Wesnoth 1.9.9 wolf sounds

[tekelili]

I use to play wesnoth with music off and sounds on.
Making test on 1.9.9 I discovered that I really dislike wolf-hit-1.ogg and wolf-hit-4.ogg.
I dont know enougth english to describe it, just say they almost make my ears hurt
I was watching a replay with acelerated speed x2 with several wolf riders involved in combat, and had to turn sounds off to stop such a painfull expenrience.

Should I send a request about these sounds or it just happens to me?

[EagleEye]

Yeah maybe a new sound because I also noticed that. (the word your looking for is ear splitting )

[Rigor]

i also dont like the sound of the wolf, it feels like im hurting animals when i defend or kill them. this may not be a problem for others, but i am glad that teke has brought that up. i dont feel too good with this realistic sound of a beaten or sad dog. it would feel much better if he was barking shortly or at least growling when being hit. the same goes for the attack sound. it sounds a bit too feeble in my ears. i mean, its a dangerous wolf with an evil goblin on his back, isnt he?

as for the other changes, good stuff, good job! i liked how you realized the option to shuffle teams a lot and im glad that my idea on github was processed in the end. maybe you know already that the ladder will undergo a big change in the future with a lot of ideas that will enhance the player's game experience. i wanted to ask you for the first time if you considered a cooperation in points of mutual interest, for instance statistics about map/race that could highly increase balance. i imagine it could work with an automatic processing of the replay from the replay server that has a clear information who won or lost the game while playing which faction on what map. of course, for an automatic replay processing there would have to be a function in wesnoth.exe that makes it possible for you to lose/draw during the game with a command or a button, otherwise its an unfinished game that cannot be evaluated (when we actually managed to write a code that can read a victory for one or the other side). i will writer a more detailed github request after positive resonance.

[Pewskeepski]

I use to not like the sounds, but then I got use to them. Personally, I think there are fine the way they are. I mean, they're suppose to sound like dogs getting beat up because they are! (wolves, dogs, whatever) Besides, the sounds are better quality then the ones used in version 1.8 and under.

[averyimaginativename]

I also dislike the wolf sound enough to have removed it from my own installs.

However, it's only wolf-hit-1.ogg that hurts my ears (it literally hurts).

[tekelili]

Oh, can sound files be removed without cause wesnoth crash?

I didnt know it, but in that case I guess my complain have an easy solution for each player taste. I will delete mines.

[Sapient]

I'm surprised you would pick this instead of the dark sorceror's recruit sound.
Personally, I think the wolf hit sounds are great.
I hope no animals were harmed in the recording.

Other sounds that could really use improvement IMO:

1) the lobby join sound

2) the [censored]-a-doodle-doo morning sound


Not as bad but still need improvement:

1) human hit sounds

2) dwarf hit sounds

[Anonymissimus]

Oh, can sound files be removed without cause wesnoth crash? .

You get a warning in stderr...but yes, no crash.

I like the old wolf sounds more, in case there's a poll or something and a chance it gets reverted.

[averyimaginativename]

Oh, can sound files be removed without cause wesnoth crash?

I didnt know it, but in that case I guess my complain have an easy solution for each player taste. I will delete mines.

I replaced it with a different file using the same name. You can also edit the CFGs, but this will (probably) cause OOS in MP (see below).

Personally, I think the wolf hit sounds are great.

I agree with that - they are good, but it doesn't matter how good they are if they give you a headache after hearing them just three or four times. Worth noting, I have a minor hearing disorder. This could be a matter of biology.

[Great_Mage_Atari]

IMO the sound is like a squeaky door or squeaky floorboards. There is also very little distinction in different tones of the wolfs' wimped. If it were just a tad deeper it would sons excellent. at this point it hurts my ears.

[Pentarctagon]

Even if it did cause an OOS in multiplayer, sounds have nothing to do with the actual gameplay, so you could just ignore it and nothing would happen.

[Iris]

I replaced it with a different file using the same name. You can also edit the CFGs, but this will (probably) cause OOS in MP.

Animation-related blocks are ignored for sync purposes.

[HenryPlainview]

I'm surprised you would pick this instead of the dark sorceror's recruit sound.

This is slightly off-topic I guess, but what is the deal with that? Nothing else in the campaigns make a sound when recruiting, it's extremely annoying.

2) dwarf hit sounds

I don't know, I guess they don't really sound like a dwarf being hit, but I like the satisfying THUNK of them.

[Anonymissimus]

I'm surprised you would pick this instead of the dark sorceror's recruit sound.

This is slightly off-topic I guess, but what is the deal with that? Nothing else in the campaigns make a sound when recruiting, it's extremely annoying.

There seems to be an urge among our artists to introduce new fancy stuff (this one, water animations, standing animations) instead of finishing existing ones (spectre attack animation) which complicate the engine, slow it down and introduce bugs and result quickly in a feature request for an option to turn them specifically off. But who am I to tell them that...

[Pentarctagon]

I would agree that the recruit animations are kind of annoying, but the idle/water anims are nice since they break up the unmovingness (can't think of the actual word) of the map. And not that things like the spectre animation shouldn't get done, but really, you don't see spectres very often in wesnoth while you see these animations very frequently.