Post by Doctor Wheeze on Jul 19, 2010 21:58:41 GMT -5
Faded asked somebody to post about this and I figured that I ought to since I brought it up!
Many many updates back, Valve added in the option to have a ding sound play whenever you get a hit. If you don't have this enabled, you really should because it's very helpful. It's in the options menu, under multiplayer/advanced. It's something like "play sound on hit," towards the bottom. Also while you're in there you should turn on floating damage numbers, those are also helpful.
Somebody on the server earlier was wishing that there was a way to get Quake-style hit sounds that changed in pitch depending on the amount of damage you've done. I don't know anything about Quake, but as it turns out there actually is a way to do this in TF2! And you don't need any fancy scripts because it's in the game already! Oh boy!
The commands are tf_dingaling_pitchmindmg "pitch" and tf_dingaling_pitchmaxdmg "pitch". So for example, mine looks like this:
The lower the number, the lower the pitch. I don't know if there are any limits to either value because it was a while ago that I did this. I like those values because for big hits you get a very satisfying, meaty sound, and afterburn and small hits don't get too annoying. Experiment with it a little to find something you like. Just put those into the console and you should be set, or you can put it in your config.cfg if you're a hardcore dude.
You can also get custom dingalings, but I don't really know anything about that. There's a whole site about those if you're in to that kind of thing.
Many many updates back, Valve added in the option to have a ding sound play whenever you get a hit. If you don't have this enabled, you really should because it's very helpful. It's in the options menu, under multiplayer/advanced. It's something like "play sound on hit," towards the bottom. Also while you're in there you should turn on floating damage numbers, those are also helpful.
Somebody on the server earlier was wishing that there was a way to get Quake-style hit sounds that changed in pitch depending on the amount of damage you've done. I don't know anything about Quake, but as it turns out there actually is a way to do this in TF2! And you don't need any fancy scripts because it's in the game already! Oh boy!
The commands are tf_dingaling_pitchmindmg "pitch" and tf_dingaling_pitchmaxdmg "pitch". So for example, mine looks like this:
tf_dingaling_pitchmindmg "200"
tf_dingaling_pitchmaxdmg "50"The lower the number, the lower the pitch. I don't know if there are any limits to either value because it was a while ago that I did this. I like those values because for big hits you get a very satisfying, meaty sound, and afterburn and small hits don't get too annoying. Experiment with it a little to find something you like. Just put those into the console and you should be set, or you can put it in your config.cfg if you're a hardcore dude.
You can also get custom dingalings, but I don't really know anything about that. There's a whole site about those if you're in to that kind of thing.
