The sound effects of minipets can be REALLY annoying. For example the mini super banana is playing its sound VERY, VERY frequently, like in every 15 seconds. And this is just 1 single banana minipet and many players have it.
Please, PLEASE implement the ability in settings/sound to change the sound of mini pets, like you did with the sounds of player instruments.
I have to mute the entire sound of the game due to this as it is driving me crazy… and to be honest, not just me.
Please, lower the volume on this mini? It’s disgustingly loud on the effects channel. It’s far louder than any other mini with such a disgusting choking/coughing sound. It’s been driving me nuts for weeks and I couldn’t figure out what it was. Finally just found the sound tonight. Yes, I’m aware it’s low on the priority list before anyone complains. It’s simply something that is quick and easy to do. And yes, I do actually like the game sound track and listen to it exclusively while playing.
I find SAB “car alarm” minis just as annoying as Toxic Hybrid. By which I mean: a whole world less annoying and rather negligible compared to the repetitive NPCs around those places.
It’s one of my favorite minis to use, but I only use it when I am not around other people as I know its sound effects can be quite annoying to many, though not to myself.
I do not think the volume of specific minis should be altered at all on a global scale. Instead, I feel that the volume of minis should be on its own volume slider, or at least coupled in with dialogue volume slider. Those who find some mini sounds annoying can choose to lower their volume or mute them instead of forcing lower mini sound effects on everyone across the game.
Then again, I do not mind most mini sounds, but I absolutely cannot stand NPC chatter due to their constantly repeating and bugging out (cutting out mid-sentence, multiple lines playing over each other real fast and repeating, etc), so I keep dialogue sound muted anyway and this would cause mini sounds to also be muted if it were grouped in with dialogue audio.
So I guess it would be best for all player preferences to simply have mini audio on its own volume slider, though this is far from the first time such a change has been suggested/requested.
Step 1: implement a toggle-able feature (simple tick/check box) in regards to mini pet audio/sound effects.
Step 2: PROFIT!
This is it ladies and gentlemen. This is the bees knees right here. The single, one and only key feature that would make a lot of player’s lives happier. Let’s do it ANet. I believe in you. I know you can do this. Please.
+1 this topic. Super mini pets are so annoying but there is no slider to control this. People are buying these mini’s just to troll those of us that hate them. Mini pets should not have volume, ugh!
It should be that you can toggle on and off other people’s pets but not your own. If you’re going to introduce that noise to the game you should have to suffer through it yourself.
There is no hell on GW2 that is like the hell of standing next to someone with Mini karka hatchlings.
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I love seeing my Mini Super Assassin out but I never have sound on so I usually forget to switch when I’m doing anything around a lot of people. I don’t like being a troll intentionally but some of the comments people yell in map chat are hilarious. One person said it sounds like an asthmatic pug.
Actually I would like these sounds, if they were played for example once in every 5 mins. Even with this setting we would still hear them quite frequently because many players have these annoying minipets but it would be much more tolerable.
But really, the best would be to be able to alter its sound volume, including the possibility to mute them completely.
I really despise the Mini Toxic Hybrid. It’s incredibly loud and obnoxious.
I could live with others, but this pest makes me rage.
First of all it sounds like someone is clearing his throat and then spitting it out.
Then it’s extremely loud for any mini and its obnoxious noise carries far and then it repeats every few seconds.
I wish there was a hack for this, like sweetfx or smth, to cancel out this riddiculous nerve wrecking noise.
For months I honestly thought it was a new sound effect for Charr’s. It sounds so much like a Charr trying to clear a hairball. Good God when standing at one of the major banks when this sound goes off, right?
I tried switching off all channels, but that pesky toxic hybrid wouldn’t shut up.
anet, please just make the sounds private. if someone enjoys noisy minis, let them have it for themselves without disturbing the peace of others.
Hmm, last I dealt with it, I was on a turret at Teq and turning off Dialog did shut the thing up. It just made it frustrating to listen for when a set of fingers was going to spawn.
+1
On the other hand, Anet may think this would make pets less attractive in gem store. Maybe those people buying pets want everyone to hear their pets’ lovely sounds.
Right now, hands down, super banana is the most annoying kittening thing in my life. I hate it’s sound effect with a PASSION. It annoys me more than people that don’t use their turn signal. Or people that smoke in non-smoking areas. Or people that don’t know the difference between there, their, and they’re.
PLEASE add a slider to turn off the mini and backpack sounds. At least for other people. Or the head lines in my area may read, “man commits despicable acts of evil due to super banana induced insanity.”
I turned effects volume back on today to see if this has been fixed. Banana sound bite played 3 times within the first minute. Turned it back off again.
Right now, hands down, super banana is the most annoying kittening thing in my life. I hate it’s sound effect with a PASSION. It annoys me more than people that don’t use their turn signal. Or people that smoke in non-smoking areas. Or people that don’t know the difference between there, their, and they’re.
PLEASE add a slider to turn off the mini and backpack sounds. At least for other people. Or the head lines in my area may read, “man commits despicable acts of evil due to super banana induced insanity.”
There are a couple of issues that are getting conflated here, by people proposing a solution before we are clear about the problem:
Some people hate some mini sounds.
Others love some mini sounds.
Some mini sounds are louder than others and/or more noticeable and/or more repetitious.
Some people enjoy some of the ambient sounds in the game, but not others — the game offers no way to pick & choose.
Thus, the solution of “disabling all mini sounds” doesn’t work for me: I love Gnashblade’s, “I was the favorite!” although other sounds are horrid and some are too quiet.
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Would a mini sound slider be such a bad option though? I see two different ways to do it too.
1.) affects all mini sounds, the further you slide it to the right the louder they get, the further left they get quieter till nothing.
2.) Does a few different things, from left to right of course. The furthest left option plays no mini sound. The middle option only plays your mini sounds. The furthest right plays all mini sounds.
Would either of those work?
EDIT: tell me if you like either of these, and why! Please!
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I completely support this. I’ve only been playing for a little over three months and I already wish I could send every one of those super sound effects minis to the cornfield. I can only imagine the rage of those who have been playing longer.
This is also one of the reasons why I like my mini Pact Airship. It doesn’t make a sound, it just glides along.
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Would a mini sound slider be such a bad option though? I see two different ways to do it too.
1.) affects all mini sounds, the further you slide it to the right the louder they get, the further left they get quieter till nothing.
2.) Does a few different things, from left to right of course. The furthest left option plays no mini sound. The middle option only plays your mini sounds. The furthest right plays all mini sounds.
Would either of those work?
I love this idea. I would also, like a few other posters, love to be able to turn off the job-o-tron backpack sounds.
I would be eternally grateful if you provide me with a slider to mute those annoying mini pet sounds, specially the mini karka’s annoying chirping and grinding.
You did it for the musical instruments, and I have never been more grateful.
Now, please do it again for these annoying sounds please I beg of you.
EDIT:
put the fossilized queen bee annoying sounds into that slider as well, that one is even MORE annoying !
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Oh… Someone said this at last! That annoying mechanical sound that burns into my brains every cell. Sweet sound of silence, how I missed you! Please give us an option to save our temper. Some pets sound “really” annoying. Like " oh bloody hell, why would someone even think a sound like that".
It is a minor issue but critical for people like me and my friend in the previous post. There really should be an option.
Mini super banana is really in the list of minis i never use because the sound is so distracting for me.
I like mimis a lot, but I still think it ould be nice to tone down the sound from time to time.
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