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I have found that when opening a tab that the initial sound keeps playing repeatedly, which is correspondingly annoying. I'd like to suggest that it would fade away after a little you know? :blink:
 

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I have to agree. I know its way down on the lists of concerns for a game this complex, but the constant sound loop struck me as an odd design choice the first time I noticed it in a beta game video. So much whispering! How long does it take to say "I'll cut his throat in the church!"?
 

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What I don't like are the sounds in all the management windows, especially the military/troops one. To me, these are ambient sounds, so if I turn off ambient sounds, I shouldn't get them. Nope; apparrently only the "outdoors" sound effect is ambient.
 

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What I don't like are the sounds in all the management windows, especially the military/troops one. To me, these are ambient sounds, so if I turn off ambient sounds, I shouldn't get them. Nope; apparrently only the "outdoors" sound effect is ambient.

I did the EXACT same thing but with no effect! Hopefully someone will take note.
 

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Well, I quite liked the menu sounds, and if you compare the CK1 menu sounds with CK2 then it is an improvement 10 fold.

They are very good but I agree with earlier poster that they should perhaps not be on a loop.
 

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Most of the sounds are good. The only thing that is annoying is the music, I have turned it down but some tracks are louder than others.
 

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What I don't like are the sounds in all the management windows, especially the military/troops one. To me, these are ambient sounds, so if I turn off ambient sounds, I shouldn't get them. Nope; apparrently only the "outdoors" sound effect is ambient.

Those sounds are handled by the "Effects" slider
 

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I like the sounds. I especially like the newborn window, my wife comments on it nearly every time she hears it.

Which makes me very glad there's no sound effect for having a romp with a random courtier delivering pizza ;)
 

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So think maybe a mod could do this? I dont feel like messing with it since i had a long game with Ireland and my computer switch off. :glare:
 

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I agree, the sounds are annoying. My computer is in the lounge so there are always other people around when I'm playing, so it's double annoying for them because they're not even playing the game. Some sound would be okay, if it was short, not too disturbing, and served a purpose (ie notified me of something), but without the option to deselect the other sounds I'm afraid I have to turn them all off.