There’s a real journey to get to that endpoint, so it’s not as simple as X plus Y equals Stasis.Ĭlick through to watch and listen to a thread of Juan Uribe dissecting the Lorentz Driver’s sound. You put a lot of ingredients into the pot, but everyone contributes and is mixing the recipe. Some of the other more interesting ones for Stasis were scratching a tub filled with water or even other underwater sounds thrown in. Some of that is synthetic elements or crystalline sounds from actual ice recordings - or even Lego bricks moving. The entire sound design team contributed lots of different design work, and then we’d create a large pallet of things that we whittle down and combine. We do field recordings with a theme: Stasis is cosmic ice. We call the concept “source jams.” When you hear one in-game sound, there’s a team of people that have made the sound. How do you make sounds for that?īuehler: Stasis is a good example of how we collaborate and how Bungie approaches sound design. Stasis is all about Darkness and cosmic ice. The Warlock Stasis super pop, from the wielder’s perspective. “A Super pop is meant to feel powerful for the player but also kind of scary in the way it gives information to other players.” “When you hit your Super, we want you to feel like you're ready to wreak havoc upon your enemies,” says Bungie’s Senior Audio Lead Evan Buehler.

There’s no mistaking any of the totally unique “Super pop” sound effects in Destiny 2. The wielder gets a surging dopamine rush of awesome power, but if you’re on the receiving end, it’s probably despair. If the latter, do I run, hide, or go down fighting? When a Warlock comes at you with ice magic that can shatter you to pieces, there’s not much you can do about it.

If I’m in the Crucible battling other players and hear it, my heart skips a beat as I check the activity feed to see if it was an ally or enemy. It opens with a roaring windup as the wielder transforms into an overpowered ice wizard, then there’s a dwindling crystalline grind in the backdrop - “ icy dubstep” as somebody on Reddit called it. Nothing sends a shiver down my spine quite like the sickening pop and icy trickle of the Warlock’s Stasis Super activation in Destiny 2.

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