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tweaking = gaining adventage without using exterior applications

The problem is, gamma/contrast/brightness were NOT implemented to make it so you can see better in a darker map. They weren't even implemented by the devs, just a left-over option from Unreal. They are purely there to adjust your monitor if it's not calibrated. If you use keybinds to change gamma/contrast/brightness per map, you should be banned. The devs and beta testers already did the hard work of testing all the maps and here comes a keyboard cowboy thinking he knows more than them. You don't.

Same for sound. Nothing wrong with you wanting better hardware but when you buy a sound card just to have an equalizer to destroy the quality (and your ears) to jack up the treble, you're basically pushing the envelope and your excuse is "well it's a setting, not a hack".

It's all bullshit. You all should be glad I don't make changes to Assist, you'd be pretty well fucked for all of these settings. If you're looking for an advantage to make up for your skills in a free game, just buy a hack. Quicker & easier and it will make you feel great.

Spanky
Do u use diffirent eq for music?to get best music experience?

No. I listen to audio the way the sound engineer designed it. He/she knows a lot more than I do. I don't have a fully neutral system so I'm not getting original quality/tone but I strive to listen to things as original as I possibly can.

In aao ppl use eq to get best gaming experience.
 Sound tweaks = sound settings TOTALY LEGAL CLEAN

Ppl who use macro graphic setings recoil ini mods and call it tweaks are basicaly cheaters.who just hide behind the word tweak

What I posted was info that with better soundcard better headphones and eq u hear more far and more details overall
U say that sc I recomended s shit nd some nonsence about sound quality.
With set I posted the quality will be better than onboard so whats ur point.
U should ve joined this thread with another concrete option.not with ur hate to xfi :-))

Sound tweaking is the same as graphic settings. The devs didn't design AA so that users would be forced to lower bass and raise treble. The guys that recorded and mastered the sounds for the game know more than all of us on this website combined not to mention their equipment is far superior. It annoys me (and is cheating) when people start adjusting things to gain an advantage when those settings aren't even meant for that in the first place.


krlz, AA has decent sound. The AA devs didn't do a super great job taking advantage of all the enviornmental effects but the quality is pretty nice. Most maps do have ambient sounds if you listen for them, they're not very loud but they are there. I have no problem with people wanting quality and in all honesty, the X-Fi was my first real audio device but looking back, they're overhyped garbage and that's all I'm trying to say. To suggest it because it will make you pwn is misleading. It might work great in AA but most modern games don't even care about X-Fi and Creative makes tons of money on those cards because the components are garbage. Since the XtremeGamer X-Fi, there hasn't been worthwhile things added, they just repackage and market a new model every other year. The SNR might be better but overall the cards are still crap when you compare them with good quality cards even from ASUS. No internal card will be as good as an external audio device due to the EMI/RFI inside of computers. I could go on and on but if you really care about quality, browse over to www.head-fi.org and see their Computer Audio section.

well, if I remember correct, creative dominated in the soundcard market while aa was popular, everyone had it,

I know it was popular. It was a VERY good technology for the day. A lot of games used it and it was supposed to be the future. Unfortunately for creative, CPU's got more powerful and devs opted to use software audio positioning and effects.

you didnt need to "tweak" anything in aa, just change the audio settings to hardware 3d, and put your bass down and treble up.

I think you just proved my point. People that do that are inherently lame and don't care about quality at all. Oddly enough, they don't care about their ears either.

buy a hack? i got my xfi xtreme gamer for 30$ from ebay, not so costly isnt it, tweakers/glitchers, all competitive players are using good sound and stable fps, yea sure its "unfair advantage"[/sarcasm]

You got a good deal then, unless it's an XtremeMusic model, those are like finding blood in the shit that is Creative. Competitive players are tweakers/glitchers and they know nothing about good quality sound. "Unfair advantage" may be a wrong term to describe that but it certainly is a waste of time and money if you seek everything that can make you a better player OTHER than actually playing the game. It's pathetic. It's saddening to think that so many people in AA use these excuses. Sure, I suck in AA but how much of that is because I play with high quality textures and all default settings? Fuck the tweakers that ruin this game.

Top notch Koden.

He also said Brightness and Gamma aren't an integral part of the game.

They aren't. Feel free to PROVE me wrong. To prove me wrong you would have to be an established designer (preferably having gone to school for it) with equipment as good or better than the AA devs (this is an issue because we don't know if they had IPS panels or calibrated screens) have and have issues with the game's graphics on default settings. Then and only then you would have a valid case.

Sound is obviously a very very important aspect of this game. Much like how in real life, how I can hear people walking and pinpoint which direction they are coming from. But I guess that part of the 'realism' escapes Spanky.

Again, I've already agreed on this point. I agree so much that I never enter VoIP servers while playing a game. It's an important aspect in a digitally immersive environment.

Who's to say that my soldier has very good hearing? Who's to say my soldier has better eyes and can see in the dark better than most? These are all very real traits that people inhibit

I can agree here. Genetics are different for everybody. I don't know what the percentage of variability is but I'm sure there's a testable difference. It also varies with age.

so I see nothing wrong with being able to tweak any settings that a user would want to.

Ah yes, it always comes back to an excuse to push the limits of tweaks and binds to get an advantage that someone else doesn't have. Here's the thing; tweaking audio settings, graphic settings and ini files are NOT part of military training. If there was a weapon attachment or device that picked up audio via directional mic or ultrasonic sounds that required training and settings adjustment then you might have a valid argument. Unfortunately, your argument fails at the point where you use it as an excuse to gain an advantage.



My whole point in posting/flaming in this thread is to get people to realize that there's more to games than installing an old operating system with an old audio card to gain an advantage. It's pathetic. If you want good audio, look for simplicity. Get away from Creative, Logitech, Turtle Beach and all the other companies that target products at gamers. I've gotten equally great audio on Windows XP, Vista, 7 and now 8. It's because I have a driverless audio system for which I only change the volume, nothing else. It's not high end by any means but if I could, I would wager that you'd hear details on it you never knew existed in music, video and games.

It might be the "best" in terms of fucking up the engine and playing sounds from across the map. It's not the best for sound quality.

With a good audio setup, you will hear things as they're intended and clearly without fatigue. With lower quality products (ones marketed towards gamers) various sounds are not as pronounced as they should be. They can be muddled, sibilant or just plain absent.

I agree that sound is a very important part of any game, that's a good reason why I never use TeamSpeak or any other VoIP.

8: Don't use Creative products. X-Fi is shit.