Everytime I load into the Clowns area, I get a horrible squelching noise that lasts about a second through my speakers. For the longest time, I thought this was me, but then last time I did the quest I asked others, and they said they got it too.

I usually wont get it unless I take a couple steps into the area, if that helps.

LMAO!

I'm so going to have to try that quest again and listen out for it.

Maybe it's meant to be there, to add to the general wierdness?

(Not too keen on that quest, it killed Goignus.)

It's probably a placeable with a VFX applied to itself that plays a sound every time you get within a certain distance of it; the crazy sound filter for the area would distort it horribly.

Welcome to Clown Land! Hoo-hoohua-huahuahua!

((Alternatively, it might be a combination of the above, and some sound setting of your own; I can't recall ever hearing this.))

Good to see that the strange sounds weren't coming from inside my head.

I get the same sound. It's been there since I joined the community back in april of last year.

I did notice that it starts off with one set of music when you enter the QA, then that horrific noise, then a different music plays afterwards.

Or at least that's how it appears to me...I don't have all the music of the game memorized.

I hate that screeching sound.

It's happened on a different server, too, so it's not just EfU! Perhaps something to do with the music in the area?

The noise is so unbelievably loud on my speakers. T_T

I don't know what causes it though, and yeah, the same thing has been reported on other servers. I took a look at the sounds in there once and didn't see anything that stuck out like a sore thumb. Haven't looked into it further. It's something wrong with the area, too, because it happens wherever I port into too. Not just a proximity thing.

I've had that issue too, and know exactly what causes it. I suppose I could get around to fixing it some day.

I don't think it's actually an "issue" so much as it was exactly the way SongOfOrpheus meant for it to be!

He's obviously a sadist, between the piercing shriek noise and the knife-trick clowns.

It's just a sound that plays whenever you enter the QA from Upper Sanctuary :O

If you choose "Insanity" for one of the ambient-sound thingies, it causes that.

Fixed.

... Although I'm not positive it's a totally desirable fix. In a sense it's kind of cool that once you enter this strange, artificial dream world you get a strange disconnect sound.

But it's fixed for now!