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What are you personally looking forward to the most about Star Citizen?

TL;DRMartin Galway is most looking forward to dogfighting with fully surround explosions, where shrapnel and wreckage fly past you and bodies thud when you bump them.

Martin GalwayDirector of Audio

I think, well, I have a great badass sound setup and I'm really looking forward to being in a dogfight, and I would say hearing shrapnel and pieces of the ship you just blew up fly from front to back as you fly through the explosion cloud. A lot of older games just have an explosion sound. It's kind of a mono wave file. It plays over there; the explosions over there are right in front. But our explosions are going to be fully in surround and full of little shrapnel-y bits that kind of tinkle and fizz. The ship's still on fire, basically. Whatever the remnants are of the ship you just blew up will kind of fly past you if you keep flying on straight through the explosion. So if you bump into a body, it's going to give a thud. There'll be music and lots of other sound effects going on, but it'll be nice to really get visceral with explosions.

Wingman's Hangar›ep018 . April 26, 2013·
Published on this date.26 Apr 2013
EpisodeAudioShip combat