How Overwatch's sound design makes you a better player
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ค. 2016
- Overwatch does some incredible stuff with its audio, to ensure players get the right information when they need it. How has Blizzard managed that? Chris takes a look (or a listen, I guess).
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One of the big things I noticed when playing Overwatch was that if you're getting shot in the back your teammates will say "behind you!" or something similar. It can only be heard by you, and it comes in handy when you don't know where the damage is coming from.
It is also possible that the one shooting you, say that if there is no teammate around.
+kempo 95 detras de ti, imbecil.
The voice callouts you get from your own hero when they drop in health is a detail I really like. I also like how dVa has two, one for in the mech that sounds frustrated and one for on foot that sounds like real danger.
When you hear the "It's hiiiiiigh noon" you fucking get out of there.
Easily the most scary sound to hear when playing someone like genji or tracer, it's practically an instant lock on
Ashley d BOMBS AWAY! *Oh Shit*
+Faintedsquirtle
If there's 1 thing I learned from my experience with the open beta, its asking McCree for the time is fucking pointless, unless of course its actually midday.
+Faintedsquirtle If u noticed If mccree is in Night themed map something Dorado he says "It's highnoon somewhere in the world "
Goutham Dinesh Lol that's pretty neat!
I was absolutly amazed by Overwatches sound design. Within a few hours I learned so much about how the mechanics work just from the sound design. I learned about every ultimate, every word phrases the heroes say give actually important information, and I have a much easier time locating things then in other FPS.
For example you can hear when the enemy builds a teleporter. You immediatly start to look out for it (especially flankers) and if someone destroys it, they will say so, so you know you don't have to worry about that. And it's not messy even when alot of things happen at the same time
Actually, I think my favorite thing, or at least the thing I've been finding the most useful, is when you take damage from an enemy you can't currently see, and there's a teammate nearby/in line-of-sight/however they calculate it; you get whichever character's unique "behind you!" line. I don't know what it is about it, it just helps me react to the situation much faster. So good. I've never been a huge Blizzard fanboy (literally the only other Blizzard game I've ever sunk any substantial time into is Hearthstone), but that doesn't mean I don't seriously respect the "Blizzard polish" as they say. It's the little things and all the subtle nuances that can really take a great game and turn it into a true classic.
I absolutely love this. Usually, it doesn't happen fast enough for me, but it's so goddamn nice and in-character.
IT'S HIGH N- AUGHHHHHH!!!!
DIE DIE- AUGHHHHHH!!!!
JUST- ARHHHGHHHH!!!
+Nowheremovies don't forget
I'VE GOT YOU IN MY- AAAAGH
My favorite: Heroes never- AAUGHHHH!
just as well as
FIRE IN THE- AAAAGH!
LET THE DRAGO- ohhhhh.
NO ONE CAN HIDE FROM M- aaah.
DOO WEE DOO WEE- BOOM!
PASS INTO THE IRIS.
FIRE IN THE HOLE!
LET THE DRAGON CONSUME YOU!
No one can hide frrrom my sights....
DOO WEE DOO WEEOW!
hyugo waka teki- agghhhhhhh!!!!!
nerf di aggh!!!!!!
hyujiniko kouk- aghhhhh!!!!!!!!
my dream is to yank that bitch who keeps shouting nerf dis right in the middle of her bomb, and i should in escape in time and be like ummm ok XDDDDDDDDD
I just want to toss on there that I'm very glad the character that's probably one of the best at contesting control points always roars "I AM TAKING THE OBJECTIVE, JOIN ME IN GLORY" every time he actually moves forward to contest the point.
Roadhog's wheezing as your health is lower was when I noticed the sound design most. Kept me alive
The great thing about it is that it's very straightforward gives you what you need to hear and no clutter, making for a very seamless gameplay experience. Even if you're not thinking about it, the game is giving you so much background information that you can just focus entirely on the game itself. Sometimes you don't even have to look at the UI because cues like "I'm on fire!" and your character deeply breathing when on low health are all there to communicate in such a simple and effective manner.
From things like unique ulti lines, The distant echo of a sniper shot that can only mean a Widowmaker is on the map, the loud noise of Junkrat's rip-tire incoming, to hearing a firefight in the distance while you're on the way from your spawn, it's so good because it feels so organic, it makes sense and it doesn't get in your way.
Blizzard has made it real easy to get passionately immersed in this game.
And thats their 1st FPS! Some Devs still didn't figure this out and are releasing FPS for years...
Battlefield... COD... subtle nods to you...
i think battlefield are about to do something right with battlefield 1 though
*****
I don't believe DICE. Sry, but after BF3 everything just went downhill. Unfinished products, one and the same games with couple of changes...
+Kauko13
Wait and see I guees, I'm also sceptical but I might try it if the reviews and gameplay videos are good.
well... Warcraft was their first rts, wow their first mmorpg, diablo their first action rpg.. all great games
Huh, I didn't notice this dynamic audio mixing in the beta (or importance system as Blizzard calls it), but the comparison here highlighted it really well. It's actually quite clever. Thanks for the video Chris!
you probably noticed, just never paid attention to it.
That's pretty incredible! I'd love to know if other games do something similar.
+Nicholas Boyd Isacsson Me too! -Chris
+Nicholas Boyd Isacsson
Tons of games do it, actually. There's this thing in game design called a tell/feedback loop, and sound design plays a huge part in it.
+Nicholas Boyd Isacsson Rainbow Six siege has a nice sound design and mechanics for the audio
+Eurogamer If you are talking about games from this generation. R6 Siege, Splatoon or Killer Instinct should be your next stop as they use the audio really well (Though I think you did KI before tangentally). Splatoon in particular has a very underrated soundmix that helps you with the proximities of your team mates and opponents. Nintendo were really clever, especially since the game had no voice chat. Granted, you will still get rolled by a squad using a vent client because there will always be an advantage. But the sound cues used are very well done.
+Nicholas Boyd Isacsson There's a fair amount of games with solid sound design. Battlefield 4, Halo 4, Rainbow 6 Siege, etc
Funny that Tracer's "pseudo British accent" is the voice actor's /actual/ accent, yet everyone thinks its fake.
what the team mates say also is always dependent on your own client. you'll never hear a team mate say "behind you" or "watch your six" etc. unless there's an enemy behind you, not another one of your team mates.
+Ohrami but that doesnt make sense really.
+Feb Loo It kinda does, if an enemy is attacking me from my flanks, a nearby ally will notify me about it. This simple design has actually saved my bacon in OW. And ever so slightly encourages you to stick with your team. Neat eh?
Roguelike
yes but i think everyone should hear the same^^
Sure it helps but it is fake as shit.
+Feb Loo At this I would have to pull the "Gameplay first" card. If Tracer shouts "Behind you!" and the whole team hears it, Mercy, Roadhog, Reaper, Reinhardt and Bastion are ALL going to turn around, even if only Mercy is getting shot at, which is SUPER bad.
That said, half the time my response when I hear that is "I KNOW!" or "Well, I'm already dead."
Hmm well your right but i dont like it.
The part where you do the comparison is the best part. My ears hurt after the 'before'. I am SO used to their system of sound design that hearing the sounds without the design elements added makes it just sound like noise that I'd sooner disable since not only do I not glean any information out of it but it distracts and annoys me.
TF2 had a similar ethos for the design of their characters, by shape/size you could easily distinguish who you are looking at.
Then of course they went silly with all the hats and different weapons and stuff that made it annoying, personally.
The instantly recognizable silhouette design is in Overwatch as well. Also, in TF2, you can disable all hats if you have some technical know how.
The thing is, in TF2 they never let through any skins which change their silhouette and overall color, so any character is always instantly recognizable, whatever skin they wear. Same thing with Dota 2.
Not so much technical know how, more of knowing how to google and put it in the autoexec.cfg file.
Very fucking good video man and a lot of people would never take the time to notice and appreciation these details in such a descriptive manner, just great job again!
FYI: Cara Theobold, the voice for Tracer, is British, through and through. Check out her IMDB profile. She's also on TH-cam doing a BAFTA interview. Strong Northern accent.
+Tomasi Akimeta It's amazing how touchy and dismissive the Brits can get about their accents. Every British accent that isn't their particular accent is suddenly some poor facsimile.
I'd like to disagree, but throughout my amateur rugby days, I've played with lots of ex-pat Brits and Irish, and the ones I've met they're VERY particular to their regional accents. One guy called out a girl at a local Guitar Center in San Francisco who was born and raised from Dublin, but lived in SF for school. He was shocked when she was able to name *his* accent and where from Leeds he may have went to school.
I'm American and she still sounded like a cartoon. I was amazed to learn she's Downton-Abbey-British.
One thing to note about the ultimates, is that heroes on the enemy team will often call out their ultimates in their native tongue.
Such as Mercy saying 'Helden sterben nicht!' When she's on the enemy team, and 'Heroes never die!' when she's on your team.
Same with Genji 'Ryūjin no ken wo kūrae!' on the enemy team, and 'The dragon becomes me!' when he's on your team.
Can't remember all the characters who do this, but I definitely recall Hanzo and Mei
+Azir Sad when youre german and Mercy says it the same whether shes from enemy or my team. Also its
Ryuu ga waga teki wo kurau! (竜が我が敵を喰らう) which means "dragon eat my foes".
Feb Loo Thats Hanzo's quote though.
***** When he pulls the sword out, he says "Ryuuji no kaioken!" Which, I'm no expert in Japanese but "fighting spirit of the dragon", . You wrote more like Hanzos Ult just wrong.
'Ryūjin no ken wo kūrae' is one of Genji's ult quotes.
"Ryuu ga waga teki wo kurau" Is one of Hanzo's.
You can find both of those quotes on the Overwatch Wiki
"Death comes" - (me thinking, wait, doesn't that mean that a reaper just teleported behind me since I hear the voice from there?) *Dead*
What a learning experience
won't doubt myself next time!
"I like Tracer's pseudo british accent".. Her voice actress is british..
+DemoBytom Her accent is still highly exaggerated from what I've heard.
+Collin “Ser Buckman” Buckman As a Brit, yes. Very exaggerated.
+Undeadwolfy I can confirm all Americans sound like Mcree though.
Becouse tracer is from Londyn
+Pete White it's high noon
Great video, provided some great insight into the behind the scenes of overwatch
Never even considered this. It's like another dimension of game design to analyze for me.
I noticed the loud footsteps playing Widowmaker. More than once it has helped me notice a flanking Reaper. Thanks for bringing this to our attention!
I've just come from watching a video on the maps. This is really an amazingly well designed game.
0:51
rocket headshots DansGame
The reason why people don't talk about a lot this is because (at least this is what I think) that it's common knowledge. Even just making a satisfying noise will attract a player to it. I love the stomping you can hear when in D.va's "Meka". Footsteps and every little noise and voices should have as much thought into them as the normal gameplay mechanics. Take CSGO for example, you can tell what gun they are using by listening to the fire rate, pitch, and loudness. Like somebody comes around a corner with an AWP and fires it twice in a row. You know for sure unless the noise of a throwable or other things are coming into play. Overwatch is built for esports and they will put care into everything because even the smallest thing can mean winning the match.
+The Almighty Pido - Rather than calling common knowledge, I'd say the sound design is so intuitive and well-made that it syncs in to even new players without any real need for a tutorial and without them realizing. The character dialogues feel so natural but at the same time I soon realized how every line (post the pre-battle) is actually a que. I thought the game might be a lot worse without teammates using a mic but the characters say much of what I'd like to say, lol (plus the dialogue wheel).
CS:GO does have awesome gun sounds though (dat Desert Eagle is blissful).
Yeah, I agree completely. Thanks for wording it better. And my favorite CSGO gun noise is possibly the scout.
I was slowly picking this up on my own, but you absolutely nailed it's presence and usefulness. Love your effort to make this, totally subscribing!
Proabably one of your most insightful videos Chris, really well done.
>liking tracer's british accent
>not playing in weaboo chinese language
Jokes aside,that was honestly a great video,nice job
The comparison clip at 6:46 is striking - I felt significantly more spatially aware in the second clip, I can hardly tell what the teammates are doing right before you exit the spawn area. The difference is very similar to playing an fps on a speaker bar then going to positional 3d audio headphones.
I don't think you mentioned this directly but I do believe the importance system also prioritizes your class too - giving emphasis to classes which directly counter you or pose a bigger threat than others. It also appears to be that it communicates your opponents health status through sound as well - I find the sounds going on during an encounter do an awesome job telling you if you're doing real damage or just minor splash damage so I can make better decisions as to advance or retreat.
All of this clear communication to the player makes the game far less frustrating for me - when I die or otherwise mess up, I feel like I knew what was going on, I knew the situation and just made a poor choice - versus feeling like I don't know why I died. I think this subtle 'accessibility through design' is going to help make this a pretty widely enjoyed game.
I noticed when playing the beta that next to no one used ingame voip which i thought was weird, but now you've emphasized the game sound design it makes sense that a lot of information is gathered without the need for talking and relaying so maybe thats why. Teamwork still depends on talking however...
Great video, Chris! I haven't played Overwatch but that was really interesting.
what a fun and informative video. hope to see more!
Tracer quotes one of the best character's best quotes in hearthstone.
Explain?
+da weeneer argent horserider says "don't worry lads the cavalrys here" when played its similar to a tracer quote I guess one references the other
+tom harding Elven archer and widow maker is another one "one shot, one kill".
+Aflay She is Jaraxxus, Eradar lord of the Burning Legion?
+Aflay It's actually just a common saying in England. Mostly said as a joke though. Like when someone starts white-knighting on some girl I might hear someone say "don't worry lads, the cavalry's here" and they laugh and watch him.
It was shown a little in the clips, but my favorite part about the sound design is how teammates call out to you. Both for things like status of turrets, but also direct combat. If you're being shot from behind, someone around you says "behind you!"
Now, typically, this would be done manually by other players, with a mic or voice command, but not everyone takes the time to do that.
I LOVE that you added in 3d sound to it :D
I like Tracer's accent too. XD
As someone who want to get into the industry after University, this was an awesome video. REALLY eye opening. I knew sound design was important, having played the old Thief games, but that "importance" system that weights the sounds differently is amazing.
Hey Chris!
I was curious about Blizzard's sound implementation tools - did they mention if they're using any existing game sound DAWs like FMOD or Wwise, or did they build their own tools? (Like the "importance" factor etc.) - Thanks!
+Tomas N. i'd would like to know also ! upvoted
They used Wwise
Thanks! This was really helpful!
I always wondered why I heard two different voice lines when the ultimates went off. Do you happen to have a list of the voice lines for each of the ultimates, and which one is friendly and which one is the enemy's?
Genji, Hanzo, and Mei speak their lines in their native tongue when enemies, and in English when allies. Presumably, Zayra does as well.
Pharah was already covered. McCree has the high noon line when an enemy, "Step right up!" when ally. 76 has "I've got you in my sights," and "Tactical visor, activated( ? )." Mercy says something involving "established," and as an ally has her actual signature line of "Heroes never die!" Symmetra seemingly doesn't have a line while she's an enemy - instead, it seems like a character on _your_ team has a line when she creates a teleporter, and they all have lines for when they actually find it.
The others most definitely have different lines, it's just that I haven't actually listened _to_ them as I'm too busy listening _for_ them.
Junkrat's as enemy: Fire in the hole!
As ally: IDK.
Roadhog lets out a laugh.
D.VA: Nerf this! *wubwubwub sound coming from mech*
Bastion: DOO WEE DOO WEEOW!
Tracer: "Too late!" or "You're out of time!" if stuck on an enemy. "Here you go!" or something for the ground.
Reaper: DIE, DIE, DIEEEEE!
Lucio: Let's break it - DOWN!
Zenyatta: Pass... into the iris./Experience... tranquility.
Widowmaker: No one can hide from my sights...
here you go, I found the most complete and accurate list:
gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/266926/what-are-all-the-friendly-and-enemy-ultimate-sounds
But even if you don't remember all the lines, you can still tell if its an enemy or ally, simply by how it sounds.
As a general rule, lines spoken in a character's native tongue are enemy lines, while the english translation is an ally line (this is the case for Hanzo, Genji, Mei, Mercy, Zarya, and Widowmaker).
If both lines are in english, then the enemy line will sound more aggressive/threatening, while an ally line will have more of a helpful/informative tone. Best example is Pharah's lines, but other notable examples are Reaper (ally says "clearing the area", enemy says "die, die, die!"), Soldier: 76 ("tactical visor activated" vs "I've got you in my sights"), and D.Va ("activating self-destruct sequence" vs "Nerf this!")
Not all characters follow this. Some just don't seem to have variants in lines, and I cannot for the life of me figure out why "let's drop the beat" is the line for an enemy Lucio, while the allied Lucio says "oh let's break it down!" Symmetra has no enemy line, and it's rather your teammates who point out the location of a teleporter. Bastion's enemy line is... louder, basically. and Winston just roars.
0:14 that hanzo freestyle xD
I find it really interesting how the system can affect plays in different ways. I had huge trouble when starting out with Overwatch because I couldn't accurately judge distance by sound volume and intensity. If footsteps are loud, it means they're close, but when they get amplified over other things in the mix, it sounds like they're closer than they actually are, especially if you see a teammate in front of you with quiet footsteps. Hearing the non-dynamic clip was actually easier for me since the volume is entirely based on distance.
This doesn't mean the system is bad in any way, I just probably need to get used to it. I have a very high spatial awareness, so dynamic volume really messes up my head.
Impressive video. Like you said in the video, many things you're doing on a reflex without thinking too much, but there lots of information deployed on the battlefield through sounds and especially in Overwatch being an all out shooter arena fight you need to listen carefully and try take advantage of this. However not every much is the same so sometimes you just do what you gotta do.
But yeah, Blizzard has some talent in crafting every aspect of game.
Now i understand how ultimates work. A lot of the time i'm having to press Tab to check whether the hero is on my team or not, I've also wondered why the dialogue on my screen sounds different from that is heard on the killcam. But now i know, i just need to learn the differences.
Great video Chris. I wish this stuff was appreciated more in gaming.
My favorite part of Overwatch's sound design is the barely-audible Ability Ready blip that sounds exactly the same for all your abilities.
In the showing of the clips it's surround sound. Use headphones.
I love how much detail is in this game, when I first played I instantly knew the audio sounded very different from other games and god it's so nice. They spent so much time fine tuning and making sure everything is in working order before the release. My only gripe with the game is the play of the game system, and Soldier 76 and Mcree are annoying.
Play of the game system needs to prioritize potential plays of the games that don't use an ultimate over ones that do because god, it's so boring watching a hanzo pressing q while facing the capture point :T Some ultimate plays of the game are cool, I just had one as mei where I froze the entire team on the cart and me and my team team wiped them. Twist though, that wasn't play of the game, a pharah got it for cancelling another pharah's ult and killing one person...
Prime example everyone: "It's high noon"
Me and friends: GUYS ITS HIGH NOON, RUN RUN RUN!!!
THE CLOCK HAS STRUCK!
Reinheart: *Pops shield*
My Reinheart: *Pops shield then flails wildly not knowing where McCree actually is*
I'm surprised you didn't mention anything about the dialogue and how they designed teammates to warn you of attackers behind you, or specialized dialogue when specific pairings of characters and maps happens.
This. It kinda blew my mind for a brief moment when I first realised that the "Behind you!" warning from a team mate, wasn't prompted by a player, and came from the "character" automatically. It still blows me away somewhat that a unorthodox feature like that has never once screwed me over or triggered falsely.
Overwatch sound is truly amazing. I was in this match where I kept hearing noises coming from my left (border of the map), and as I didn't know the map well, I was trying to figure out where the fight was. The sounds were so precise that I literally started picturing their positions in my head, and also the heroes involved. Then I realised I had the L-R sides wrong on my headphones lol
The first thing that I noticed about Overwatch was the sound design. Its audio is much cleaner than most other games and conveys very relevant information.
Is the volume of the footsteps really being lowered or is it just harder to hear with more stuff going on?
Awesome video btw! do more about sound in games!
check 4:50
You mean when Pharah says "Justice rains from abawwww"
OOOOO i wish i knew this, i was always wondering how to distinguish our ults from theirs
The Before clip at 6:46 sounded similar to a Call of Duty game to me, overwhelming you with noise
I definitely agree that everything in the After clip is a substantial improvement to the game
Very inciteful! great job!
As a Sound Designer it's great to see the main stream media talk about the topic, so thanks Brat! The only thing I want to add is that devs DON'T keep these techniques behind close doors. Infact I would argue the audio community is the most sharing when it comes to new tricks and techniques. It's just a not very sexy topic for most media outlets. If you check out any conference like GDC, develop ect the audio teams from the biggest studios are still sharing their latest findings from their last game.
Great video!
Out of all the amazing high-quality aspects of this game, the sound design is by far the most incredible to me. There's so much thoughtfulness put into every single line and the various decisions made to what plays when. I have never played a competitive game even close to this level of quality.
The Overwatch theme is one of my favorite theme's I've ever heard.
Very insightful.
I found myself cursing the sound cues when it was painfully easy for my rather low-health enemies just around the corner to hear Lucio's sick jams and roller skates....
I love the sound design in this game. People are so hardwired to react to things like the ultimate voice clips in particular, I rarely even hear Pharah say the full line anymore. Lots of games had plenty of "Justice rains from ab*AUGH*"
Teammates will also call out "Behind you!" when there's actually an enemy behind your character in their field of view. Saved my life a bunch of times when playing as Mercy.
Turrets aka tjorborns auto aiming turret and bastion the manual turret hero i found quite hard to notice especially in comparison to TF2.
As an aspiring sound designer, Blizzard is always SO completely on top of every aspect of their game. ESPECIALLY SOUND. Sound is often somewhat of an afterthought for most games, I feel. Seems like Blizz considers sound throughout the entirety of the design process.
How about insted of bastion chaning it an OP sentry he just changes in a grenade launcher sentry thing that fires Junkrats base damage grenades and his ultimate is that he gains 200+ armor and his gun changes into a machine gun?
I was under the impression that enemy Ults used multiple variants of the same line.
The same words, but with different inflections.
I thought I was the only one who thought the sound in this game is ducking great. It makes such a big difference in how good and reactive I play with my gaming headphones on vs just using my TV speakers. Especially the difference in the footsteps is awesome. I quickly know who it is just by their footsteps
Enemy Bastion ults : Beep Boop
Friendly Bastion ults : Boop Beep
lol
+A9OOlbGorrila Bastion actually plays the "Charge" fanfare sound on the enemy team.
Scorchy i know it was a joke.. the fact he only beeps and boops
You're not alone Chris, I quite like Tracer's fake British accent. Great video btw 😉
Well it's not fake considering the voice actor is from the UK.
theDamon2781 You said it yourself, she's a "voice actor". Just because she's British doesn't mean that the voice she uses for Tracer sounds at all cockney. She sounds like an American doing a 'bad' cockney accent, and that is almost certainly intentional. Like I said, I quite like it, but don't kid yourself into thinking it's an accurate cockney accent.
To TL;DR this video: It's basically Daredevil the videogame, and it's amazing how well it works.
Where'd you find info about the Importance System?
The game.
look up Overwatch GDC and find the one about sound. They explain it pretty thoroughly.
God dammit i knew Blizzard are WORKING on their games with love, but this is next level, i don't even know words in my main language to describe how much work they put into it to translate it to english.
Damn.
Just damn.
Yeah. All true. I play Lucio alot and "I got you in my sights" is in my nightmares now
+Vodac 120 Aimbot ultimate xD
brilliant video bratterz!
I find it weird how the "single line ult" applies to Mercy, because not only is the language entirely different, but also the voice feels a lot different, as if they used two voice actors
You also have to take into account that legendary skins may change the voice samples.
Grrr all this is doing is making me want to play it some more.....it is by far the best feeling fps ever. Everyone said that Destiny's shooting felt great and it was true probably the reason it stayed alive long enough to get anywhere. Overwatch is the next evolution in that design.
Visuals and sounddesign , 2 things which Overwatch does perfectly and Battleborn didn't care about , and here you can see why this is so important
Bastion isn't slower than most characters. The base speed for all the characters are the same except for Tracer and Genji being slightly faster (~10% faster).
Excilent video!
Does Junkrat have more than one ult line?
"The enemy has a tele-AARRRGGHH!!" Love it.
*"HEROES NEVER D-AAIIIIEEEEEE!"
"IT'S HIGH NOO-UUGRRHHH!"
"DIE DIE -BLARRGHH!"
"FIRE IN THE -WAAAHH!"
"JUSTICE RAI -AAAAGHHHH!"
"I HAVE TAKEN THE POINT! JUST TRY AND TAKE IT FROM M -GAAAHHHH!"*
I still laugh every time.
I feel like hanzos cue is the loudest if not one of the top 5 loudest (and it's also possibly the longest cue) lol
True, he takes a long time to pull his bow back. HOW HARD IS IT!?
IDK but its stupid magic :3 xD
Great video/article - someone buy Bratterz a pint. Maybe, MAYBE even a Sunday lunch.
>_>
Anybody else get reminded of Call of Duty during the "Before" video? Just noise coming from everywhere..
Oh my god , awesome
If what I read is true, tracer is not a "pseudo-brit", she is british, ( which shocked me, as it sounded a bit like she was putting it on, but she was I assume, putting on a more London accent, and she's from Yorkshire)
Overwatch's theme is the most hype thing ever.
You can tell when someone on your team isn't using the sound or listening to music or whatever.
They will have no awareness of their backline being killed and stuff.
"It's high n-!" "NO!"
At 2:17, that statement is wrong OK. The OP Bastion has the same line for your team and enemy team
No, it's the same for the player and the enemy, but the allied team hears a different sound and it's much much quieter. It's fairly hard to notice him doing it at all really.
Welcome to the FPS world, sound has been important since like EVER
great vid
The Before didn't even have the voice lines. Some comparison.
Very good analysis of a subtly powerful design choice. All game developers should take heed of this; it's a powerful tool for teaching players and enhancing a game.
Now if they'd just do that with the visuals somehow. :3