What do you people think of halo 4s new sound effects such as Vehicle and Weapons?
Other than the BR sounding like an airsoft gun it’s pretty good.
I’m in between. Some sounds are amazing, like the promethean and human weapons. Then the covenant weapons are come-and-go for me. Some vehicle sounds are great, then others aren’t.
The quality is amazing, but the sounds themselves are either win or lose.
Meh, some are good and some are horrendous. The bad ones include the BR, and the warthog. The ones I like include the lightrifle, and Icannon.
They ruined the Covenant weapon and vehicle noises. Why would you use real life human weapons for alien weapons, regardless of any editing you may have done? They sounded perfectly fine in the previous games and had their signature noises that every Halo player who’s played CE - Reach knows and loves. The frag and plasma grenades sound silly, the Carbine sounds horrible, the Rocket Launcher sounds dreadful… the only changes I might like are the Assault Rifle (it sounds much better) and the DMR (I hate the sound from Reach). The Ghost and Warthog are horrible sounding as well now. The Banshee is alright.
> They ruined the Covenant weapon and vehicle noises. Why would you use real life human weapons for alien weapons, regardless of any editing you may have done? They sounded perfectly find in the previous games and had their signature noises that every Halo player who’s played CE - Reach knows and loves. The frag and plasma grenades sound silly, the Carbine sounds horrible, the Rocket Launcher sounds dreadful… the only changes I might like are the Assault Rifle (it sounds much better) and the DMR (I hate the sound from Reach). The Ghost and Warthog are horrible sounding as well now. The Banshee is alright.
you got a big point in there.
Some sounds are absolutely amazing (Assault Rifle, SAW) while others SUCK (Storm Rifle, PP, Stickies, Rockets, Pistol). 343 tried and succeeded in some areas, and failed really hard in others.
The Surpressor has a sound glitch where occasionally it will be incredibly loud and obnoxious, which is annoying, but I think most sounds are great, excluding the warthog. All it needed was to be made louder, not annoying as well. I can’t hear the H3 Warthog at all these days.
The Warthog sounds to me like a busted lawnmower trying to mow uphill.
As a car enthusiast, I think the Warthog sounds better. It actually sounds like it has an engine with rev cycles and everything. The old ones just sounded like a constant buzz.
Magnum sounds weak. 
Halo CE’s Magnum sounded like a cannon.
I like the boltshot sound. And the shotgun sounds nice as well.
It’s a mixed bag, but in general I like the new sound direction. Most audio is excellent, but some is severely lacking - a few examples;
Storm Rifle - has no “punch” to it. Ironically, my sound glitched the other day and it produced an extremely Plasma Rifle-like sound for a few seconds, and it felt awesome.
Plasma Pistol - same as above, and the overcharge sounds a bit empty as well.
Magnum - too trebly. It needs a layer of bass.
Footsteps seem insanely loud.
Grenades are too quiet/too tinny.
Where are the over-the-top death screams? Assassination struggling noises?
Covenant - aside from the fact that they don’t speak English, the Elite and Grunt speech sounds pretty lame.
Not to mention that there’s a few audio glitches present - oftentimes A) my Sword doesn’t make a noise when activated B) my weapon will play the corresponding 3rd person sound then abrubtly change back to the proper 1st person sound (sometimes playing an entirely different sound e.g. SR above) or C) audio will cut out entirely for a few seconds.
> As a car enthusiast, I think the Warthog sounds better. It actually sounds like it has an engine with rev cycles and everything. The old ones just sounded like a constant buzz.
You are probably right about the sound being more realistically in line with modern vehicles. Maybe it’s just my wacky brain that associates the old Warthog sound with victory while the new Hog engine acts like an air raid siren warning me of incoming explosions.
I like them, the Covie weapons now have more… punch to them.
The only sounds that I don’t like at all are the fuel rod, BR, SR, PP, and shade turret sounds. They all sound like they are broken.
I agree that the BR sounds bad, far too trebly and weak sounding. But how on earth can you not like the fuel rod cannon?!?! that thing sounds awesome.
> I agree that the BR sounds bad, far too trebly and weak sounding. But how on earth can you not like the fuel rod cannon?!?! that thing sounds awesome.
Honestly, I think it sounds like you’re shooting tin cans out of a cannon.
Most are very good. Others do not sounds so cool, but those are few.
I play with these awesome gaming headphones, and I get little shivers every time I use Forerunner weapons, especially the Binary Rifle. Its like there’s thousands of little Daft Punk gremlins inside it.
I like all of them except the BR sounds like a bunch of crickets.
IMO 343 really nailed sound in this game.
Warthog rev hurts my ears but it sounds powerful, and like an actual car. It also reminds me of myself playing some Forza! 