MONSTER KILL!!! Humiliation!

[Hawk]

Is anyone else confused at the gross infatuation with Unreal Tournament sounds that so many server admins seem to have? I don't know what it is, but for some reason they think we want to hear some obnoxious voice yell at us every time something significant happens in a match.

To make matters worse, I've sat around for 10 minutes waiting for some servers to dump a directory full of custom sounds onto my hard drive. And for what? So I can hear "Banana Phone" before the match starts?

I don't know... tell me if I'm in the minority and everyone else loves to hear "UNSTOPPABLE!!!" in the middle of a game. But otherwise, I'd just like to say that I'm perfectly happy with just the default grumpy lady announcer. I think more servers should stick with it.

 

[Paria]

totally agree, can't be doing with ut/quake sounds - people who think you want to listen to their music/radio stuff, about the only thing that made me smile was a server that played the benny hill tune in sudden death melee mode - it seemed quite fitting .

 

[YM]

well on hl2dm I found it hillarious when it went "mu-mu-mu-mu-monster kill" but TF2 doesnt need it cos it already has its own sounds for dominating and revenge....

If you dont want to put up with tht crap just hit cancel when you see custom sounds loading and find a better server.... no big problem really there are 100s of proper servers that haven't got rediculous sounds

 

[Apex_]

As a server host I flat out refuse to use those stupid Quake/Unreal sounds. I stripped the default Beetlesmod package of all the custom sounds except the mapvote.wav (which I replaced with the Portal curiosity orb saying 'Where are we going?') and two of my own sounds related to teamkilling. Three sounds in all, rather than a whole folder full of junk that just takes up space and eats time while connecting.

Thankfully there's now an option on the multiplayer tab to block custom content from servers, so you don't have to put up with that garbage.

 

[Shmitz]

Does it block specific kinds of content? Like if I want to still download maps, but want to ignore the mp3s it wants to force on me.

 

[Pseudo]

Does it block specific kinds of content? Like if I want to still download maps, but want to ignore the mp3s it wants to force on me.

There are three options: Allow all custom files from server; Do not download custom sounds; Do not download any custom files.

 

[phatal]

Don't diss Unreal. UT is the grandfather of fps IMHO.

 

[Apex_]

Don't diss Unreal. UT is the grandfather of fps IMHO.

I'm not dissing Unreal, I'm dissing the annoying announcer that only fits in Unreal and NOT in Team Fortress. Playing cut and paste with content from other games doesn't make a server cool and for some people totally breaks the TF2 feeling having that over the top voice yelling kill milestones at them.

Nothing personal against any hosts who like those sound packs, you're entitled to use whatever sounds you like and I completely support that. I just can't stand that announcer voice and avoid it like the plague.

 

[Spike]

Totally agree with you

 

[Snipergen]

Agreed apex, have a thanks.