Guild Wars 2

Hello,
Thanks for the call out Gaile.

The Layline sounds were a team effort between Drew and I. I did them first in video and then handed that session over to Drew to get the sounds in game. I’m usually the fortunate one that gets to work on sounds in our marketing/cinematic videos that haven’t been done in game yet, “concept audio” if you will. Then we have to figure out how we’ll get that to work in game. I’ll see if I can find that session and get you some more details about what sounds I used. I’m pretty sure it was mostly done in a VST granular synthesizer called Padshop. I’ve made a lot of sounds in there just by dropping random SFX in and “playing”. I end up with these long recorded files I go back through and cut out the parts I like. I love this kind of sound design as you get to “perform” the sounds, but it is easy to get lost in how fun this is and spend hours just making sounds that you may or may not use:).

Hello,
Thanks for the feedback everyone, we will definitely look at this. It is quite often a hard balance between what we think an area would sound like if it was real and what we “want” it to sound like. But you are right, areas that we spend a lot of time in need extra care to make sure the sounds don’t make you want to leave:). Thanks.

Thanks nuggant,
I’ll add my .02

The G35 headphones don’t do “discrete” surround. They take the surround signal and use Dobly ProLogic to create “surround” out of 2 speakers. Now some people like this and some don’t, that will have to be your choice, try both. When I’ve used these headphones, I’ve set the G35 to stereo and GW2 to stereo and enjoyed it with as little of modifications from logitech as possible, but that’s just me:).

To be clear, Guild Wars 2 does support surround, if you have speakers and hardware to support it, like what nuggant has.

The problem StinVec is referring to is if you set the game to Surround but only have 2 speakers, you will lose sounds since it’s trying to route the audio to speakers that don’t exist.

Hope that helps.
james