turn down ur volume :] so u dont hear a skulk till he about to kill u :]

Fire_Eel · February 2004

Low Light
Low Gamma

Scary music in the background

Blinking lights
Sudden bursting pipes whenever you go near

Screams and ear-piercing shrieks played in the background randomly

Blood and gory remains of marines found through out the map
Map features like a dead marine impaled through a pole
Marine heads, when you look closely, cockroaches would swarm out from the mouth

Haze · February 2004

We're talking about what we can do to the current NS here man. Not make a whole new map.

Shinzon · February 2004

well i rember chaing all the modles sounds and etc to alien vs predator models WHOLY $*** when u see onee of em jumping form wall to wall that really makes u **** ur pants... and theyre coloured dark so u cant really see em until its too late... and thats just a skulk... Fades? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' />

That made me phear one map real bad... trhen i changed everything to SC and everything was... Not scary but FUN u feel like ur gonna beat the crap outta things <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /> especialy with that avp lmg replacemnt gun it kinda sounds like a marine rifle...

Quietstorm · February 2004

I'm currently working on a map thats trying to incorporate these ideas, here's the primary lay out right now...Long dark corridors, with lights spaced out far apart, most rooms aren't lit very well, Marine Start will be the only brightly lit part of the map giving a "false sense of security" to newbie players, there will be plenty of Vents so Marines will hear plenty of skulks rushing silently behind them, I'm looking for sounds now, I'm definitely adding loud screams and screeches. I might take those Doom ideas though <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /> However I'm in need of Corpses...slashed up Marines, Marine heads...Hell even Civilians bodies would be nice...anyone have anything I can use is Greatly appreciated!!! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/turret.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='turret.gif' /> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif' />

Hitman047 · February 2004

Either people will never go marine on the map in order to NOT sh*t their pants, or they will ALWAYS go marine in order to get the utter crap scared out of them for sh*ts and giggles. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

However, if you download my Alien pack, hosted tomorrow sometime, I assure you a least 20% - 25% scarier surroundings (because it also includes sounds <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />).

Quietstorm · February 2004

Oh I failed to mention before, this will be a ns_ map, its no fun if its "fast paced" in CO...so while your trying to build a Res in one of the many darkened corridors you'll be stopping every second to take a peek down the hallway. I'm also thinking flickering lights and some type of groaning metal sounds...How's that getting better? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

smite88 · February 2004

just dig around in your hl sounds i remember planty of times when u would see a sciencist screem while being eatn or gunts being ****d up by aliens

Gliss · February 2004

The metal groaning sound in ns_ayumi and ns_metal is rather scary. First time I heard it, I jumped about 3 feet up <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

CoolCookieCooks · February 2004

the first map that ever scared me was the ns bast thing, where you walked thru that lil doorway to the big open hive, and one of the gas things explode behind you, with surroundsound and very loud, that can make any man soil himself.

S-ocker · February 2004

when i heard the steam sound that sounds like a wolf ... omg really scary

Griff-512 · February 2004

"NS is first contact, NS2 will be the war..."
Do you know how awesome that sounds..... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif' /> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tiny.gif' />

twiliteblue · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (-=[Drake]=- @ Feb 22 2004, 11:58 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> turn down ur volume :] so u dont hear a skulk till he about to kill u :]  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Actually, I find it less scary to play avp2 without sound, as I just frag away (or click on?) pixels that resemble any threat. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />
So I have to say it <b><i>is</i></b> the sound effects (including music) and sudden movements.

blue2k · February 2004

nice idea, but ive always though ns seemed a little too sanitised for me, what with the lack of blood without the aid of server plugins etc. to create true suspense the player must belive they are actually in mortal danger, this in psychological terms is called "suspension of disbelief" and ns lacks that in abundance.

Tykjen · February 2004

i gotta say ive never played any mod thats more atmospheric than ns. and if anyone does know, pls let me kno

Smiley_X · February 2004

You really wanna make NS scare the crap out of you every 15 seconds??? Just replace all NS music with the bite.wav. EVERY FIVE SECONDS YOU HEAR IT REALLY LOUD! OMG IS THATA SKULK BEHIND ME!? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

/me runs screaming form room...

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