Sound Control Option and Hotkeys / Some Key Combination (ALT+TAB?) Disables Sound Option

[hansson]

This is a simple suggestion: add hotkeys for controlling in-game sound and music. For example, by default, ctrl+M would enable/disable in-game music, ctrl+S would enable/disable in-game sound, and so on. In addition, add checkboxes in the options menu, under "Sounds" presumably, for enabling/disabling the same things (along with the already existing relevant sliders).

[ssilk]

So in general you want to have faster access to the (sound-)options?

Indeed useful, cause - unlike other games - the same piece of music is sometimes too loud and sometimes to silent, no matter what kind of surrounding the character currently is standing. I don't know why.

[hansson]

Yes, in addition to it being easier to toggle sound and music instead of working the sliders back and forth, forgetting the exact configuration you had them in and so on. This is a common feature in many games.

I haven't experienced the volume difference you are describing however. Not so I have noticed it in any case. Sounds like a bug?

[wraithjuggler]

TL;DR

A option in settings where you can disable all Factorio audio when you are tabbed out of the game. (Or disable all audio except Alerts)

What ?

You guys should add a checkbox that can either enable or disable Factorio audio when you alt+TAB or when Factorio is not selected so that way you can't hear the sounds of wind or your factory while watching a youtube video or stuff along the lines of that. This option should be displayed under Sound Settings. In my opinion, if this feature is to be implemented, it should disable all sound EXCEPT alerts.


Here is a example from World of Warcraft for what I mean:

Why ?

It is a nice little addition to the game that in my opinion has no downsides to it. This is also a fairly common feature in many games, and I get annoyed having to open my volume mixer everytime I want to AFK while I'm doing a really long research.

[choco491]

I was about to post a suggestion about this. This very much needs to be added, it's a pretty easy feature and it'd massively help us out who go AFK or alt-tab to watch youtube while gaming.

[Rseding91]

The idea sounds fine but the problems start showing up when you try this logic on anything except Windows. Linux and all the random desktop manages *love* to send false-flags to processes telling them they're focused/not minimized even if they still are and the other way around: telling a window it isn't focused even when it is.

The end result is the game would randomly mute your game even when you're still interacting with it.

[wraithjuggler]

The idea sounds fine but the problems start showing up when you try this logic on anything except Windows. Linux and all the random desktop manages *love* to send false-flags to processes telling them they're focused/not minimized even if they still are and the other way around: telling a window it isn't focused even when it is.

The end result is the game would randomly mute your game even when you're still interacting with it.

There should be a work around for this though, right? I mean they've had this option working fine on World of Warcraft and other games. If not, you could just limit this feature to Windows only.

[eradicator]

The end result is the game would randomly mute your game even when you're still interacting with it.

I'd be perfectly fine if there was a simple hotkey (or better: API interface "player.mute=true") to mute all sound playback. That would also be useful when continuing to play while talking to someone. And could probably be used on linux to make the window manager send keys to factorio whe it sees fit.

[wraithjuggler]

The end result is the game would randomly mute your game even when you're still interacting with it.

I'd be perfectly fine if there was a simple hotkey (or better: API interface "player.mute=true") to mute all sound playback. That would also be useful when continuing to play while talking to someone. And could probably be used on linux to make the window manager send keys to factorio whe it sees fit.

That would also work pretty well.

[wraithjuggler]

Bump

[ssilk]

i bump back by joining into older thread and fixing thread title to that direction

[sticklord]

+1

I'd also like to see ctrl+s to mute sound and ctrl+m to mute music