Thanks for the kind words guys, I'm glad you like the mod.
@Thor
Your dream has come true! I fixed the ground explosions along with a few other things. You can finally hear the ground explosions when you drop your bombs as well as fire your rockets. I am in the process of testing, but so far it sounds great. This will be in (Battle_Sounds_v2) as well as a few other fixes. I should be done testing soon.
Slikk
Thanks Slikk,
Most wonderful, keepers for sure--great job !!!!
cheers--rclark--
Fun mods, but the flak is all wrong in terms of realism. By all accounts, flak bursts exploding only 30 or 40 feet from a B-17 could still barely be heard by the flight crew. Beyond 50 feet or so it was pretty much inaudible. With this mod flak bursts can be heard loudly from hundreds of feet away.
In addition, the explosion effects -as great as they look- are far more unrealistic than the stock version. IRL, flak explodes with only a small, brief fireball in the center of the smoke cloud. The mod has the fireball larger than the cloud itself, outside the cloud, and lasting too long. Furthermore, the crimson clouds created by certain shells are now black. Oleg has it close to proper. Please don't take this as a dis; I'm only attempting to offer some constructive criticism. As I said, fun mods, just not very realistic.
Much respect.
"To see the angry, red center of some of the [flak] explosions meant that they were very close. To hear flak explode, it had to be within fifty feet of our plane, otherwise the very loud engine noise would drown out the noise of an explosion farther away. Likewise, to feel a jolt from a flak explosion, it would have to be within twenty-five feet or less from the plane." ~From "25 Milk Runs" by Richard Johnson.
"Keep in mind the residual noise of the 4 large engines and the air rushing noise transmitted through the un-insulated skin. That noise overcame almost every other sound. To speak to another crew member, without using the interphone, one had to yell directly into his ear.
The only flak noises I heard were very close hits that sounded like a whump or some times a wham. I don't recall any other sound from flak generally." ~Bob Gilbert, Ball Turret Gunner, Goldin crew, 381st Bomb Gp., 533rd Bomb Sq. US 8th Air Force
"[Flak] exploded in daylight with puffs of black smoke with little red interiors, and made muffled "krumppp" sounds (due to the high levels of noise in the Allied bombers). At night they flashed quickly yellow or red and dissappeared." From the website, Canadian Air Aces and Heroes
These are only a few examples of the countless descriptions of flak bursts during WWII. There is tons of footage of flak explosions available to witness for oneself the quick flash of fire within the center of a dark cloud which bursts outward and upward, ultimately mushrooming into something resembling a humanoid figure with arms, legs, and a large head.:wink:
...but this mod doesn't simulate a flash of light; it simulates a large fireball. :wink: :wink:
Whatever the case, it's a fun mod and people like it. That certainly makes it worth the effort the modders put into it.
hey Slikk, the link for battle sound is dead...
@pehung
This version of the mod is out of date.
Go here, this is the latest version...
viewtopic.php?t=16137&highlight=battle+sounds
Slikk
