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"I wanted you to feel bad": former Battlefield audio designer recalls punching himself to record more realistic gunshot screams
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"I wanted you to feel bad": former Battlefield audio designer recalls punching himself to record more realistic gunshot screams

Rock Paper Shotgun·Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·about 1 month ago
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Content warning for self-harm, if it wasn't obvious Image credit: EA / Rock Paper Shotgun Arc Raiders audio director Bence Pajor has spoken on the Game Makers Notebook podcast about his earlier career at DICE, working on sound effects for the Battlefield FPS series. The discussion includes some insights about how Pajor – a former Swedish military sniper – created effects for soldiers getting struck by bullets. Amongst other things, he experimented with punching himself hard enough to elicit cries of pain. It's not clear whether the resulting recordings made their way into any Battlefield game - one of Pajor's designer colleagues found them so unpleasant that they asked for them to be removed. Pajor spent 15 years at DICE, his first project being Battlefield 2 , his last Battlefield V . In the podcast (as noticed by Julian), he chats about how DICE have cultivated a "documentary" feel for their shooters, taking inspiration from handicam footage of Second Gulf War combatants in the field.…

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