Quote Originally Posted by Valic View Post
This is also assume the sounds we had were all just one sound file in itself. When studios make audio, they are playing with multiple files at once they put together to make one whole skill. They make the boom of an explosion, the sounds of mechanisms working that may be the sound of a jar of screws being rattled, they make the thin slashing sound a sword makes by scraping metal together. Each of these is recorded individually and put together by the end of it in a program. All they would need to do is go back to the original steps of their audio with this job, and take the audio portion that was "the boom" of each skill, and raise its volume, which is definitely do-able with audio software.

I'm not at all saying anything that would be individually done by our hands or in game. I'm asking they take what we originally had for SFX, and adjust the thing that people had an issue with, the explosion half... not the sword slash half. Which is very do-able within their realm of development. This wouldn't even be relevant to game code, they'd have to modify the sounds they started with from the get-go, complete the sound file for the skill, meld it all together, save it, and then shove it into the game in a patch.
I'm trying to point out that doing so (and tuning it to sound good) is nearly as much work as making new sound effects which is why they didn't have a new set for either patch 5.05 or 5.08. The audio team having the release sound set and reserve sound set to change to in 5.01 took a fair amount of work even if they can easily rebuild the sound effects from preexisting sound libraries. It is not a question of "Can it be done?" It is a question of "How much time will it take while doing other audio stuff as well?"

Turning up the volume on the explosion sounds is much easier said than done and we were likely spoiled a bit by them having an already prepared alternate sound set for Gunbreaker. 5.01 sound changes were an anomaly and most future sound effect changes are likely to happen during major patches rather than minor ones.