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Subject: Better Weapon Sound Effects?
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Who here hopes that Halo 2 PC has better sound effects than the original?

I hope Bungie just makes the guns sound like......real guns....For example, the SMG in Halo 2 sounds REALLY wimpy. They should just get a whole new sound effect for it.

The sniper rifle sounds okay, but it lacks that "BOOM", if you know what I mean. The Battle Rifle sounds good, I don't think they should change the sound. The shotgun is alright too.

[Edited on 6/22/2006]

  • 06.22.2006 7:21 AM PDT

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well maybe just make it sound like an SMG? I like the 9mm on hal... err goldeneye. I know they're different games, but the goldeneye one sounds good.

at least to me.

  • 06.22.2006 7:27 AM PDT
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Posted by: ImSpartacus
well when u think about it, the smg is a perty wimpy gun


It's better than the BR if you have two of them and you're at close range.

  • 06.22.2006 7:32 AM PDT
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Halo 2 is all about who can out snip the other.....which is stupid. And all i here when i go to these Lan partys is picbleww and the echo of the sniper!! it makes me angry!!

  • 06.22.2006 7:51 AM PDT
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Apparently none of you have ever fired a shotgun. (no offense) It goes BOOM not the kinda wimpy thing it is in Halo2. It should be almost as loud as teh sniper rifle in my opinion. In fact, all the weapons should be louder.

  • 06.22.2006 7:53 AM PDT

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to me, I think the halo 2 shotgun sucked. The halo pc/xbox shotgun kicked serious ass. To me, it looks like the halo 2 shotgun's barrel was cut down, to like a sawed-off shotgun, but the halo 1 barrel looks longer. Maybe it's an illusion o_O ?

  • 06.22.2006 7:57 AM PDT
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I believe you should be able to actually here the SR and the SG from a pretty far distance. I dont know if you guys have ever heard gun fire, but its pretty loud

  • 06.22.2006 8:12 AM PDT
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Posted by: fastmatt
well maybe just make it sound like an SMG? I like the 9mm on hal... err goldeneye. I know they're different games, but the goldeneye one sounds good.

at least to me.


Ah, Goldeneye. One of the best FPSs evah.

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Apparently none of you have ever fired a shotgun. (no offense) It goes BOOM not the kinda wimpy thing it is in Halo2. It should be almost as loud as teh sniper rifle in my opinion. In fact, all the weapons should be louder.


did i say the shotgun in Halo 2? no, i said the H2, as in H2 new mombasa shotgun, it does go BOOM, and to be frank a 50 calibur sniper rifle makes one hell of a BOOM, i doubt you've ever fired one.


Actually, the sniper rifle in Halo is a 14.5mmx114mm Armor-Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding Sabot round.
Which is approximitly .577 caliber, or roughly flippin' HUGE.

  • 06.22.2006 8:19 AM PDT

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someone knows their halo, and why the hhell is my backspace key not working? piece of -blam!-!

  • 06.22.2006 8:58 AM PDT
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Posted by: fastmatt
someone knows their halo, and why the hell is my backspace key not working? piece of -blam!-!


Thanks! I keep the Halo manual close to my Mac, and I have this book and this book. Great reads.

I read your other thread about your keyboard, and the only thing I can reccommend is a new keyboard. :(

  • 06.22.2006 9:11 AM PDT

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Posted by: someguy
Apparently none of you have ever fired a shotgun. (no offense) It goes BOOM not the kinda wimpy thing it is in Halo2. It should be almost as loud as teh sniper rifle in my opinion. In fact, all the weapons should be louder.

Maybe spartans have hearing protection built into their helmets.

  • 06.22.2006 10:03 AM PDT

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yeah I switched through 4 different keyboards, all work, sometimes they have a dee dee dee moment. It has to be my computer.

Yeah I think the sniper should be hella loud, I wanna scare the covenant!

  • 06.22.2006 10:54 AM PDT
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Posted by: someguy
Apparently none of you have ever fired a shotgun. (no offense) It goes BOOM not the kinda wimpy thing it is in Halo2. It should be almost as loud as teh sniper rifle in my opinion. In fact, all the weapons should be louder.

Maybe spartans have hearing protection built into their helmets.

Hearing protection seems logical, but I think that game developers just lower the volume of weapon sounds just so you don't blow out your eardrums when you play the game.

I hope H2PC supports X-fi. That would be awesome.

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  • 06.22.2006 12:08 PM PDT
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yeah that would be sweet
Here is my list of wich guns should be loudest from loudest to quietestr:
1: sniper
2: rocket launcher
3: shotgun
4: battle rifle
5: SMG
note: i did not include any covenant weapons because they are aliend guns and i have no idea how loud they should be

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  • 06.22.2006 4:32 PM PDT

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They arn't updating the game, they are porting it. If anything you will loose some of the grafical features, and they won't be changing the SP part of it, or any of the tags used in sp.

Like HPC, you will probably get a new weapon or vehicle to use, not much more.

  • 06.22.2006 4:58 PM PDT
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Posted by: Masterz1337
They arn't updating the game, they are porting it. If anything you will loose some of the grafical features, and they won't be changing the SP part of it, or any of the tags used in sp.

Like HPC, you will probably get a new weapon or vehicle to use, not much more.


Lose some of the graphical features? Halo 2 Vista will be using DirectX10, so I seriously doubt the graphics would be worse than the Xbox version's.

  • 06.22.2006 5:02 PM PDT

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It uses DX10, but you do not need a Dx10 card, meaning some features of DX10 will probably be lost. Even with the maximum requirements of halopc, which were capable of all xbox grafics, some where still removed. (covie shields, teleporters, fog effects, jackal shields)

  • 06.22.2006 5:19 PM PDT