Sound of sinking ships question

tedhealy · 03-31-08, 12:30 AM

Shouldn't I be able to pick up the sound of a ship sinking and breaking up on the hydrophone? I can 'fly' over close to a sinking ship with the free camera and hear the groaning sounds as a ship is sinking, but I can't pick that sound up on the hydrophone as the ship goes down.

So my question is, am I missing something or was this never in SH4? I'm coming back from a 3+ month break from SH4 and I thought I remember this being in the game...but perhaps I'm imagining things or the memory is failing

...running RFB, NSM, RSRD, PE2

...picking thru the sound files, I see Scufundare vapor_hyd is there and that is the sound I am trying to hear on the hydrophone, but I never hear it. I do hear the non hydrophone version when I move the free camera next to the sinking ship though.

MONOLITH · 03-31-08, 04:51 AM

I noticed the exact same problem the other day. I'm running no other mods, just testing sounds. I had never noticed this before now; but I suspect someone is going to tell us this is a bug since the beginning.

EDIT: Oh, I didn't test this yet, but I have one theory that the hearing range of that sound might be limited in distance. How close are you to the sinking vessel when listening? I'm going to set up a test where I am right on top of it and see if i can hear it.

WhiskeyBravo · 03-31-08, 05:00 AM

I was within 700 yds of a sinking Maru the other day. I listened on the sonar but could hear nothing. However, the green light came on matching the bearing of the ship going down but that was all I got.

WB.

MONOLITH · 03-31-08, 05:06 AM

Yeah. I get the green light too. But not the sound.

Really unfortunate, because I'm attempting to do a lot of playing with sonar only type strategies and hearing a vessel going down plays an important role.

Dowly · 03-31-08, 05:08 AM

There's 2 sounds for anything, the one you hear when you are in freecam, bridge, periscope etc. and the one you hear via hydrophone. My guess is that SH4 doesnt have the hydrophone sound for sinking ships.

vickers03 · 03-31-08, 05:10 AM

maybe increasing range in SH3.SDL helps:hmm:

Dowly · 03-31-08, 05:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vickers03

maybe increasing range in SH3.SDL helps:hmm:

If there isnt sound for the hydrophone, you wont hear it. Doesnt hydrophone mute out any other sound except the ambient sound for the station and whatever you hear thru the hydrophone, which, AFAIK, only picks up sounds that are made for the hydrophone.

EDIT: I just checked, and there is infact the hydrophone sound for the sinking ships, so that's not the case.

Nisgeis · 03-31-08, 05:06 AM

There is something odd about the sound of SH4. I don't get a sound of sinking on the hydrophones, but I do with the free camera. As far as I remember, there's no sound of ships burning either, even if you pull a 'Tales of the Unexpected' with the camera, but pools of burning fuel oil do have a sound.

03-31-08, 12:30 AM	#1
tedhealy Grey Wolf Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: St. Louis, MO, USA Posts: 772 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Sound of sinking ships question Shouldn't I be able to pick up the sound of a ship sinking and breaking up on the hydrophone? I can 'fly' over close to a sinking ship with the free camera and hear the groaning sounds as a ship is sinking, but I can't pick that sound up on the hydrophone as the ship goes down. So my question is, am I missing something or was this never in SH4? I'm coming back from a 3+ month break from SH4 and I thought I remember this being in the game...but perhaps I'm imagining things or the memory is failing ...running RFB, NSM, RSRD, PE2 ...picking thru the sound files, I see Scufundare vapor_hyd is there and that is the sound I am trying to hear on the hydrophone, but I never hear it. I do hear the non hydrophone version when I move the free camera next to the sinking ship though.

03-31-08, 04:51 AM	#2
MONOLITH Grey Wolf Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 997 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I noticed the exact same problem the other day. I'm running no other mods, just testing sounds. I had never noticed this before now; but I suspect someone is going to tell us this is a bug since the beginning. EDIT: Oh, I didn't test this yet, but I have one theory that the hearing range of that sound might be limited in distance. How close are you to the sinking vessel when listening? I'm going to set up a test where I am right on top of it and see if i can hear it. __________________

03-31-08, 05:06 AM	#4
MONOLITH Grey Wolf Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 997 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Yeah. I get the green light too. But not the sound. Really unfortunate, because I'm attempting to do a lot of playing with sonar only type strategies and hearing a vessel going down plays an important role. __________________

03-31-08, 05:00 AM	#3
WhiskeyBravo Gunner Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Suffolk, UK Posts: 96 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	I was within 700 yds of a sinking Maru the other day. I listened on the sonar but could hear nothing. However, the green light came on matching the bearing of the ship going down but that was all I got. WB.

03-31-08, 05:08 AM	#5
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,052 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	There's 2 sounds for anything, the one you hear when you are in freecam, bridge, periscope etc. and the one you hear via hydrophone. My guess is that SH4 doesnt have the hydrophone sound for sinking ships.

03-31-08, 05:10 AM	#6
vickers03 Pooped from posting Join Date: May 2007 Location: germany Posts: 999 Downloads: 712 Uploads: 37	maybe increasing range in SH3.SDL helps:hmm:

03-31-08, 05:06 AM	#8
Nisgeis Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2,909 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 11	There is something odd about the sound of SH4. I don't get a sound of sinking on the hydrophones, but I do with the free camera. As far as I remember, there's no sound of ships burning either, even if you pull a 'Tales of the Unexpected' with the camera, but pools of burning fuel oil do have a sound.