Question to Virgil

[Clean0nion]

How often do you Crack your Knuckles?

[knucracker]

More than I should...

[asmussen]

The knucklecracker logo screens at the beginning of the CW games are actually making a live audio connection over the internet to a workstation that Virgil sits in front of with a microphone to provide the knuckle cracking sound completely 100% live for every startup of the game! Or at least, that's what I heard...

[Clean0nion]

Sometimes I repeatedly click the CW3 button when my computer's laggy. Sorry Virgil.

[knucracker]

That sound you hear on the company logo screen... it's not knuckles cracking, or even close.  I took a plastic bag (the kind cheap candy comes in) and bent it at a tight angle and snapped it to make the plastic pop.  I recorded this, then lowered the frequency, changed the speed, and added some bass.  It sounds like what you expect a knuckle cracking to sound like.  An actual knuckle crack doesn't really sound like this....

I learned this distinction by watching some TV show about sound effects and perception.

[Clean0nion]

That sound you hear on the company logo screen... it's not knuckles cracking, or even close.  I took a plastic bag (the kind cheap candy comes in) and bent it at a tight angle and snapped it to make the plastic pop.  I recorded this, then lowered the frequency, changed the speed, and added some bass.  It sounds like what you expect a knuckle cracking to sound like.  An actual knuckle crack doesn't really sound like this....

I learned this distinction by watching some TV show about sound effects and perception.

I feel betrayed. You better have an update coming soon.

I jest.

[Jacobkolstad]

I took a plastic bag (the kind cheap candy comes in) and bent it at a tight angle and snapped it to make the plastic pop.  I recorded this, then lowered the frequency, changed the speed, and added some bass.

XD
Where do you actually get the sounds for the blasters/mortars/bertha's etc?

[Clean0nion]

I took a plastic bag (the kind cheap candy comes in) and bent it at a tight angle and snapped it to make the plastic pop.  I recorded this, then lowered the frequency, changed the speed, and added some bass.

XD
Where do you actually get the sounds for the blasters/mortars/bertha's etc?

Those are actual knuckle cracks.

[Kingo]

That sound you hear on the company logo screen... it's not knuckles cracking, or even close.  I took a plastic bag (the kind cheap candy comes in) and bent it at a tight angle and snapped it to make the plastic pop.  I recorded this, then lowered the frequency, changed the speed, and added some bass.  It sounds like what you expect a knuckle cracking to sound like.  An actual knuckle crack doesn't really sound like this....

I learned this distinction by watching some TV show about sound effects and perception.

I have one question...
Why did you use a plastic bag instead of actually cracking your knuckles? There probably is a knuckle-cracking sound effect online somewhere also.
It's more of a POP! then a !CRACK, I may add from personal experience. In fact, I cracked my knuckles while writing this :P

[ThirdParty]

Personally, I find the sound annoying.  I wish that if I had sound effects turned off in the settings, the opening screen also wouldn't make noise.

[knucracker]

Press ESC as soon as you see the splash screen.  It will dismiss, not sound will play, and you'll get into the game a couple seconds faster (assuming your machine is fast enough to have already finished initializing a few things).

[pyaehtetaung]

Press ESC as soon as you see the splash screen.  It will dismiss, not sound will play, and you'll get into the game a couple seconds faster (assuming your machine is fast enough to have already finished initializing a few things).

I don't know it before.
Thank for a tip.

[DarthVader12]

Is there anyway to implement left clicking on the intro screen to skip it like in CW 1?

[Michionlion]

esc skips the intro, Darth.