Tumbleweed wrote:QUOTE (Tumbleweed @ Mar 6 2008, 12:24 AM) Justification is easy for simulating though - having the computer in your fighter simulate the noises of gunfire, boosting, etc - externally would be almost necessary to allow the pilot to have maximum situational awareness, all the hvy boosting/ripcording in the world wont save you from that int if you dont hear the mini's until they're hitting your hull
This is obviously it.
Even in the real world there have been experiments (hell, may well be implemented now) where radar info is used to give sound clues to a fighter pilot about where the other targets are. Exactly like we hear gunfire and booster sounds from the enemies in Alleg.
<bp|> Maybe when I grow up I can be a troll like PsycH <bp|> or an obsessive compulsive paladin of law like Adept