Add some kind of limiter/clipper to the sound-output

[Dr.Penicz]

For all those headphone-addicts, it maybe is a good idea to add something like a limiter, or just some hard clipping (resulting in some distortions, if the sounds are too loud) to the sound-output, in order to protect the ears..
From time to time you have simultaneously exploding granades, or eg. that bug when a sniper tries to punch, but one hears him shooting several shots at once..
Generally talking about all the situations, when a soundfile is played multiple times rapidly.
Any headphone-users around??

[Mighty]

headphone user or not, I've had a heart attack multiple times when suddenly the respawn sound pops five times louder than usual

[Bistoufly]

headphone user or not, I've had a heart attack multiple times when suddenly the respawn sound pops five times louder than usual

Same here.

[Dr.Penicz]

Yeah, that's also some common issue, I forgot about.
Another one occurs if things get stuck in a poly, or something like that, and you get this "something hits the floor"-sound multiple times..

[Blacksheepboy]

headphone user or not, I've had a heart attack multiple times when suddenly the respawn sound pops five times louder than usual

Haha

[Shoozza]

I'm not sure how that clipping stuff would work, but the issue with the multiple too loud sounds could probably be fixed in 1.7

[Dr.Penicz]

but the issue with the multiple too loud sounds could probably be fixed in 1.7

And how?? Blending out old sounds if a new one starts??

Hard clipping is not more than "min(max(S,-1),1)". Where S is the sound-stream, assuming that the normal range would go from -1 to 1. But be warned that this would produce some hardcore-distortions.
Soft clipping could be done with some function like "atan()"..
I guess you only play back some .wavs. If you have a place for some soundeffects, the clipping would go there...
I've done some DSP, so maybe I could help. I'd just need to know how you process sounds.

[Blacksheepboy]

Well from what I take it, the sounds stack or something.. which is probably fixable? Like my brain thinks of it as a sound queue that just adds up instead of just having sounds naturally occur at once. Doh, why am I tying to talk about the technical stuff. At least this is how I remember it to be.. unless it's just team spawn or something.