Guild Wars 2

(Nothing breaks immersion like)…someone with The Dreamer turning up.

Man that thing makes some seriously obnoxious noise. Might we please have a way to mute it, without having to turn down the entire “effects” spectrum?

Two minutes with the Dreamer is worse than 20 hours of listening to small children play an old NES. Seriously.

Awesome job on the game, otherwise

Love,
Me.

Kids and their care-bear modern gaming and AI controlled teammates that play the game for em’ can’t handle the fine tuned pristine difficulty of the NES. Their complaining may sound like cats on a chalk board but I wouldn’t compare it to the dreamer.

Mesmers exist and the dreamer, moot, quip, and so forth all scream mesmer to me even if mesmer can only use the Quip. Not the real Mesmer from Gw1 that had many darker mental shattering and nightmarish skills but the softer modern Mesmer of butterflies and flashy pink lights.

So it fits more in the game then lets say maybe Frostfang which I do count as a joke weapon compared to Astralaria. Your weilding a minion of Jormag after all and not being corrupted by it more so no one cares your swinging around a living corrupted dragon head as a weapon going through crowds and towns with something that should curropt them all.

Chuo.4238:

…someone with The Dreamer turning up.

“Nothing breaks immersion quite like… "

The Dreamer is consistent with the wings and auras and quaggan caps, plus SAB weapons and so on.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Chuo.4238:

…someone with The Dreamer turning up.

“Nothing breaks immersion quite like… "

The Dreamer is consistent with the wings and auras and quaggan caps, plus SAB weapons and so on.

Well, yes. Except for that horrific noise. Basically my speakers are overtaken by screeching ponies.

I think I’d prefer a quieter variety of very immersive rainbow pony.

Chuo.4238:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Chuo.4238:

…someone with The Dreamer turning up.

“Nothing breaks immersion quite like… "

The Dreamer is consistent with the wings and auras and quaggan caps, plus SAB weapons and so on.

Well, yes. Except for that horrific noise. Basically my speakers are overtaken by screeching ponies.

I think I’d prefer a quieter variety of very immersive rainbow pony.

Which gets to your actual request, to take something out of the game because you don’t like it. Personally I like the sound and the uniponies. The female norn and male asura voices annoy me though, and the pinkish yellow effects on Dawn aren’t to my taste, so let’s have those removed from the game as well. We could just have all sound and graphics removed since I’m sure that everything is disliked by someone.

“Nothing breaks immersion quite like…”

Invisible walls…

Thelgar.7214:

Which gets to your actual request, to take something out of the game because you don’t like it.

That’s not what he asked for. He asked for a way to mute it. For his session.

And, it’s quite a reasonable request. I’m not sure why it hasn’t already been done. They have stated that they try to deal with griefing (and they do a good job of it). But, this is one griefing tool they haven’t dealt with.

i’ve personally never heard the dreamer make any noise so i dont’ know how annoying it is. But yes there are some annoying sounds in teh game like female human guardians and their screeching voice for retreat. What annoys me more then the sound is why does my guard have to look like he’s pooping when i use staff #4 skill specially when a ranger comes along and muddy terrain’s me during it lol

Odin the exiled.5764:

i’ve personally never heard the dreamer make any noise so i dont’ know how annoying it is. But yes there are some annoying sounds in teh game like female human guardians and their screeching voice for retreat. What annoys me more then the sound is why does my guard have to look like he’s pooping when i use staff #4 skill specially when a ranger comes along and muddy terrain’s me during it lol

The dreamer whinnies every time it shoots. This is the closest I can find to a good example of how it sounds.

To me its quaggans. Whenever the story starts getting good, anet feels the need to shove in a quaggan to completely destroy all sense of an enjoyable immersive session

Looks like your are in need of a good quiping

They could associate the weapons sounds with player instruments. We DID get a control for that.

Aside from that, “I know your face from my dream.” . . . Alas, I listen to iHeart and mostly mute the wonderful music in GW.

+1 to mutable weapon sounds

keenedge.9675:

They could associate the weapons sounds with player instruments. We DID get a control for that.

Exactly where I was going with this. Tie the weapons into the instrument slider, or make a separate weapon slider.

The ability to mute player chatter was very, very much appreciated. Same with instruments. I think muting the weapons would pretty much cover all of the really obnoxious player noises.

When TWO Dreamer owners follow you around for 5 minutes constantly spamming their horrible noise after you DARED to complain about the Dreamer noise in map chat, yeah it’s definitely a troll weapon that needs a mute button.

Doam.8305:

Not the real Mesmer from Gw1 that had many darker mental shattering and nightmarish skills but the softer modern Mesmer of butterflies and flashy pink lights.

I feel you. I miss real mesmers too.

+1 simply for the “Dreamer Mute” thread. It’s long overdue.

How about simply giving players an option to “mute special sound effects on weapons” as a checkbox option in sounds? I love the look of The Dreamer, and while I wouldn’t say it breaks my immersion it does get annoying after a few minutes.. Same goes for Quip.

Najten.2418:

How about simply giving players an option to “mute special sound effects on weapons” as a checkbox option in sounds? I love the look of The Dreamer, and while I wouldn’t say it breaks my immersion it does get annoying after a few minutes.. Same goes for Quip.

If that would include SAB-minis, jobotron backpack and the like im in favor.

Please include that bow we all know we hate the sound of too, the bow which shall not be named. maybe with a little mute icon beside you’re name, you know just so they know that the person they are trying to annoy can’t even hear them. lol

Tekoneiric.6817:

“Nothing breaks immersion quite like…”

Invisible walls…

This I can totally agree with. If I can jump to or fly to some place, then I should be able to. If you want players not to go there, instead put large rocks or some sort of terrain. Not just a solid invisible wall.

circuitnerd.5863:

Tekoneiric.6817:

“Nothing breaks immersion quite like…”

Invisible walls…

This I can totally agree with. If I can jump to or fly to some place, then I should be able to. If you want players not to go there, instead put large rocks or some sort of terrain. Not just a solid invisible wall.

Blame gliding being added later: it’s less expensive to wall things like that, than to fix all the terrain to actually support “physical” restrictions as implied by gliding.

At least they didn’t do a WoW and just turn off gliding in older zones entirely…

circuitnerd.5863:

Tekoneiric.6817:

“Nothing breaks immersion quite like…”

Invisible walls…

This I can totally agree with. If I can jump to or fly to some place, then I should be able to. If you want players not to go there, instead put large rocks or some sort of terrain. Not just a solid invisible wall.

They do tend to try, problem with that of course is most of the time it obscures you field of view and you’re left play gymnastics with the mouse to see where you’re going.

The odd thing is, for all the hate for underwater combat, they appear to in ‘some’ cases not all made the same mistake or worse with gliding, though I don’t see a problem with underwater combat.

SlippyCheeze.5483:

circuitnerd.5863:

Tekoneiric.6817:

“Nothing breaks immersion quite like…”

Invisible walls…

This I can totally agree with. If I can jump to or fly to some place, then I should be able to. If you want players not to go there, instead put large rocks or some sort of terrain. Not just a solid invisible wall.

Blame gliding being added later: it’s less expensive to wall things like that, than to fix all the terrain to actually support “physical” restrictions as implied by gliding.

At least they didn’t do a WoW and just turn off gliding in older zones entirely…

They should have made it with zones portals.

Amaimon.7823:

To me its quaggans. Whenever the story starts getting good, anet feels the need to shove in a quaggan to completely destroy all sense of an enjoyable immersive session

But quaggans are the Jar Jar binks of GW2!!! Oh, wait, that’s IS a bad thing….

P.S. Still gonna make shooshadoo!

Never even noticed that weapon has any actual sound, just the ponies. Each to their own, and I guess you hang out with a lot more Dreamer lovers than me, but it’s never bothered me.

penelopehannibal.8947:

Never even noticed that weapon has any actual sound, just the ponies. Each to their own, and I guess you hang out with a lot more Dreamer lovers than me, but it’s never bothered me.

{Giggles} except it’s not each to their own as we cannot turn it off, so we forced to listen to it or have a muted GW2

that also goes for any other weapon/mini/pet that makes sounds then…

coso.9173:

that also goes for any other weapon/mini/pet that makes sounds then…

Pretty much, the dialog from NPCs gets a little grating on the nerves after awhile, “Okay, if you’re Margery you’ve gotta let me….” (strangle you to death with you’re own .wav file!!!?) just you wait ANet on the 1st of April will have all the NPCs go on strike, and picket the players will billboard signs.. “We will not be silenced”

We can reduce NPC chatter frequency, we can manipulate individual sound channels, turn down instruments, change frequency of BGM, modify rendering density and quality of other players …

… but gods forfend that we not hear that whinny in the midst of a fight every time some ranger does literally anything.

(At least it’s not a longbow …)