Fix the Challenger motor

[Daskre]

I thought it sounded like crap too, but then I put myself in the mindset of the show.
This car probably doesn't run on what we expect it too. These run off a different fuel and probably different engines.
They are just using dodge bodies. The engines would sound different.

Maybe it runs on petrohol (the fuel made from hellbug waste powering some of the quads). Maybe it runs on something different... but even if they have some clever reason why it doesn't sound like an original Challenger, there's no reason to make it sound worse. It's just a ridiculous sound and maybe something went wrong with the compression but I'd really like to see it replaced with something more oomphy sometime in the future.

[Yun]

Funny how people say it doesn't sound like it should which in this case would be correct. I think it's part of the lore of course a car isn't going to sound how one should in Defiance. The vehicles are now hybrids of old Earth tech with some Votanis tech so of course the engine isn't going to sound like one in real life.

[rextab]

Thanks. Couldn't remember the new fuel name. I agree it sounds bad. I was just coming up with a reason it doesn't sound like what we'd expect. It also explains why this thing isn't much faster than a 4 wheeler or a little dune buggy. It should be much faster by comparison I'd imagine.

[RoG Goat]

It handles like a yaris... and it sounds like a yaris.
What's the prob

[Conneri]

Remembered a great example of vehicle sounding way different in the future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKpa4xwVYZI

Around the 5:45 mark.

[Blackwolfe]

The fact is, unless the devs tell us, we have no idea how much resources/time such a change would take. We really don't know exactly how their teams are built up (they might have a team dedicated to sounds and all things audiorelated). Nor do we know how they organize things within the dev team(s).

Still, I would not mind better sounds for the challenger. They might have recorded the sounds from a real dodge challenger but it's certainly not the kind of sounds you'd hear from a dodge challenger that was actually driving..

[Cynical Jester]

Who cares what it sounds like !!.. Its not meant to drive anyway.. you just pull that sexy thang out in populated areas an sit in it.. like yea whats up..

[RoG Goat]

Who cares what it sounds like !!.. Its not meant to drive anyway.. you just pull that sexy thang out in populated areas an sit in it.. like yea whats up..

Yea, because no one else has one...

[Krileon]

Thanks for missing the point entirely. You and Foltheon just don't get it. It isn't a matter of how hard or how easy it is to fix something as silly as the sound of a vehicle in game. It is a matter of the resources needed to make the change.

The game has moved from the development phase into the maintenance phase and that means they don't have as many people currently working on it. So for every silly request like this that people make that would mean another issue would have to take a back seat while they work it.

My point is that i want them to fix the real issues before working on the fluff. Once they get those done then have at it, feel free to make silly sound file changes for a fake vehicle that has no real tie to an actual vehicle at all other than name alone.

No, I see your point and I agree entirely with your point. There are other more pressing matters then adjusting the audio that need attention. I was simply stating it doesn't take moving mountains to change an audio file like some here seam to think.

You are correct in that they take the least amount of time. However, in a software's lifecycle, correcting *any* bug post release is a huge amount of time compared to any point prior. Even small changes can easily eat up $1000 or more of man time. This is actually something you learn in school as a developer and is a required class in most CS programs.

This isn't a bug, it's an asset swap; there is no coding involved depending on how they implemented the audio and would only cost whatever their audio export would cost (I assume they've at least 1 on salary that they can put on his TODO list). So the time it would take is completely relative to their usage. So for arguments sake we're both right and leave it at that. I don't know how they've coded the game or how they run their business so we can really just leave it at that.. there is no 1 way to do things and the things they teach in those classes aren't relevant to the real world.. just like most classes as I've learned rather quickly after being in the industry.

As for the actual note of the engine, it's fine as is. These engines aren't standard 91 octane gas guzzlers with stock exhausts so they are going to sound different. My guess is the recording was done with a non-stock exhaust for this exact effect (if they used the car at all).

Not sure, am not a car person but this is probably right as the cars likely wouldn't sound the same in the future due to different fuel usages and exhaust changes. So lore wise it makes sense to not sound like the real thing.

[Blackwolfe]

Yea, because no one else has one...

*drives up to hot alien chick* Hey baby, want to take a ride?

*hot alien chick is unimpressed* I might live in a wasteland but I'm not THAT desperate.

But but but I've got this cool car you see *revs engine *

Yeah? So does my mother, brother and dog.. And those guys *hot alien chicks looks at the other 30 challengers driving around*

*shows a whole bunch of scrip*

Cool car, let's go for a drive.