Guild Wars 2

PLEASE, ANET!

The time is long overdue to give us control over sound effects originating from other players’ equipped items.

The Replica Job-O-Tron backpack is the fingernails on the chalkboard of my sanity. It has gotten to the point where whenever I hear that infernal voice (apologies to Yuri Lowenthal), I just have to leave the area. I feel like ANet itself is trolling me, trying to get my dander up. Well it’s working. I actually left in the middle of a Boss fight the other night, forgoing any reward just because that thing wouldn’t shut up. It has really become that annoying to me.

Don’t get me wrong. I know some people enjoy it. I am not trying to take anything away from them. I just want the ability to put on some noise-cancelling headphones with regard to other peoples’ sound effects. This includes lots of mini pets (nearly all SAB pets, the Ho-Ho-Tron constant jingling, etc.)

You already gave us the ability to control the volume of other players’ musical instruments, since they were being used as trolling devices. Bravo! Now take it a step further and finish the task by letting us adjust the other troll-like noises emanating from other characters’ equipped items. (Some players do jump around with the obvious intent of making their backpack chatter as much as possible. This is, in some cases, deliberate trolling).

But don’t stop there! After you have given us control over other peoples’ sound effects, then RETURN all the noises that have been removed. I want to hear my mini golems clanking footsteps again. I want to hear all their “beeps” and “boops”. I want to hear my mini Princess Doll scream in anguish when I jump off a cliff. I want to hear my riding broom’s “jet airplane” sound without it dying slowly away. The list goes on.
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TL/DR: Give us the ability to adjust the perceived level of other players’ equipped-item sound effects, and return all the sound effects that have been removed already (presumably in a quick-fix, band-aid effort to reduce other perceived sound pollution problems).

Make this your New Year’s Resolution.

They did what to the wintersday mini sound effects!?

RAGE

Ho-Ho-Tron vs. Marcello was a great moment in GW2 history. Yet, all those Thing-O-Tron are an absolute pain indeed.

They’re talking all the time and are note remotely fun at all. Moreover, the french voice for them is catastrophic.

I totally endorse a way to shut other characters noisy devices up.

Had to look it up on youtube and I was wondering: why in the name of god would someone torture himself with such an item?

I mean annoying others is one thing, but how can the wearer support that noise?

You jumped!
Wheee!
Your grawl impression is really coming along!
Sacrifice your children to Abaddon!
Congratulations, you killed something!
Death is the greatest grace, grant it to everyone you know!
You are leaking!
Faster, Faster!
Hail Mordremoth!

Do you want a device saying these things anywhere public? Lets destroy the JobOTron today!

You can still see his chat bubbles, even with the sound turned off. It’s annoying to be doing something like Teq and having his chat bubbles popping up in front of you saying stupid things. Why does it have a chat bubble except to try to catch attention so more people will buy it? What he says should be client side only and no chat bubble. And that goes for those harvesting tools also.

No to the client side only, yes to a sound slider for this category of sounds.

Yes please let us turn these annoyances off.

I wish we could at least go medieval on that Torment-O-Tron’s owner.
Stupid faction concept. -.-

Wow. I must have my settings different, because I’ve never seen these chat bubbles, nor (I think) heard this backpack.

Probably have player-created sounds turned off or something. 0.o

I think I just had chat bubbles until they changed the settings to allow player skill comments to be turned off (the “I can outrun a centaur” type comments). I turned it on so I can hear NPC dialog but that includes the Tron commentary.

I personally like the Tron items……….HOWEVER I 100% understand why others hate the talking things and……..the speed boost and jumping quotes can get annoying and can be seen as unintentional trolling on the user’s part and mini ho-ho-tron with his bell is bad

I don’t use speakers because I’d rather not have game sounds competing with other stuff going on with apartment sharers. I don’t use headphones because extended use gives me a headache. So, I play without sound. I never hear Job-o-Tron or other annoying in-game sound effects. Of course, I also don’t hear NPC dialogue and have to read it instead. Nor do I hear the music, which I believe is the greater loss.

I offer this, not because I believe it to be a good solution, never mind an ideal one, but if people are at the point where they’d rip their ears off (or something else drastic), I can testify that it’s possible to adjust to doing without the “good” sounds to avoid the “bad” ones.

I find myself standing a good distance away from my friend, when the queen bee buzzing starts to get to me. A slider would be a god send.

Yes, please. Enough with this obnoxious kitten in game!

+1 to this. Luckily I haven’t heard much of the job-o-tron, but I do cringe when I hear the Jack-in-the-box farming tool being spammed used.