(05-22-2014, 07:10 PM)Traxit Wrote: Playing FPS Game's with no sound is like trying to PvP with no mouse
No... Let me tell you what it's like being half deaf and existing.
You can hear everything that happens, just like a person with normal hearing does, however, you have no idea what direction its coming from. Now in social situations where a lot of people are talking at once, the main way humans determine who it is that is talking, is from where the sound is coming from... Without the ability to easily determine sound direction, you find yourself unable to work out who in a group of people is saying what. It means that often communication becomes rather odd. You move around the room a lot more than most people would, so that you get a chance to listen to people talking when they're actually near you and their voice therefore stands out from the amorphous mass of voices through its proximity.
You often find yourself subconciously walking to one side of someone or the other, depending on how much you want to listen to them. You can sleep really well.
And finally, despite having some hearing loss, you can still hear everything that happens in a videogame perfectly, except you cannot work out which speaker the sound has come from, and therefore do not know if the danger/target is to your left or right.
That is all. It's not like trying to walk without legs, or trying to PvP in freelancer without a mouse (although I can guarantee I'd still be better than you at that, even using a touchpad). It's not like trying to see without eyes.
In short, you learn to adapt. Because I do not remember anything different, my behaviour is different. I learned to use other cues in FPS games aside from sound. The whole purpose of this thread is to see if it is worth me bothering to try and consciously adapt the way I play FPS games.
Truth be told, my ear is better trained than yours ever will be (years of training and work in mixing live sound for bands, a year of working in a recording studio)... So learn some god damned decency before you start being a total *snip*.
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Edit: Although apparently, using apostrophes without a braincell is like trying to use a can opener on an acorn.
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lol wtf u literally asked 4 ppl's opinions, he didn't even say anything mean to u and u wrote some stangry essay about how 'trained ur ear is' (wow hav trofy). brb barfing from second-hand embarassment =\