Some impacts are silent

[ebrahimebrahim]

Some impacts that look like they ought be loud are completely silent, and it's kind of jarring for what otherwise feels like a very responsive world

[ebrahimebrahim]

It would help to know what situations lead to weirdly silent impacts. @yusufmte please if you notice a silent impact during a playtest see if you can reproduce it

[yusufmte]

I have had some of those D: I'm not sure, but I feel like it happens more with faster impacts? Maybe it's somehow related to framerate and started when we started capping the framerate?

[ebrahimebrahim]

I think it happened before we capped the framerate

[ebrahimebrahim]

Here's a good way to get a sense of how common this issue is:

• start in sandbox mode
• 'R' until you have a big boulder
• repeatedly spam rocks and slam them into the boulder

It happens sometimes that the impact is silent, but it's really very rare. I think it used to be more common, but for some reason it is now rare. It's too rare to worry about, I think. I'll make this issue optional, and we might remove it later if we don't find silent impacts to be noticeable.

But do let me know if you figure out a way to reproduce silent impacts. Then we can deal with it.