the Crazy Un-Called-for Sound Encore BUG, MAN!!!
Posted: November 30th, 2010, 2:10 am
I wonder if this isn't just a thing with the 1.05 beta, since I don't recall ever encountering this before . . . well, honestly, I would've remembered. (This is the Mac version, by the way.)
First, a disclaimer so nobody will hurt me: I love atmosphere sound. Who needs game music, after all, when you have atmosphere sound? Bergman knew this, Spielberg still doesn't. But... sometimes I want to listen to music (eh... CDs, I mean) when I play, which means turning the stereo up and turning off the game's atmospheric sound.
But... when I turn off the atmosphere sound, switch to another program and then switch back: the atmosphere sound will return at 100%, full blast through the speakers I just turned up (well -- turned the stereo up, that is), and I don't always have too easy a time getting rid of it.
Sometimes I'm more fortunate, in that when I go back into Options, sometimes all I have to do is click on the zero% given after "Atmosphere Sound", to reaffirm its zero-ness I guess, and the game shuts up. But sometimes when I then go back to playing, the atmosphere sound comes on again, really annoyingly LOUD.
I mean: for some reason the game decides to turn the atmosphere sound all the way up to 100%. Talk about rude, man.
If just clicking on the 0% doesn't work, I click up to 10% and then back down to 0%, which sometimes works.
But sometimes nothing works, the game just keeps on blasting Atmosphere at 100% while I'm trying to listen to music, so I have to shut off the music and turn down the sound, close down the game, start it up again and then go back into the Options and try to fix it... eventually I'll get it fixed.
But, really... does anyone else have this problem? Do they find it at least as really really annoying as I do?
Just as a note: it's not just when I switch over to iTunes that this happens: it happens when I switch from the game into any other program -- even the Finder -- and then back again.
But... on a lighter note... .
Has anybody ever noticed that if you set your OS's dock to a very specific size, and Eschalon is right next door to Eschalon Book II -- in Western sequence -- and you roll your mouse cursor over from Eschalon to Eschalon Book II... well, you'll see no movement in the name: all you'll see is "Book II" being added on.
I'm so deprived of cool that I thought this was cool.
First, a disclaimer so nobody will hurt me: I love atmosphere sound. Who needs game music, after all, when you have atmosphere sound? Bergman knew this, Spielberg still doesn't. But... sometimes I want to listen to music (eh... CDs, I mean) when I play, which means turning the stereo up and turning off the game's atmospheric sound.
But... when I turn off the atmosphere sound, switch to another program and then switch back: the atmosphere sound will return at 100%, full blast through the speakers I just turned up (well -- turned the stereo up, that is), and I don't always have too easy a time getting rid of it.
Sometimes I'm more fortunate, in that when I go back into Options, sometimes all I have to do is click on the zero% given after "Atmosphere Sound", to reaffirm its zero-ness I guess, and the game shuts up. But sometimes when I then go back to playing, the atmosphere sound comes on again, really annoyingly LOUD.
I mean: for some reason the game decides to turn the atmosphere sound all the way up to 100%. Talk about rude, man.
If just clicking on the 0% doesn't work, I click up to 10% and then back down to 0%, which sometimes works.
But sometimes nothing works, the game just keeps on blasting Atmosphere at 100% while I'm trying to listen to music, so I have to shut off the music and turn down the sound, close down the game, start it up again and then go back into the Options and try to fix it... eventually I'll get it fixed.
But, really... does anyone else have this problem? Do they find it at least as really really annoying as I do?
Just as a note: it's not just when I switch over to iTunes that this happens: it happens when I switch from the game into any other program -- even the Finder -- and then back again.
But... on a lighter note... .
Has anybody ever noticed that if you set your OS's dock to a very specific size, and Eschalon is right next door to Eschalon Book II -- in Western sequence -- and you roll your mouse cursor over from Eschalon to Eschalon Book II... well, you'll see no movement in the name: all you'll see is "Book II" being added on.
I'm so deprived of cool that I thought this was cool.