Re: Painful sound effects
 

Generally my wife politely ignores my gaming, but she made an exception for the maenad death screams. I was not so politely instructed to turn off the sound effects.

Re: Painful sound effects
 

Lol, ditto to the elephants. I have to plug in my headphones if I plan on playing anybody with elephants. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: Painful sound effects
 

I always just play with the sound off.
Seems like maybe they're using addition to combine sounds, where it might make more sense to do some kind of averaging (maybe with an allowance to get, say, up to twice as loud as a single unit, as you mass more and more of them? Maybe also with some jitter on the timing of the sounds?)

Re: Painful sound effects
 

Generally speaking, I either play Dom3 with no sound, or just the music, or headphones. The sound effects are not exactly the most soothing out there, and my girlfriend sometimes wants to hear her own PC's sounds...