Hi Dark, Well, that's something of the catch 22. You could certainly use headphones, but if they aren't 5.1 surround sound headphones some of the audio positioning etc would be lost as you don't have 5 channels of audio output and are reduced to 2d stereo. In other words you could do it but the audio quality would suffer, and you might have to relie on other things like a targeting beep to properly aim a weapon, or scan the area with the look command to get a better idea of where things are in relation to you. So I think it is still possible, but might require some other form of feedback besides audio.
I don't really see this as a problem though, because as you said the games that do have 3d audio like Shades of Doom can be played with bog standard headphones with full 3d audio enabled. That's because Shades of Doom has a lot of other ways of obtaining the same feedback such as a targeting scope, the ability to get the distance and direction to monsters, examine door ways, etc which gives the player more than one way to figure out his/her environment rather than audio. So I would assume MOTA 3D should be as accessible given the fact I plan to add in most if not all of the same kinds of verbal and audio queues as Shades of Doomm. On 6/18/11, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > just one quick question. > > If you use 3D sound only, will the game stil be playable with headphones? > > i have a very good set of 5.1 logitech speakers, however even for the first > person audio games we have, I always prefer playing on headphones simply > because I've found that I simply cannot get the same precision in > positioning audio when using speakers, and for fine tasks such as targiting > weapons, determining direction of multiple sound sources and the like I > would find speakers far harder to play on however good the game audio was. > > i hope therefore if the 3D engine used 5.1 we could stil use headphones. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
