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09 Jul

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Originally posted by Banana_Leclerc12

I misunderstood it as well, ı am an oppurtinist tbh so ı Just sent my id, ı tried to say fist bump over comments lol

I sent it to you anyway ;)

Congrats on finding this obscure Easter egg!

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Originally posted by Banana_Leclerc12

Cockatiel#birb (yes ı have a cockatiel how did you knew?) 🤜

lol I thought I you meant fist bumping over comments, not me actually sending you a fist bump buddy

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Originally posted by Banana_Leclerc12

Virtual fistbump then? 🤜

Deal

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Originally posted by Banana_Leclerc12

eh atleast it took longer to find than the omen ghost octopus thing, that was within a day lol

i said the same thing!

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Originally posted by Banana_Leclerc12

İs there anything to still find lol, i was pretty luck finding this tho

that's it for now

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Originally posted by Just_Slappy

The octopus on Omens ghost changes the buddy as well.

you mean the octopus on the octopus ghost?

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Originally posted by Jhyxe

Bets on Killjoy and Raze in the very near future. :)

Also, are there any others active at the moment?

all that are active have been found. this one took a bit so im glad that they're harder to find :)

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It's awesome that you acknowledge that your reactionary behavior can be toxic. I feel that is one of the hardest things to recognize in oneself as a player. So good for you for wanting to change!

I actually heard this advice from someone on my team but if you run across someone being toxic, you just need to ask them one question: "Hey, are you feeling okay?" I feel this question not only gives you a chance to calm down when you want to react in a toxic way, but also this question isn't belittling to the toxic player and is addressing their behavior and not attacking them as a person. This question gives other "reactionary toxic" players a chance to check themselves and react. I was surprised to hear that a player once responded with: "I'm sorry I'm not really good at this game and it's really bothering me." After that, the other team members were helping them with advice and tips and the player stopped being toxic. You start to see that some players that come off as toxic a...

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08 Jul

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Originally posted by Jhyxe

I hope that there are other easter eggs like this in the future.

there will be!

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Originally posted by AYAYA_COCO_JAMBO

I just specifically remembered that one comment and it was in the first thread my reddit search showed haha, fair enough though

Yea I really didn't mean to get in your hair here. I really like everything else about the skins, just nitpicking the one thing I wish was a little different. You guys obviously did your testing. I appreciate the answers. Cheers.

No worries at all! I love talking to you all about this stuff, so I appreciate the questions. We're so used to seeing the same stuff over and over, so it's hard for us to tell what feels different or unique to players. So good to hear a fresh perspective. We do lots of surveys and tests, but talking on reddit one-on-one to a player is more fun and more casual.

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Originally posted by AYAYA_COCO_JAMBO

Thats what I thought aswell when it released, this comment by you might have made me start imagining things. Maybe I misunderstood you there.

Turning the firing audio up a notch is tricky because when we do it too much, we risk causing confusion for people who aren’t sure what gun they picked off the ground.

I appreciate that but I figured that kind of went out the window when stuff like Prime, Reaver, Ion, Origin, etc. released.

balance of having custom audio but not upsetting players who don’t want skins interfering with their gameplay

Again, totally get this but I personally wouldn't have seen anything wrong with it after looking at whats already in the game (and the rest of the bundle). Does this mean that future skins' audio will be dialed back compared to past releases?

Woah! I love how invested you are in this stuff that you've been commenting on skins for so long! Thank you for being so into it! So that comment was about the other audio actions (like reload/equip). We wanted to see if players wanted custom firing at all back then, since Prime/Sovereign/Elderflame all had custom firing audio.

To your second comment, you'd think that, right? :D But actually those skins were tested so there's still elements there that draw it back to the base skin in terms of recognizability. Audio is something we're still testing a lot to see how far we can push it without interfering with gameplay.

And I think we're at a point where we'll keep experimenting to see what works. I personally thought the Phantom audio was very distinct. Maybe it's harder to tell in videos vs. actually using the skin, but the firing audio is incredibly unique and really satisfying to shoot with. The equip/reload/inspect audio is of course awesome, too.

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Originally posted by AYAYA_COCO_JAMBO

Odds of you guys turning up the 'ghostly' sound on the phantom a notch? The sound effects on the 3 other guns are great but its hard to tell that its actually there for the phantom, seems like quite a few other people have voiced that in the comments aswell

Same with the Oni, really

Oni doesn’t actually have custom firing audio at all! What you’re hearing is probably the kill sound (kill banner), which all skins with the custom kill icon have (including Ruination). Ruination had both custom firing audio and the custom kill banner icon and sound.

Turning the firing audio up a notch is tricky because when we do it too much, we risk causing confusion for people who aren’t sure what gun they picked off the ground. We always include some of the base firing sound because of competitive integrity. We’ve also seen players be really sensitive to custom audio when we push it further, like we did with the Origin Vandal.

Our audio designer spent a lot of time here trying to strike a balance between custom audio and also still making sure the base sounds are present. This skin went through a lot of feedback but it was too unrecognizable at times, so we had to dial it back. I’m hoping we struck a good balance of having custom audio but not upsetting player...

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Originally posted by nichia0

Is the phantom gonna have default sounds? I expected it to have ghostly sounds so the 2175 is worth it

It has custom audio for the equip, reload, inspect, and firing. The audio for the Phantom is specifically based on Viego from League of Legends.