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TL;DR

Crafting machines emit different sounds based on the item they are crafting.

What ?

Crafting machines could make sound according to the item they are crafting. For example, crafting iron bars from iron plates would make a metallic sound (like a repetitive hammering). Each item (or category of item) would have its own sound.

Why ?

When walking through your factory, you see the various lines of products. It creates a kind of colorful mosaic. From a sound perspective, there is no such thing as you only hear the same sound of crafting machines, conveyors and inserters (and occasionnaly chemical plants). Such a feature would make sound be a mosaic as well.
[Lot of work tho, for both the sound designer and the sound engineer taking care of blending with music.]

I would really like that. But it’s difficult (it takes some days to create sounds for most important items) and gameplay value is medium/low.

indeed (I used to be a composer so I know the work it is lol) and the mixing of any given combination of sounds should be thought which would be quite a nightmare to do...

"sounds" expensive

netmand wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 27, 2020 2:31 pm

"sounds" expensive