Hearing a weird beep sound

[BlueDon7779]

When I was playing recently, this has happened multiple times when I have played previously , not just the session I was playing in. I was hearing a weird beep sound just when I was sneaking around and would like to know what it means or is. I would sneak around and hear it, then about ten seconds later I might hear it again. Its sounds more like a bop than a beep, and I am pretty sure that it did not come from any machine.

[SniperGirl]

Hmm? Are you in the same close area when you hear it? Hunters like to make a single bop noise when they are just "sleeping" but it kind of echos sightly. Ticks make clicking noises and runners howl, sort of. You can use sound to find bots!

Hope you discovery your noise!

[DrBullwinkle]

I have been wondering the same thing.

It is not a machine sound, nor is it a normal sound that can be heard elsewhere in the game. It is a very faint blip, as though the game is signaling something. I notice it when it is quiet and I am just sneaking around, as the OP says.

I wonder whether it might indicate crossing a zone border of some kind, or whether something noteworthy comes into range, but I have not been able to associate the beep with anything.

[Trouser_Dune_Worm]

It's a sound bug/glitch that has been in the game forever....I know exactly what you are talking about and I've even seen videos of it before. It's not any kind of machine sound, or in game sound or anything...just some random sound file that is still in the game for some reason. I wish it would make that sound right before a machine is about to teleport into your house you are taking cover inside.

[BlueDon7779]

Thanks, now I kind of know what it is, and don't have to freak out every time I hear it.

[DrBullwinkle]

Originally posted by Trouser_Dune_Worm:

I wish it would make that sound right before a machine is about to teleport into your house you are taking cover inside.

LOL. Perfect.

(I usually notice the teleported machines when I get suddenly blown up. It does not take long to notice that it happened.)

(I kind of like the teleporting machines. Between that and gas and some kinds of ordinance, it means that nowhere is entirely safe. That is as it should be, IMHO.)

I was kind of hoping the beep would mean something important. Like, "there is a schematic nearby" or something. But, yeah, "bug" sounds more likely.

[MattWard]

I've heard this before and it usually happens after I've been playing for long amounts of time or after a very large and noisy battle.

[Kaihlar]

I found I often hear this noise when a seeker is not exactly in range but shadow detects me. They seem to be able to know where you are without being in detection range before you can hear then flying nearby.

Eventually they start the normal beeping sound.

[ATOMIC]

I too have wondered about the mysterious blip. It almost sounds like a digital watch. It doesn't happen very often. I only hear it once every few hours of playing, although I suppose it could happen more often and I just don't hear it because of other things going on. I don't think there is something specific that triggers it and I don't think it was something intended to be (it's just too short and too quiet to be used as a way to alert the player of something). I think it's just an ambient sound or perhaps the end of some ambient sound file that wasn't clipped properly. That blip had me looking around in circles the first few times I heard it, but now I know to just ignore it.

[UCEY]

I think Seekers make beeping sounds

[Carni]

It would be immensely helpful if you could record that sound with shadowplay or something similar, upload it to youtube and let us listen to it:)

[DrBullwinkle]

Originally posted by Carni:

It would be immensely helpful if you could record that sound with shadowplay

I thought of making a recording, but it is not a repeatable sound. It would require recording for hours before catching it.

However, I see that Shadowplay has an "instant replay" feature. If that records a moving window of time, then maybe we could catch it with that. I'll give it a try.

[DrBullwinkle]

Originally posted by Carni:

It would be immensely helpful if you could record that sound with shadowplay or something similar, upload it to youtube and let us listen to it:)

Here you go: Weird Blip Sound

[Ogre420]

Isn't that an alert that you are coming into/out of the cone of vision of a robot?
I forget which skill does that (Or was that another game?)

[MaikElPipas]

yeah I heard that sound yesterday lol weird....maybe is just some easter egg.

[BlueDon7779]

yeah, that's the sound, I wonder if it has a purpose or not.