[????-r3131]Death sounds are mute in Heretic/Hexen

[Edward-san]

From this tracker in Skulltag:

When you kill yourself (to make the gib animation), it doesn't have any sound.
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This happens ONLY in Heretic and HeXen
In Doom works fine

Load Heretic or HeXen
Select any class (if in HeXen)
Type Kill in console to kill yourself
You will notice there is no death sound

yep, happens as well in GZDoom 323
it ALSO happens in Zdoom 2.5.0

Tested with ZDoom r3131
Happends here as well.

yeah, I did with a clean .ini file

[wildweasel]

Hmm - do Heretic or Hexen define a *gibbed for their players in Sndinfo?

[Graf Zahl]

They don't have to. *xdeath can also be used.

[NeuralStunner]

A_PlayerScream is called within the first XDeath frame (unlike DoomPlayer which calls A_XScream in the second frame). As a result, it won't play the sound while the console is open.

Use the following:
- Open the console.
- Enter the following:

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wait 1; Kill

- Close the console.
- "Bleeegh..."

My workaround (to a seemingly minor problem) is to use this simple alias:

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Alias Die "wait 1; Kill"

[Graf Zahl]

Thanks for that info. Case closed, then.

[Edward-san]

ah ok. sorry but I just want to say that it was working before 98a, I swear

So he's saying that it worked in r622.

But is it intentional?

[Graf Zahl]

Yes, in older revisions the sound was handled differently which could result in different behavior while the game is paused (as in the console)