Guild Wars 2

Its making me scared to use my horn skill. i don’t think thats what they intended with this change.

Just tried my warhorn…

OMG, it’s bad.

I mean, I guess it’s funny (in a juvenile kind of way), but I felt the need to apologise to the people around me.

Dear ArenaNet, this is really too much. First, you destroy personal story audio. And now you destroy combat audio too?? You pushed some “bug fix” patch and pushed even more bugs in. What about taking a break, taking a deep breath, stopping to push that HoT release when it is obviously not ready, and FIRST FIXING THE GAME?

This is seriously embarrassing for me. My girlfriend started playing HoT, and since she started she gets her leveling experienced ruined by bugs. And I am like: “Oh, yeah.. It used to work like this and that, and don’t worry, they will fix it soon for sure [no, it’s a lie, it will be like this forerver].”

Really, stop doing your announcements about the future, and fix the present. Without this, there is no journey ahead for you.

HOWGH!

can we all group up in DR, sit in a circle and play our WH ?
Ministers WP is ok

please make it happen

Hmmm. I use warhorn a lot on my ranger, but I have several of the audios muted. I guess I need to make sure I’m not running around and farting loudly,

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Hmmm. I use warhorn a lot on my ranger, but I have several of the audios muted. I guess I need to make sure I’m not running around and farting loudly,

You are.

Still no Anet reply on this? Not even a one line comment?

Please Anet. Stop the farthorn.

When a game with lovely sound design make you want to disable all sounds, you messed up.

How hard can it be to make a horn sound like a kittening horn. really.

Sounds like a wet fart now

Lol I thought it was something wrong with my speakers at first and began checking the cables, thinking maan…now my speakers broke…crap.

It is a horrible noise. And I use that blasted horn all the time.

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Caedmon.6798:

Same,don’t like it.Sounds like a fart ;/

+1 totally agree

Logged in, see if todays patches did anything to fix the warhorn. Still sounds awfull. I’ll stick to my guardian then and stay away from people. Not that much different from normal, but still.

Guess no word from Anet means we’re going to have to live with this? :/

As far as I am concerned, while I am not fond of either sound I believe and expect nothing less than ALL classifications of warhorns making different sounds.

For example:

1. All crafting warhorn skins from bronze to orrichalcum should have the old sound file as the generic. Ascended warhorns should have an “evolved version” of this sound.

2. All other warhorn skins should be categorized and given their own sound files. Personally I find the Orrian/Krait warhorns fit this new sound the best! Along with some others I could mention…

Khristophoros.7194:

actual warhorns sound better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh1dYVloUqc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNVvtvmpl-g

In that second one the Isengard horn would be an excellent one for Tyria.

Now the enemy knows when I’m coming, from the fierce cry of my whoopee cushion. The mere thought of my flatulence drives fear into the heart of my foes.

Pa…phurrrrrrt!!!

Thanks Anet.

Please look into this! This is quite an annoying bug.

I’m so glad I’m not the only one who thought of farts when I heard the new WH sounds.
Norn Farts was my exact visual/auditory response.

They need to use that sound effect air horn thats in a bunch of pop songs.

So glad my ley line warhorn was not affected by this. If it was I’d have to stop playing those warhorn chars till it got fixed!

I kind of see what they were going for, with a more low-pitched “rumbling” sound. And honestly, I wouldn’t be opposed to that sort of sound for some classes (mainly Necro and possible Tempest, though I think even better for Tempest would be different sound effects per attunement… Air sounding like a howling wind, Earth being a low rumble, Fire being a burning hiss, ect). Warrior and Ranger should probably keep the original sound or get something between the current low-pitched one and the old high pitched variant.

But a huge swing-and-a-miss as far as the execution goes. There’s way too much “buzz” to it, which is what makes it sound like a big fart instead of a horn. Horns don’t really buzz like that played properly, so not only does it make it sound bad in general but it makes our characters seem like they don’t know what they’re doing.

I’d say revert it to the old version for the time being, make some new attempts with a lot less “buzz”, and try again.

The Mai Trin cannons sound are broken as well

Mugiwara Zoro.9240:

So glad my ley line warhorn was not affected by this. If it was I’d have to stop playing those warhorn chars till it got fixed!

I use a Sclerite warhorn but if the Ley Line is not affected I might have to buy it and hopefully have a transmutation that will keep the old sound. It is beyond annoying since my warrior uses it mostly for a 2nd weapon set.
I cant see myself using farthorn or warrior if it isn’t fixed.

Chill guys…

current warhorns sound like farts, and indeed as many others have posted, get real old real fast in WvW or anywhere with multiple warhorns in use.

the warhorn sounds like a spicy toot tight out the kitten

Dude, what is up today, every post I read is so funny I can’t stop laughing and crying from hilarity. Oh man wipes eyes I personally thought it had a bit of electrical crackle to it, but after a few hours of gameplay it did sound sometimes as someone sh.tting their pants, but only if you were tired and so inclined :P XD

Clearly Anet is going to turn GW2 into an epic Hollywood action flick. The warhorn BRAAAAAMM!!!! sound effect is just viral marketing.

The Inception Sound EVERYWHERE NOW! https://youtu.be/830I9w7I7wM

Sorry to spoil PAX for everyone.

Vukorep.3081:

can we all group up in DR, sit in a circle and play our WH ?
Ministers WP is ok

please make it happen

I found a dev yesterday and stood my Warrior next to him/her with the Warhorn set to auto attack. It’s time for the angry mobs of Tyria to hunt down every Dev in game until they relent and revert this horrible sound.

Can we get an official statement if the sound change is intended ?

At first i have thought that my soundcard was overloaded. It just sounds bad, even if it sounds more realistic. There was no need for a new warhorn-sound.

I’ve heard the claim that the new sound is "more realistic" from several people now, but I have yet to hear any horn, be it made from brass or animal horns, that sounds like wet flatulence.

A well-made horn has a clear tone. What "realistic" horn is the new GW2 horn sound based off of?

Drunken-Elephant-trunk-horn. Na, you are right, realistic is not the right word. I have listened to some animal-horn-sounds on youtube now. Nothing sounds like it.
To make a sound like the in-game warhorn sound, you need a really big horn and a bad blower. A tuba could make a sound like the in-game warhorn sound too.

Is it so you can sell good sounding warhorns in the gem store?

They said that wh sounds a bit annoying and they are trying to change that, so we have new sound effects for it, dunno if those are meant to actually fix it (?)

Super adventure box making a comeback? kappa

No response yet, but here’s the merged thread for you:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Warhorn-Audio-Feedback-merged/

And yes, we all think it sounds like farts.

It’s straight bullkitten. They have an awesome sound effects team that was shown on PoI awhile back and I know that they can come up with SOMETHING more ‘normal’ sounding for a darn warhorn. I really hope this is just a troll patch for warhorn.

Oh, so that’s what the user does to go faster. >.>

IT IS AWFUL…..

3 warriors in a party doing trash runs sounds even worse.

Please anet go back to the old sound that was nice and not so invasive!

Please for the love of goodness change them back, they sound horrible now. They don’t sound remotely like a horn.

Mcintosh.8427:

Please for the love of goodness change them back, they sound horrible now. They don’t sound remotely like a horn.

They sound remotely like horns you might find in a kazoo orchestra.

edit: adding context, after thread merge

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

They sound remotely like horns you might find in a kazoo orchestra.

+1, and rofl

I hated the old sound… these are great. XD

I love the new warhorn sounds.

The sound engineers probably thought they were clever by using some strange thing you’d never guess for the sound effect.

But no, whatever they did was a stupid idea.

Anet please. Literally just use an actual hollowed out animal horn. It’s not hard to get one. Probably way cheaper than those cellos and stuff you use.

I think this has to be a joke from the devs… it sounds like they sampled it from this- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSKQ3ZNQ_O8

I literally can’t use my warhorns… ;p Somebody cut the cheese.

I kinda like it. But I think if they can bring out an option for us to choose what the sound is, would be great.
Just a small drop down menu in the sound options for us to choose what warhorn sound we prefer..

I love new warhorn sound. It sounds like reaper ships from mass effect. Every time i toot it i get scared a little. But i love it.

New warhorn sound is OUGHFULL! Change it back, realy!
I’m playing with my warrior and necro using Warhorn and now its totaly uncomfortable!

The new warhorns sounds like “breaking the wind” instead! It should be reverted back to what they were before.