Guild Wars 2

Still haven’t gotten around to fixing The Dreamer yet? Sounds are still random and does not consistantly play them. I assume the howler is still broken but idk that for sure.

Allison The Strange.4519:

Still haven’t gotten around to fixing The Dreamer yet? Sounds are still random and does not consistantly play them. I assume the howler is still broken but idk that for sure.

I just crafted the Dreamer and I must say, I’m devastated about the lack of sounds.

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Didnt..they change the sound of the dreamer? maybe they shut it off because people complained about it, dunno, but either way, dont let this turn into the howler again..

still bugged. only works properly in instances !

This has been not working really for a long time. In many cases, the audio drivers are up to date for people. And why would dreamer and maybe one or 2 other legendaries be the ones that somehow aren’t working? I don’t have it, but I know someone that does, and we’ll test it and see, but I know the sound was noticed to have been gone a year ago.

Please change the sound of that weapon to something that wont kitten off people wearing headphones. The new content forces people into grouping and there are no words to describe how it feels when you have to listen to that annoying sound during the whole event chain. Even worse, last night I had a guy following me the whole nightfall cycle in Verdant Brink on purpose just because I commented how annoying it is.

holodoc.5748:

Even worse, last night I had a guy following me the whole nightfall cycle in Verdant Brink on purpose just because I commented how annoying it is.

At that point it’s harassment. Next time report them, we could use a few less trolls

On topic, I didn’t realize to mute the bow all I had to do was downgrade my sound drivers. I might have to do this as a temporary mute.

For me, whenever I had my fps capped at 30 there was no sound for it, but at 60 there was.

A perspective from the other side:

- Would you please add the annoying horse sounds to the player instruments audio channel ???

- This way I don’t have to listen to those annoying horse sounds all the kitten time.
This is so annoying, I had to turn off sound in gw2 completely just to be able to actually play and enjoy the game again.

I love the music in this game sooooo much, but I’m not gonna suffer through these horse sounds, sorry !

Thank you very much.

Lauren Kamieniecki.6245:

Lunacy Solacio.6514:

This has been not working really for a long time. In many cases, the audio drivers are up to date for people. And why would dreamer and maybe one or 2 other legendaries be the ones that somehow aren’t working? I don’t have it, but I know someone that does, and we’ll test it and see, but I know the sound was noticed to have been gone a year ago.

If there are a lot of people and sounds also happening in your area some sounds do drop out.

Yes aware of that. However, even removing that variable, the sound still does not play for multiple people. Just tested it, and it sounds just like a regular old bow, so this isn’t a case of no sound, just no dreamer effect.

Edit: I could upgrade drivers, but updated drivers had already been tried for the guildee that has dreamer. I generally don’t bother with sound drivers once it’s stable because it rarely, if ever, makes a difference, and have to go through like realtek to get more current drivers. That works fine for me, but for some this may not be easy or practical since their computer manufacturer doesn’t keep up on providing them. I’ll do it to personally test, but as stated, they were already using current drivers. Then you have laptop manufacturers for some people too, also not playing the dreamer audio.

Why would dreamer be special in this respect? I’ll agree it can get annoying, but if this was the cause, why only these certain things? Why not also affect quip?

Lauren Kamieniecki.6245:

Lunacy Solacio.6514:

This has been not working really for a long time. In many cases, the audio drivers are up to date for people. And why would dreamer and maybe one or 2 other legendaries be the ones that somehow aren’t working? I don’t have it, but I know someone that does, and we’ll test it and see, but I know the sound was noticed to have been gone a year ago.

If there are a lot of people and sounds also happening in your area some sounds do drop out.

Hopefully this thread hasn’t been lost to the Mordrem and what I have to say will benefit someone in the community. Ok, so I have been having this issue for many months and also reported it in game about 3-4 months ago. I understand sounds can drop out, overcharged air for tempest is a prime example; however, this is not the case with the Dreamer. I have noticed that most of the time it sounds exactly like a normal bow, just a lot better animation effects. (: I also noticed that it almost always works in fractals, especially Uncategorized and oddly enough it also most often works when backed against a wall or object that has collision. The moment I am no longer within a few footsteps on the wall, I lose the sound again. Occasionally I will get sound in the middle of nowhere, like running to Blue in Silverwastes or to Plinx in Cursed Shore.

On a side note, this seems to be true for guildies that have the Dreamer as well, but everyone who doesn’t have a Dreamer is able to hear us just fine. This rings true for ranger and thief. I updated all my drivers and even tried logging on from another computer, but still couldn’t hear it. It is extremely frustrating because I can hear the Dreamer on my alt account that does not have the bow. So while I believe drivers may play a very important role for some users, I think there is a lot more going on. I: Nonetheless, I still love the bow.

One more quick note I should make is that I have Quip and can hear it consistently, only having it fade in large zergs which is to be expected. Hope this helps, attaching dxdiag. <3

I have the same problem, I used to hear it. Can hear other legendaries sound but The Dreamer.

I can hear the sound sometimes if I flip the character from the screen. (Like character facing the monitor while shooting The Dreamer) We spend so much time/effort/cash to craft this bow and now it’s bugged. Please fix it soon.

(By the way, there is ZERO people around me when I use my Dreamer… and sound don’t often come out, so I’m pretty sure it’s the problem on anet’s side not our sound device).

with my CM storm 5.1 headset wich has it’s own USB soundcard, sounds play ok in the game. With MSI G43 motherboard, and the cheap onboard sound chip (wich is of an unknown brand sadly to me – it’s not the well known/regarded Realtek cheap like their 889 model), with this cheap it doesn’t work.

Also lauren, no that we are talking about sounds: Some magical skills have supercool effects that emerge you in the game, but then you guys did a clean slate of nerfing ‘loud’ sounds to make pvp more balanced (sound wise). Can you please insert an option for pve players (or even pvp), so that the client (and only client) executes the old (and waaaaaaaaaay better imo) sound packets please? The game sounds like it’s it wanna be a huge war movie, but only uses sounds from a child adequate movie at the moment…

To give you example: Bombs, grenades, the jump skill used in sanctum sprint, chaos storm (this one is nerfed for long time already).

Some of the new skills (specializations) have not been ‘sound dumbed down yet’ and absolutely sound amazing, but if you go tru and nerf these, it’s gonna be a nightmare for me. I never play without sound, and pvp is least of my worries. I want to be emerged into the game, and accurate explosion, etc do that. Wich you guys just blatantly overnerfed for the sake of your pvp child. Stop this plz. Or give a client option with different (louder! old ones) sound packets.

Tested it again and while I do not own dreamer, I only heard the whinny a couple times over probably 10 mins of firing trying different directions, etc., and it seemed random when it did occur. Owner of it had to have the camera facing the character, and angled upward which is similar to what others have said on that.

My sound is through motherboard, but it’s Realtek chip. The one that owns it I know has a usb headset, Razer.

Three ANet replies to this thread already but not a single one on the much older much longer thread regarding the now pitiful legendary that is The Howler. Depressing.

enlightened.5396:

Three ANet replies to this thread already but not a single one on the much older much longer thread regarding the now pitiful legendary that is The Howler. Depressing.

I was about to post the same thing. How is it that the same Devs/Mods couldn’t comment on Howler and that issue is over a year and an half old.

Akrasia.5469:

enlightened.5396:

Three ANet replies to this thread already but not a single one on the much older much longer thread regarding the now pitiful legendary that is The Howler. Depressing.

I was about to post the same thing. How is it that the same Devs/Mods couldn’t comment on Howler and that issue is over a year and an half old.

Pfft screw that

3 replies on a thread about sound but no replies on a thread about gamebreaking missing rewards/broken mechanic? Lovely to know where SkinWars 2 is really heading.

Gaile Gray.6029:

I have The Dreamer. And I hear the sounds and, in fact, have had a few people ask me “What IS that sound” or “Can you disable that whinnying?”

I agree with Lauren, and I’ve been tracking this for a while: When I’m in a busy area, especially a boss fight zone, I seldom hear the bow. But when I’m out in the wild, I generally do hear it. I leave the analysis of bug/not a bug to those more expert than me, but in my personal case, I’ve attributed the loss of sound to the busy-ness of my area and nothing more.

I’ll try to pay more attention and take notes in the future, in case I see the sound dropping out when it’s not a highly-populated area.

That Bow … Dreamer sound changed with HoT. It was annoying before but now its even worse , its unbelievably annoying .. Please make this bow produce sound on certain skill but please remove it at least on the auto-attack. If you ever complain about this bow in game you will get harassed by the owner .. he will follow you spamming his skill just to annoy you even more …. yes it happen often

This bow and the annoy-O-Tron Back pack are the worst thing

Gaile Gray.6029:

I have The Dreamer. And I hear the sounds and, in fact, have had a few people ask me “What IS that sound” or “Can you disable that whinnying?”

I agree with Lauren, and I’ve been tracking this for a while: When I’m in a busy area, especially a boss fight zone, I seldom hear the bow. But when I’m out in the wild, I generally do hear it. I leave the analysis of bug/not a bug to those more expert than me, but in my personal case, I’ve attributed the loss of sound to the busy-ness of my area and nothing more.

I’ll try to pay more attention and take notes in the future, in case I see the sound dropping out when it’s not a highly-populated area.

The problem isn’t that I can’t hear it during boss battles or that other people can’t hear it. Trust me, they can and ever since that patch changed the sound, people complain daily. The problem isn’t even that I can’t hear it at all, it’s that it is very buggy and inconsistent. On the same computer that I cannot hear my bow, I can hear it on my alt account that does not have the bow. That goes to show it is not a computer, driver, OOM issue. Also, speakers and headsets do not change whether I can hear the Dreamer or not. I have tried about 5 different headsets, the built in speakers, and 2 aux speakers.

As for the people on this thread complaining about the sound, this is a thread to try and fix it for the owners that cannot hear it consistently, or at all…not about how tortured the whinnying sounds are now. You guys can’t seem to stop hearing it and we can’t seem to continuously hear it >.< As frustrating as it is to hear one on auto, it’s 10x more frustrating for us because we spent a lot of time, money, and effort on a legendary that has a buggy sound. Regarding the Howler folks, I’m sorry. I:

Something to make mention of, I noticed the sound stopped working for me after a specific patch (I cannot remember the date as I was in and out of the hospital, but I know it was floating around on another thread here).

biznitchash.7963:

Akrasia.5469:

enlightened.5396:

Three ANet replies to this thread already but not a single one on the much older much longer thread regarding the now pitiful legendary that is The Howler. Depressing.

I was about to post the same thing. How is it that the same Devs/Mods couldn’t comment on Howler and that issue is over a year and an half old.

Pfft screw that

3 replies on a thread about sound but no replies on a thread about gamebreaking missing rewards/broken mechanic? Lovely to know where SkinWars 2 is really heading.

idk on howler either. I can’t remember if a dev commented on that in the past. I thought something had been said about it though.

About missing game rewards? Assuming you mean about map completion not giving rewards? That’s known, fix is due nov 17th, it’s in the dev tracker. I’d highly suggest watching it and not waiting in a single thread to get a response. Also, just because no one from Anet has responded doesn’t mean they haven’t seen it. Of course communication could always be better. There’s some things I’d like acknowledged as well, but this thread isn’t about them. The response in this thread was because when seen, the QA Lead had a suggestion to help, a suggestion that appeared to be within the players realm of control to fix that they had noticed while testing. However the issue isn’t that simple for many apparently.

And every time a dev replies on one issue, they are getting harassed for not replying on another. Then, if they reply on that one, they get harassed for not replying on a 3rd. There comes a time where they have to consider if replying is even worth the effort or if doing so is going to cause more issues than not doing so.

I’m going to go ahead and update this. First, while some like the new aura effects, others do not, including some that have dreamer… No can’t please everyone, but it’s rather more disliked in some ways.

As for the sound, Still have not been able to hear in LA, even after the patch, except the situation described above. However, I did in fact hear the neighing while doing a hero challenge in Auric Basin when someone with the bow joined in. However I know that I’ve been in other areas and not able to hear it, so something about it is inconsistent shrug