"There's no sound in space!" is something we read almost daily on forums and in Shattered Horizon trailer comments. No sound seems like a cool idea at first, but its actually very hard to play an F...
"There's no sound in space!" is something we read almost daily on forums and in Shattered Horizon trailer comments. No sound seems like a cool idea at first, but its actually very hard to play an FPS without any audio cues - especially in zero gravity, where your opponents could attack from literally any direction.
In Shattered Horizon the player's space suit uses "audio simulation". The idea is that your suit recreates a soundscape based on sensor information of the surrounding environment and detected threats. Audio simulation becomes an essential tool for situational awareness and self-preservation.
Even so, during the closed beta several testers kept asking for a "hardcore mode" with no sound. This inspired a new feature, Silent Running that lets you power down your suit and disable the audio simulation to gain a stealth advantage while sacrificing radar, HUD and maneuverability. This feature video shows silent running in action.
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You hear the sound of the tap dripping because there's an atmosphere for the ocillations to vibrate in. In space, we're not so fortunate. We might hear the sounds that the insides of the suit makes when it gets squished, etc. But the gunfire, and probably most of the squishing sounds'd be too low to hear. The gunfire particularly, as 99% of the sound from that isn't transmitted through solids.
regarding the temperature in space i bet that any steel made conventional weapon would freeze and on the first or second shoot would just fragment itself,... if it manages too shoot
You think that in a space suit... in outer space... with no sound ANYWHERE... you would not be able to detect the sound of your gun vibrating against your suit when you fire it?
I think it would be kind of like the way you can hear a tap dripping or the clock ticking at night because there's no other sound.
Vibrations would be transferred from the area of impact to the air within the suit, which would carry it very quickly to the user's ears. It wouldn't have to go through the suit to the ears.
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Nobody cares it's awesome.
I think it would be kind of like the way you can hear a tap dripping or the clock ticking at night because there's no other sound.
IN SPAAAAAAAACE.