[About sound effects in the vacuum of space:] Will it be realistic and there be no sound effects at all? Or will it be more like Star Wars or Star Trek, with lots of pews and booms?asked by McQueen
TL;DRDefault sound is expected to be Star Wars/Star Trek style effects; a realistic silent-space option might be easy given the audio setup and will be investigated, but isn't promised.
Yeah, there's a volume switch on your computer. No, sorry, I don't mean to. So actually, I don't know. It's an interesting question. We sort of treat the sound... We have interior sounds and exterior sounds that's already set in the engine right now. So, thinking about it, potentially, I'm not going to promise it, but that would actually be something that could be an option that someone does. I mean, I think the default is going to be like Star Wars or Star Trek, where you have all the cool pew pew sound effects. But it may not be that difficult actually to have a realistic space sound button on it. I won't promise it yet. But I think our audio, the way it's set up, it would be actually fairly simple to do. So we'll definitely investigate that. But like I said, I think the fantasy of Star Citizen is much more in the Star Wars, Star Trek mode. And so that's the vibe and the feel we're going for. Because after all, our space combat is at speeds that are not realistic for what space combat would probably be in the future. But it's a hell of a lot more fun. Because who wants to target your enemy on a computer and see whether you've blown them up a thousand miles away? You'd much rather shoot them down dogfight style. So that's kind of what we're doing. But we'll investigate that.