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I usually play with the sound off, so my parents don't know.

I play all my N at school, so as not to waste real time. Sound off.

Rhekatou wrote:I usually play with the sound off, so my parents don't know.

Use headphones. I don't play it sound on, I usually listen music while playing. But if not, I play it sound on with/wthout headphones.

I play with the sound off. Mainly because I'm too lazy to press TAB everytime the sound bug rears its ear-wrenching, annoying head.

I play with the sound on a low volume and music in the background. I'm too much of a sucker for the sound of gold to mute it entirely.

I used to play it with sound, but now I just listen to music to often to change the volume every once in a while.

It's much harder to play against chaingun drones if you can't hear their starting up noise first. Nah, it's sound for me.

Even so, I'm not as focused if I can't play with sound, for any game.

Sound off.
I'd rather have my music playing in the background. When a particularly hard level comes along, I might change the song to something that gets me in the mindset of kicking some drone ass. :D

Pheidippides wrote:I play with the sound on a low volume and music in the background. I'm too much of a sucker for the sound of gold to mute it entirely.

Woo, evened out the poll.

Technochocolate wrote:It's much harder to play against chaingun drones if you can't hear their starting up noise first.

Very good point. Although I spend most of my time in NED. And boy, when that sound glitch starts, i wanna tear my ears off. I play sound off with metal blasting. xD

Radium wrote:

Technochocolate wrote:It's much harder to play against chaingun drones if you can't hear their starting up noise first.

Very good point. Although I spend most of my time in NED. And boy, when that sound glitch starts, i wanna tear my ears off. I play sound off with metal blasting. xD

If you're a decent player -I am- you don't need sound. Though, it's same for me with sound or soundless, I can predict when chainguns will shoot, and it's usually true.

I really like to hear the starting up noise so that I know exactly when they shoot. It's an important hand-ear coordination for me. It's usually not predictable; sometimes there's a short delay. Sometimes the split second can decide whether the chaingun will shoot going left or right.

Tunco123 wrote: If you're a decent player -I am- you don't need sound. Though, it's same for me with sound or soundless, I can predict when chainguns will shoot, and it's usually true.

TechnoChocolate wrote: It's usually not predictable; sometimes there's a short delay. Sometimes the split second can decide whether the chaingun will shoot going left or right.

Tunco: TechnoChocolate has it pretty much right. I kind of doubt your ability to accurately predict how and when the chainguns will fire. Just about every level I've played extensively that features them, I end up about 75% of the time that it fires in one direction, or at one time, but the other 25% of the time it goes at either a different time, or in the other direction when I don't see what I did different. So, the sound of the chaingun is certainly important to me so I know when to jump or maybe even to stop jumping.

golfkid wrote:

Tunco123 wrote: If you're a decent player -I am- you don't need sound. Though, it's same for me with sound or soundless, I can predict when chainguns will shoot, and it's usually true.

TechnoChocolate wrote: It's usually not predictable; sometimes there's a short delay. Sometimes the split second can decide whether the chaingun will shoot going left or right.

Tunco: TechnoChocolate has it pretty much right. I kind of doubt your ability to accurately predict how and when the chainguns will fire. Just about every level I've played extensively that features them, I end up about 75% of the time that it fires in one direction, or at one time, but the other 25% of the time it goes at either a different time, or in the other direction when I don't see what I did different. So, the sound of the chaingun is certainly important to me so I know when to jump or maybe even to stop jumping.

I don't know, maybe it's just for me, maybe I'm exceptional.

That could be Tunco. Maybe I was a little harsh on my rebuttal there, and if so I apologize. I just know that I certainly can't predict it myself, so I like to play with the sound on. Same thing goes for tracking zap drones, I'm confused at why they sometimes track and sometimes not, when I think that I'm doing the exact same thing both times.

Whenever I do play I tend to turn the sound off so as to not desturb others in the area but if Im alone or not near anyone else then I turn it on to play with the sound so, I do both.

golfkid wrote:

Tunco123 wrote: If you're a decent player -I am- you don't need sound. Though, it's same for me with sound or soundless, I can predict when chainguns will shoot, and it's usually true.

TechnoChocolate wrote: It's usually not predictable; sometimes there's a short delay. Sometimes the split second can decide whether the chaingun will shoot going left or right.

Tunco: TechnoChocolate has it pretty much right. I kind of doubt your ability to accurately predict how and when the chainguns will fire. Just about every level I've played extensively that features them, I end up about 75% of the time that it fires in one direction, or at one time, but the other 25% of the time it goes at either a different time, or in the other direction when I don't see what I did different. So, the sound of the chaingun is certainly important to me so I know when to jump or maybe even to stop jumping.

You guys are noobs. Can't dodge a fucking bhaingun with sound off. Shame shame.

BionicCryonic wrote: You guys are noobs. Can't dodge a fucking bhaingun with sound off. Shame shame.

I can, it's just harder. There are some tough chaingun maps out there, man. Try beating this monster with the sound off on your first few tries.

Technochocolate wrote:

BionicCryonic wrote: You guys are noobs. Can't dodge a fucking bhaingun with sound off. Shame shame.

I can, it's just harder. There are some tough chaingun maps out there, man. Try beating this monster with the sound off on your first few tries.

Left part is idiotic. Other than that, I could finish the map.

Generally, I play with the sound off, but not because of choice. On Vista, my N lags slightly, even when on High Performance. The only way to remedy this is to disable the speakers while I'm playing it.

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Sound off, tunes up.

Like quite a few others, I listen to music with game sounds off. I've found the Portal credits song to be perfect while playing N. So calming.