Impact sounds too loud?

[[F.Circus]Gorn_Captain]

Has anyone else noticed very recently that when landing hits on an enemy (aircraft or ground target like AA gun) that the impact sound is loud enough that it sounds like your own plane being hit? Even from 200 odd metres out. Mainly when hitting the tail. It's been giving me a bit of a scare past few days.

 

Quick video from last night where you can hear it: 

(don't mind the comms chatter, was flying with a fresh-faced greenhorn and she got me and the D7 mixed up, there was nobody shooting me to explain the hit sounds) 

[No.23_Gaylion]

Yes it's weird and this used to be a bug when FC first started out.

 

Perhaps it's back?

[Cynic_Al]

A couple of nights ago I noticed it had become possible to hear other nearby planes crashing into the ground.  There comes a point one no longer bothers to mention such things.

[Feathered_IV]

The sound of your bullets hitting the enemy like it’s your own aircraft has been there longer than I can remember.  I don’t think it is a new bug at all. 

[vangel]

It's a lot louder after the last update. Unrealistically loud, like a distinct headshot sound in shooters. Someone thought the player needs an audio feedback on hits. Because this is an arcade flight game like Warthunder.

[RNAS10_Oliver]

It’s something I’ve heard in QB for quite some time. Just seemed to be missing from MP to me.

[US103_Baer]

Definitely seems more distinct to me lately too, and I fly with game vol pretty soft. 

Edited December 19, 2021 by US28_Baer

[SeaW0lf]

On 12/17/2021 at 7:08 PM, Feathered_IV said:

The sound of your bullets hitting the enemy like it’s your own aircraft has been there longer than I can remember.  I don’t think it is a new bug at all. 

 

At least until 2020 we had no problems with these loud tinny / planky sounds. Perhaps once in an update in 2018? But it was fixed? But I don't recall that it was a lingering problem. The way it is now is bad.

 

 

And I do have this video in QM from after the 2020 DM update, so there were no planky sounds back then as well. Or perhaps this was a localized problem back then?

 

 

Edited December 19, 2021 by SeaW0lf

[[F.Circus]Gorn_Captain]

Found a video on my harddrive from about 2 weeks ago and there's no impact sounds there, so seems like a bug added in the latest patch
 

 

[Cynic_Al]

2 hours ago, [F.Circus]Gorn_Captain said:

so seems like a bug added in the latest patch

 

So will it be fixed or will it just become a feature? 

 

I suppose I'll have to report it, just as soon as I find a way to get a sound clip into a screenshot.

[Zooropa_Fly]

IRL I wouldn't expect to hear anything - considering wind and engine noise.

[SeaW0lf]

Perhaps not from bullet hits, but they could hear some things.

 

I would not mind to hear some shell blasts, engine roars, but the tinny / planky sounds of bullet hits are an annoyance, because it makes the planes look like toys, disproportional in size and material, arcadish. I would not mind to hear bullet hits up close, but not that loud. They just need to find a balance. The cracking noise the fuselage makes is not good as well. It feels like I’m in a flying a dry wine cork of sorts (lol). These things are fundamental for ambience and atmosphere.

 

Meanwhile Scott continued on our southward track, and the five of us were alone in the sky, five machines seemingly a single organism suspended in space (...) Our celestial little world was without noise too, for the roar of an engine was the normal, noticed only when it faltered or stopped in shattering silence. The only sounds that might impinge on our seclusion would be the crackle of bullets or the crash of bursting archie shells. Even my engine, though still running unevenly compared with the usual smooth purr of the Le Rhône, did not vary in its note, and so long as this song continued unchanged, I might not have to worry unduly.

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The second happened during a dive attack on a nest of machine-guns, when, above the roar of the engine and the rattle of my guns, I heard an extraordinary noise, a loud twang. I had no idea what it was until, on the way home, I noticed the two ends of one of my flying wires flapping loose. It had been severed by a bullet, but fortunately the duplicated wire held.

Lee, Arthur Gould. Open Cockpit. 

 

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For us the battle passes in silence, the noise of one's motor deadening all other sounds. In the green patches behind the brown belt myriads of tiny flashes tell where the guns are hidden; and those flashes, and the smoke of bursting shells, are all we see of the fighting. It is a weird combination of stillness and havoc, the Verdun conflict viewed from the sky.

 

McConnell, James R.. FLYING FOR FRANCE. 

 

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In the present instance everything went off well for them, as they did not seem to be within range of many active machine guns, but it was difficult to know when they were being shot at, for engine noise drowned the rattle of a machine gun more than a hundred yards away, and tracer bullets were not always used.

 

YEATES, V M. Winged Victory. 

[BlitzPig_EL]

As anyone that has worked in the pits, pulling targets at a long range rifle match can attest, rifle bullets (7.62mm or even 5.56mm) passing overhead at supersonic speeds make a very distinctive snapping crack sound.  It definitely gets your attention. My experience was at the 600 yard line.  Now, could you hear that over the roar of a 100mph (give or take) wind, and the noise of your engine as a bullet passed by?  Maybe, if it was close to your head.  Could you hear it if the rounds were impacting the tail of your aircraft?  I doubt it.  You might feel it, but hear it?  Doubtful at best.

 

You certainly would not hear your rounds hitting another aircraft.

Edited December 22, 2021 by BlitzPig_EL

[Todt_Von_Oben]

On 12/17/2021 at 9:40 AM, [F.Circus]Gorn_Captain said:

Has anyone else noticed very recently that when landing hits on an enemy (aircraft or ground target like AA gun) that the impact sound is loud enough that it sounds like your own plane being hit? Even from 200 odd metres out. Mainly when hitting the tail. It's been giving me a bit of a scare past few days.

 

(don't mind the comms chatter, was flying with a fresh-faced greenhorn and she got me and the D7 mixed up, there was nobody shooting me to explain the hit sounds) 

 

Yep.  I have my doubts about whether or not you'd hear it at all; over the sound of your guns, engine, propblast, and relative wind.  

 

When up really close, it does add an exciting-if-arcade quality to the combat; but it was noticeably unusual the first time I hit him from 200 meters and point blank and it all sounded the same. 

 

Maybe a volume to distance adjustment?

 

ADDIT:  I'm also hearing the sounds of enemy plane parts (wings) hitting the ground from 300 meters AGL and it's loud.  I flew many open-cabin airplanes (no doors) hauling skydivers and airdropped seabags filled with supplies to snowed-in American Indian encampments from 500' AGL; and from that experience I have to say there's absolutely no way you'd hear junk hitting the ground from any appreciable altitude.  You might see some

indication of an impact but the sound of the engine and the relative wind are going to drown out anything you might hear.

 

Plus, now these old crates come down vertically and bounce sideways 100 meters or so.  They can even be coming down headed, say,  north and bounce south.  Not complaining but it does seem unusual.  

 

 

Edited January 2, 2022 by Todt_Von_Oben