Remove "scary" ambient sounds

[MightyMorphinPowerRager]

So after all this years still no official way to turn off these annoying "scary" (lol) sounds?
when im playing for a few hours it REALLY starts to make me angry. the same few low quality "spooky" sounds AGAIN AND AGAIN. let me turn off this madness.

no - i dont want to fiddle with any game files, i want a checkbox that says "Turn off annoying sounds"

[Veeshan]

I'm in my first dozen or so hours, and everything sounds great. I actually noted the ambient sounds as especially well done.

[Johnny Boy]

+1. They don't necessarily need to remove them entirely, as I'm sure there are some who like them. But there definitely needs to be a disable option in the audio menu or something.

[JtDarth]

Yeah. the 'ambient' noises in this game don't really feel ambient. They do feel like, as someone compared it to earlier, someone following you around with a soundboard. I actively refuse to hang around the 'burned forest' biome because it's 'ambient audio' is just annoying.

That said, it's not as bad as the anomaly mod for STALKER's default ambience tracks. Those are LITTERED with actively misleading noises.

[kkitts]

Originally posted by MightyMorphinPowerRager:

So after all this years still no official way to turn off these annoying "scary" (lol) sounds?
when im playing for a few hours it REALLY starts to make me angry. the same few low quality "spooky" sounds AGAIN AND AGAIN. let me turn off this madness.

no - i dont want to fiddle with any game files, i want a checkbox that says "Turn off annoying sounds"

There is a way. Turn off all the ambient sounds and music, and turn on iTunes in the background. Then you can play AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" and still hear zombies growling as you blow them to hell.

Edit: There is nothing so contrapuntal as playing 7DTD while listening to the Vince Guaraldi Trio (the "Peanuts" soundtrack guys).

[Jesus Loves You]

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[Milly <3]

They was hinted to be the noise of native americans cursing the player years ago by the devs on the old forum.

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https://youtu.be/4gp2FoaPA54

[Lil Pinga]

I fully agree. When I'm playing at night, the noises are unbearable when I do anything, it already made me quite discouraged to play the game just because of this simple thing.

[Gamer]

People have been telling the Dev's to remove those sounds since about alpha 1.0. lol I'm sure they're going to finally decide to remove them after all these many years. I've grown old playing this game in Alpha.

[Midas]

Recently, I've had the music off in game and have been listening to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdT65M95LC8&list=LL&index=2&ab_channel=ResidentEvilPL

It's a playlist of various spooky ambiance from the Resident Evil series. If the devs want to have 'creepy noises', making it background music like this is how they should do it. This stuff is unnerving, but not distracting, and most importantly it's 'music' not 'ambiance', so you can turn it off without suddenly having all the other environmental sounds go with it.

[Aeroflux]

Please, remove "a_nightfall_oneshot0-6.wav" from the game or give us the opportunity to disable them!!!

[eclipse]

Originally posted by william_es:

I will agree that some of the sounds on the nighttime track are a little goofy, but if you've ever spent the night out in a wild place, you can hear WAY worse sounds.

Personally, foxes are the creepiest sounding things I've heard. Some of their vocalizations sound exactly like a crying human baby.

Oh, and owls. They can make noises that are pure nightmare fuel. Demon straight out of hell noises.

ive spent years in the woods at night and there are not very many sounds....i reckon this depends on where you live, southeast usa for me

bout only thing you hear at night maybe some owls, some critters or creatures rustling about

yes i agree remove the ambient sounds, they annoyed me the most
add more optional sliders

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by eclipse:

Originally posted by william_es:

I will agree that some of the sounds on the nighttime track are a little goofy, but if you've ever spent the night out in a wild place, you can hear WAY worse sounds.

Personally, foxes are the creepiest sounding things I've heard. Some of their vocalizations sound exactly like a crying human baby.

Oh, and owls. They can make noises that are pure nightmare fuel. Demon straight out of hell noises.

ive spent years in the woods at night and there are not very many sounds....i reckon this depends on where you live, southeast usa for me

bout only thing you hear at night maybe some owls, some critters or creatures rustling about

yes i agree remove the ambient sounds, they annoyed me the most
add more optional sliders

I'm in the midwest US, you do get some strange noises at night. Or at least, strange to those who don't know what they are. I still remember having to dance around the ACTUAL explanation for my younger cousins when we were camping and a pair of raccoons were mating in a nearby tree, sounding like a serial killer was torturing someone in the woods. Then you have the demonic coughs of deer and the various screeches of owls, which can be quite disturbing, depending on the type of owl.
I think the most 'horror-experience' noise I ever remember encountering was a mountain lion screaming in the middle of the night. They aren't normally in my neck of the woods, so it took me a bit of research to realize what it was I had actually heard.
Far more terrifying is being in the middle of the woods at night and having all the bugs and general shuffles of critters going about their business suddenly disappear. THAT is a special breed of unnerving, as it means that EVERYTHING in the area just got set on edge. Incidentally, the only time I had that happen was the same night I heard the mountain lion screaming, which makes me think I may have dodged a murder-kitty encounter by dumb luck.

[Cloud Breaker]

Originally posted by JtDarth:

Originally posted by eclipse:

ive spent years in the woods at night and there are not very many sounds....i reckon this depends on where you live, southeast usa for me

bout only thing you hear at night maybe some owls, some critters or creatures rustling about

yes i agree remove the ambient sounds, they annoyed me the most
add more optional sliders

I'm in the midwest US, you do get some strange noises at night. Or at least, strange to those who don't know what they are. I still remember having to dance around the ACTUAL explanation for my younger cousins when we were camping and a pair of raccoons were mating in a nearby tree, sounding like a serial killer was torturing someone in the woods. Then you have the demonic coughs of deer and the various screeches of owls, which can be quite disturbing, depending on the type of owl.
I think the most 'horror-experience' noise I ever remember encountering was a mountain lion screaming in the middle of the night. They aren't normally in my neck of the woods, so it took me a bit of research to realize what it was I had actually heard.
Far more terrifying is being in the middle of the woods at night and having all the bugs and general shuffles of critters going about their business suddenly disappear. THAT is a special breed of unnerving, as it means that EVERYTHING in the area just got set on edge. Incidentally, the only time I had that happen was the same night I heard the mountain lion screaming, which makes me think I may have dodged a murder-kitty encounter by dumb luck.

My complaint isn't those types of sounds its having them stuck on a very repetitive and predictable loop. Occasional birds or owl once in a great while no problem. Every night, yeah that gets stale quick. In a game like this where getting some audio cues can mean life or death every non ambient sound should correspond with an actual event / happening in the world. I enjoy the crickets and such.

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by Frost King:

Originally posted by JtDarth:

I'm in the midwest US, you do get some strange noises at night. Or at least, strange to those who don't know what they are. I still remember having to dance around the ACTUAL explanation for my younger cousins when we were camping and a pair of raccoons were mating in a nearby tree, sounding like a serial killer was torturing someone in the woods. Then you have the demonic coughs of deer and the various screeches of owls, which can be quite disturbing, depending on the type of owl.
I think the most 'horror-experience' noise I ever remember encountering was a mountain lion screaming in the middle of the night. They aren't normally in my neck of the woods, so it took me a bit of research to realize what it was I had actually heard.
Far more terrifying is being in the middle of the woods at night and having all the bugs and general shuffles of critters going about their business suddenly disappear. THAT is a special breed of unnerving, as it means that EVERYTHING in the area just got set on edge. Incidentally, the only time I had that happen was the same night I heard the mountain lion screaming, which makes me think I may have dodged a murder-kitty encounter by dumb luck.

My complaint isn't those types of sounds its having them stuck on a very repetitive and predictable loop. Occasional birds or owl once in a great while no problem. Every night, yeah that gets stale quick. In a game like this where getting some audio cues can mean life or death every non ambient sound should correspond with an actual event / happening in the world. I enjoy the crickets and such.

I'm not disagreeing with you. I'd personally love some more 'natural' sounds and staging for ambient noises. At the moment it feels like someone following you around with a soundboard, which is no good. But the main point of complaint for me is the obviously unnatural noises that are just out of place. They are worse than minecraft cave noises, since those at least act as an indicator of something.

[Nihil sub sole novum]

While I do enjoy reading these story's, the point of this discussion is that the random "ambient" Noises Don't sound like anything you'd every hear unless like that other commenter said, you're being followed around by a kid with a soundboard who's just pushing buttons whenever he's bored.