Weird bubble sound when joining servers?

[Raskolnikov]

So when I spawn in servers I hear this strange bubble sound, never had it before the update. Anyone know what it is? I hate the sound and it really bugs me.

[Dexious Emera]

It's always been there.

[Raskolnikov]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Dexious:

It's always been there.

Never had it before.

[Bacon Overlord®]

You're drowning underwater... that's the sound it's always made when you load into a server.

[Raskolnikov]

I've never had the sound before and I now want it gone.

[Raskolnikov]

It comes up when people get unfrozen in DarkRP too.

[Norda | GMod Addon Creator]

Two Update of Garry's Mod Yesterday. That explain why they are new problem. Maybe Just need wait the next patch. "I have never had the sound before" Me too.

All I have receive from my friends; I have juste the problem *2:

1- Some ugly freeze when you join the server.
2- Ugly Drowned sound when you join, (Maybe it's not a bug. Maybe it's what want Dev of Gmod...)
3- Fatal Crash with error called

... When you leave Sandbox to join another gamemode.

[Raskolnikov]

Okay so I found the name of the sound "player\pl_drown1.wav" that would be the sound. It plays on server join for some reason. Never done it before. Anyone know why? For now I made an addon that simply replaces it with nothing.

[Raskolnikov]

Anyone found the reason for this?

[Thlormby]

Hey, sorry for necromancing this thread. The cause of the sound is to alert the player (and other players) that someone has joined the game, and that they're finishing loading in.

I forget who told me this, so don't quote me on it, but someone who I talked to in the past told me that the sound means that something is wrong (loading in with an error, LUA stuff?) and that sound is an alert that source is automatically compensating for it.

I have no idea if that's true, but that's what I was told.

[lorjason34]

Only happens once for me. Could be a way to confirm a game_sound_manifest has worked or some other script like Wiremod.

[a straight white male]

"it's engine-side, it's when there's a desync between the client and the server time" - Wind, a prominent DarkRP dev and server owner
There seems to be no easy way to get rid of it - neither for you or the server.

For the devs like me in the future - I was offered two ways to solve this issue:

1. Override the pl_drown1.wav with a blank wav.
Advantages: easy
Disadvantages: you are messing with core gmod files - the blank file may cling onto user's gmod installation and disable the drowning sound throughout the whole game, not to mention the fact that drowning will for sure not make any noise at all on your own server.

2. Code-wise search for the sound (somehow) and stop it from playing with hooks and whatnot
Advantages: doesn't break anything
Disandvantages: i have no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ clue how to do it

Edit: made an addon that deletes the sound server-wise
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3405812972