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Tick sound on chat message #31

Open Trainzack opened 1 year ago

Trainzack commented 1 year ago

When you receive a chat message, a subtle tick sound should play.

Trainzack commented 1 year ago

I'm second-guessing this decision. This seems to be trivially easy to do by adding another event to the WBP_LocalChatMessage blueprint as seen here: image However, I misremembered how this was implemented in srcpires and other games. I thought srcpires plays a tick sound on every message, but it seems that only important server messages get the tick. We might want to consider this more carefully. It might even be prudent to decide whether to play the tick sound based on the relationship between the player and the sender of the message.

RoyAwesome commented 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm not sure. I don't mind really subtle sound (a soft "thup" maybe?) if it's every chat message. Maybe make it an option in the options menu?

empZealoth commented 1 year ago

I think we definitely should not add noise to just general chat, at least not by default. IMO Empires lives by vivid communication, and having it constantly clutter up soundscape could get pretty tiring. Special rare but important messages could obviously use some extra DISTINCT audio cue, but imo it should be a rare occurrence.

RoyAwesome commented 1 year ago

I think some options here could work. I'd love to hear a really soft sound when someone is chatting, but I can see any chat being a problem. I think options menu entries here are the play. Maybe have a setting that plays this sound on [All; Team; Squad; Commander; None]

empZealoth commented 1 year ago

One thing I kind of worry is just excessive amount of options too. For example Factorio (especially ultra modded examples) have crazy amounts of all sorts of settings for basically everything. Which is cool. Unless you have to spend 2 hours combing through them every time you take a longer break or reinstall. And they also have a pretty advanced fuzzy search feature implemented too, to help players fish for possible adjustments, which is pretty indispensable with such crazy amounts of settings and would probably need to be implemented for pires at this point too.