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I've now played all of the ZORTCH demo, and I gotta say I do love it - but it's not without its flaws. Firstly, well the animations and sound effects need to be snappier for many things. You know Doom 2s Super Shotgun is like god slamming a car door? Yeah a lot of the things in Zortch are like the exact opposite of that. A lot of the weapon sounds are kinda wimpy, there's not enough of an exaggerated push back on the weapons when they fire animation wise, and the enemies weapon sounds are kinda quiet too. What gives? The other major gripe I have is the level design - it's not bad, by any means, but it needs more landmarks to help a player navigate the space. It all feels very similar, which is fine and I know is the norm for shooters of this ilk (think Unreal Gold, Quake 2, etc) but most importantly it's all FIXABLE. A few more very distinctive looking monitoring stations (bright monitors with some pipes coming out on top of a big computer box, something like that) and a blinking purple light in one corner of the map - got it, that'll make that area look more recognizably different, help players navigate. Those shotgun animations? Kill a few of the keyframes, make the animation punchier and for gods sakes, up the volume on those explosions and shotgun blasts! (Incidentally, there is one place you do this really well - and that's on the turrets and the sentry dogs. THAT is exactly what those weapons should sound like!). Currently this game's just a single strafe-jump in the wrong direction, but it would take so little work to polish it up and make it amazing. Lastly - your enemy designs are great. I'm not the biggest fan of the zombie robots - they're very grey, blend into the background too easily, probably need a few more blinking lights on them so we can tell them apart from the walls. But the absolute menagerie at the very end - that giant spawn thing on four legs?! The enemies with the firework guns? Yeah, there's something special here for sure. You just need to make like Spinal Tap and turn things up to 11, baby.

that's strange they are quite loud on my end .. it could be something do with OpenAL .. but if some of them sound ok then it might be just my sound choices 🤔
do you have a special sound setup? (like some surround thing like a special card or anything?)

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I didn't have the same sound problems as this guy.