Accepted Breach Ambience QOL

[grunger]

What this suggestion adds:

1. Breach ambience should not play if there is no active code 3, 4, or 5
2. SCP kills should not play "scream" effects if there is no active code 3, 4, or 5
3. vwar_scp_ambience_debug console command should be disabled for regular users

Has something similar been suggested before? If so, why is your suggestion different?:
No.

Possible Positives of the suggestion:

1. Avoids confusion when non-breached SCPs kill (912 during a riot, sentient SCPs during tests), maintaining immersion in non-emergencies
2. Removes a cue that works against silent breaches which prompt E11 to check SCP cells for no reason
3. Minimizes console commands that may provide unfair advantages

Possible Negatives of the suggestion:

1. Development time

Based on the Positives & Negatives, why should this suggestion be accepted?:
Should be a relatively common sense change. If easy to implement, I believe most players will agree should have been fixed a long time ago.

 

[Zen]

+Support. I always know about unknown breaches ahead of time because it just plays the breach ambience out of nowhere. It's not great.

 

[TwinninXbow]

+Support the amibance gets meta gamed so much

 

["BloodShed"]

-Support
Removes Realism from the server, who would not scream when mauled to death?

 

[Tigole]

+support
pvp server

 

[grunger]

-Support
Removes Realism from the server, who would not scream when mauled to death?

Realistic that the entire site, through multiple doors, walls, and even sublevels, would be able to hear a scream in a sealed containment chamber? At the very least, a range reduction is warranted.

 

["BloodShed"]

Realistic that the entire site, through multiple doors, walls, and even sublevels, would be able to hear a scream in a sealed containment chamber? At the very least, a range reduction is warranted.

Maybe a range reduction to just in HCZ yeah!

 

[Trusty]

+SUPPORT
From experience and seeing it, people have and WILL use the breach ambiance to metagame a breach. It should be reduced or have it play under more specific things like activating the Code 5 alarm

 

[Verlocity]

Suggestion Approved

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Hi @grunger ,

Thanks for taking the time to make a server suggestion.

Your suggestion will now be locked and marked as accepted.​