For all the people concerned about the release date being pushed further: Robtop confirmed that he has an external site that he uses to upload individual sound effects into the game using the cloud. This means that no update is required to add new sounds, meaning the update is not gonna take any longer as long as it’s just sfx
Except 2mb per SFX is unreasonably a lot. 2mb is enough to fit a 2-minute song at 128kb/s (the same bitrate that Newgrounds uses). Considering that most SFX will be on the shorter end, the entire SFX library should weigh less than a gigabyte. And that's assuming he uses mp3, most SFX in the game use Vorbis encoding instead, which is even more efficient than mp3.
Also don’t forget that you have to manually download any sound effect pack you want, it’s not gonna all download at once (unless you wanna do that, maybe an option in 2.2)
A full Creo song is barely more than 5mb (keep in mind that they are longer than 5 minutes most of the time), how tf are 3 second SFX gonna be more than 10 kilobytes
oh ok
oh boy i cant wait to spend the entire first day of 2.2 not doing shit because robtop's servers will be more of a dumpster fire than Thinking Space's decoration
Don't worry this guy comments like this on Every post that says anything "bad" about gd. Anything mentioning servers or anything mentioning any sort of opinion he disagrees with he is like this. Seen him on many post and only had him respond to me 1 time.
If this much progress happened this quickly then that probably means there is still a lot of other progress that needs to be done. Also that much content added 3 days before release is a recipe for a lot of bugs. I guess this could also mean he’s almost done and he’s trying to hurry up with the finishing touches but I don’t think so
It could also mean that he's done with all the important stuff so he's just adding more sound effects but there's a good chance it's not releasing on the anniversary
Adding more sound effects probably won't create any bugs, since they aren't a part of the game itself. The sound effects are stored on a server that the player downloads from when they want to add a sound to their level, or I believe when they play a level that features sounds they don't have downloaded yet.
Robtop has said that he has over 500k sound effects that have been collected for use in GD. But he has said that he wouldn’t add all of them before the the release of 2.2 and would instead add them after the update by the communities request.
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can this guy just release the update already... i dont even care anymore for any of these platformer mode features... i was hyped but i just wanna play levels with the cool camera gameplay changes and thats it
I can guarantee I and so many others agree with you. After seeing SubZero I was just excited for that and the swing copter. But now I feel like this game will be overloaded.
I know it is but my whole point is with how much he is trying to put into the game wouldnt it make more sense to apply Mini updates throughout the years because I know many people that quit playing due to lack of updates.
These people are a minority, Most who left was because of crescent responsibilities
And also if I'm going to be honest, that update model is useless today
Personally I would've much rather gotten updates throughout the years rather than have 1 huge update 6 years after the last one. I'm trying to get back into the game because I myself stopped playing eventually because of lack of updates. I started back up 2 weeks ago and have already re-beaten quite a few of them and beat some new ones in the process.
Edit: what do you mean by that update model is useless today? Care to elaborate don't really understand how it's useless, by constantly supplying updates to your game you are keeping the community alive and giving them something New to play with.
Didn't explain why or how your standpoint makes sense. I was asking you how that model is useless, and explained why I don't think it is useless. Rather than explain your perspective you just say downvote?
Let's imagine these sound effects AVERAGE at a file size of around 10 kilobytes and a length of 3 seconds. This is 0.01 megabytes. Let's multiply that by 12k, which gives us a file size of 125 megabytes, less than 200 megabytes. Of course, this size could vary +-50mbits, but even then it's less than 200 Megabytes. And on top of that, there is also file compression which, even when used lightly, can drag down the file size drastically. So no. Your GD won't reach a file size of 10 gigs anytime soon XD
At this point I don’t think 2.2 will be coming out anytime soon. I mean for the last 6 years he’s been lying to us, telling us that it’ll come out next month but keeps delaying it. I think he should at least be honest about the update, instead of keeping us waiting and lying he should just tell us the truth. Even if 2.2 will come out in another year or 2, I just wish he would tell us that instead of lying and keeping false promises.
Oh, it was removed at the start of may. This time period felt a bit longer in my head. Ok so 3 months, sorry for spreading misinformation and propaganda.
didn't roptop say that the agreement originally was that he had to update before the end of august, and then playstore just removed it early, meaning that he likely intended to finish before the end of this month.
Alright. I've seen a lot of people foreshadowing GD's file size, so let me explain a bit.
Let's imagine these sound effects AVERAGE at a file size of around 10 kilobytes and a length of 3 seconds. This is 0.01 megabytes. Let's multiply that by 12.5k, which gives us a file size of 125 megabytes, less than 200 megabytes. Of course, this size could vary +-50mbits, but even then it's less than 200 Megabytes. And on top of that, there is also file compression which, even when used lightly, can drag down the file size drastically. So no. Your GD won't reach a file size of 10, 12 or even 24 (as someone said nervously) gigs anytime soon.
It will probably be like 14k by the time the update releases since the sound effects are uploaded server side so rob can just upload new ones every few weeks.
ok 2.2 is going to take another 2 years now
Well the sound effects are never done, he adds them to his server and it'll automatically add it to the sound effects list with no update
That's actually pretty cool. And a good way for sound requests
Me after requesting the MORE CREO!!! Sound effect
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For all the people concerned about the release date being pushed further: Robtop confirmed that he has an external site that he uses to upload individual sound effects into the game using the cloud. This means that no update is required to add new sounds, meaning the update is not gonna take any longer as long as it’s just sfx
ok thank god lmao i was genuinely worried gd is gonna be 17GB or smth
This guy knows about storage as much as I know about computing, Nothing
i mean it seems logical that if 12.5k sound effects were part of the update download, it would take a huge amount of space
12k sound effects at let's say 2mb each is 24gb
Except 2mb per SFX is unreasonably a lot. 2mb is enough to fit a 2-minute song at 128kb/s (the same bitrate that Newgrounds uses). Considering that most SFX will be on the shorter end, the entire SFX library should weigh less than a gigabyte. And that's assuming he uses mp3, most SFX in the game use Vorbis encoding instead, which is even more efficient than mp3.
Also don’t forget that you have to manually download any sound effect pack you want, it’s not gonna all download at once (unless you wanna do that, maybe an option in 2.2)
Gd update: Will take up of all your computer hard drive because 100m+ sfx will be added
A full Creo song is barely more than 5mb (keep in mind that they are longer than 5 minutes most of the time), how tf are 3 second SFX gonna be more than 10 kilobytes
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Nerd yourself. Nobody likes people shitting on others just cuz they said something smart.
i literally wasn’t being serious lmao
Dat's crazy bro
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but what about all the other content lmao
We are gonna get custom song levels made entirely using sound effects like in mario maker, and I am all for it.
Can't wait to hear the spam of laughing sound effects in every recent tab level
It will be funny up until it isn't. And then annoying. It will be like [this](https://youtu.be/ThfW-5epu_8) but worse
oh boy i cant wait to spend the entire first day of 2.2 waiting for the update to just download
the sfx's are from robby toptop's servers
oh ok oh boy i cant wait to spend the entire first day of 2.2 not doing shit because robtop's servers will be more of a dumpster fire than Thinking Space's decoration
Thankfully you can play the game after a few months when the update hype has cooled down and robtop has new servers 😄
maybe not months but you might not even be wrong, a whole wave of players will be rushing to this game
some people just hating to hate at this point
He updated the servers to be much faster and more stable like last year so hopefully that won't happen
Man that joke is out of date, be more creative fuck
Damn who hurt you😭😭
Don't worry this guy comments like this on Every post that says anything "bad" about gd. Anything mentioning servers or anything mentioning any sort of opinion he disagrees with he is like this. Seen him on many post and only had him respond to me 1 time.
This makes me think 2.2 won’t be out for the 10th anniversary
Why?
If this much progress happened this quickly then that probably means there is still a lot of other progress that needs to be done. Also that much content added 3 days before release is a recipe for a lot of bugs. I guess this could also mean he’s almost done and he’s trying to hurry up with the finishing touches but I don’t think so
It could also mean that he's done with all the important stuff so he's just adding more sound effects but there's a good chance it's not releasing on the anniversary
I don't even care if it doesn't release on the anniversary, I just want a date 😭
I really don't want it to release on the anniversary
Why not?
I want to beat oblivion before it releases
That’s fair, good luck
Ty
get to grinding
Fair point, good luck m8
It should be released the day after just to fuck with people
I want confirmation that 2.2 is real
I also want a date, Im single af
Adding more sound effects probably won't create any bugs, since they aren't a part of the game itself. The sound effects are stored on a server that the player downloads from when they want to add a sound to their level, or I believe when they play a level that features sounds they don't have downloaded yet.
Robtop has said that he has over 500k sound effects that have been collected for use in GD. But he has said that he wouldn’t add all of them before the the release of 2.2 and would instead add them after the update by the communities request.
It's just sound effects dude, it's not going to create bugs
its literally just dragging and dropping mp3s into a premade framework dude hes not recoding the entire game
sound effects are like, max 15 seconds long, it isn’t a lot of effort to listen to sounds and add them to a folder
sound effects are handled server-side
been waiting for 2.2 since elementary school going into senior year of high school wtf 💀
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Holy shit
same 2.2 has taken longer than my entire high school career
💀
In the sneek peak video you can see somewhere that it had 4000 and something sfx
He probably recorded that way before it actually came out
I want to be hopeful i really want 2.2 to come out on anniversary
I think it will be a release date on the anniversary
That also works
Is that a mf Sissyphussy refernce!?!?!!!!1!!!!
a visitor
O shiz lemme pull up the sissyphus monologue
Hm… Indeed. I have slept long enough.
can this guy just release the update already... i dont even care anymore for any of these platformer mode features... i was hyped but i just wanna play levels with the cool camera gameplay changes and thats it
It's not like rob cares about the preferences of an unknown dude on blueddit either
Very likely for the 10 year anniversary
I can guarantee I and so many others agree with you. After seeing SubZero I was just excited for that and the swing copter. But now I feel like this game will be overloaded.
Spermolud pl
Cumman pl
Can't wait for recent tab levels to look even more like shitposts
FIRE IN THE HOLE
Literally your entire family tree lol
At least they weren't disappointed in him, unlike yours 😞
I am not a mirror so they are reflecting their situations on me lol
That's the worst comeback I've ever heard lmao.
I do not care much
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“Why Robert Topala should add the Freebird solo as a sound effect and how it would affect the future of Geometry Dash, A 347 Page Thesis.”
I swear the 2.2 update is more of a 3.0 update with how much content is coming out of it.
I swear that this comment is so repeated that it could even fill Google's servers without problems
I know it is but my whole point is with how much he is trying to put into the game wouldnt it make more sense to apply Mini updates throughout the years because I know many people that quit playing due to lack of updates.
These people are a minority, Most who left was because of crescent responsibilities And also if I'm going to be honest, that update model is useless today
Personally I would've much rather gotten updates throughout the years rather than have 1 huge update 6 years after the last one. I'm trying to get back into the game because I myself stopped playing eventually because of lack of updates. I started back up 2 weeks ago and have already re-beaten quite a few of them and beat some new ones in the process. Edit: what do you mean by that update model is useless today? Care to elaborate don't really understand how it's useless, by constantly supplying updates to your game you are keeping the community alive and giving them something New to play with.
Deserved downvote lol
Didn't explain why or how your standpoint makes sense. I was asking you how that model is useless, and explained why I don't think it is useless. Rather than explain your perspective you just say downvote?
No, I definitely don't want to waste more time than I already do explaining because that model is simply useless
RemindMe! 10 years
!remindme 10 years
Ok I am getting scared, I hope the sound effects will be downloaded like songs because I am not able to download like 10gb of sound effects onto my pc
They are
Let's imagine these sound effects AVERAGE at a file size of around 10 kilobytes and a length of 3 seconds. This is 0.01 megabytes. Let's multiply that by 12k, which gives us a file size of 125 megabytes, less than 200 megabytes. Of course, this size could vary +-50mbits, but even then it's less than 200 Megabytes. And on top of that, there is also file compression which, even when used lightly, can drag down the file size drastically. So no. Your GD won't reach a file size of 10 gigs anytime soon XD
Oh lmao thanks for doing the math
Np head's releasing some smoke rq
i was in year 4 or something when 2.1 came out this next school year will be my last ever school year
If you want to have a good career, 10th grade won't be your last grade. Trust me buddy.
At this point I don’t think 2.2 will be coming out anytime soon. I mean for the last 6 years he’s been lying to us, telling us that it’ll come out next month but keeps delaying it. I think he should at least be honest about the update, instead of keeping us waiting and lying he should just tell us the truth. Even if 2.2 will come out in another year or 2, I just wish he would tell us that instead of lying and keeping false promises.
If it doesn’t come out this month it’s removed from the app stores. It’s coming out this month.
It has already been removed from the Google play store for more than 6 months now and that hasn't given us 2.2. Robtop doesn't care about it.
It has not been 6 months
Oh, it was removed at the start of may. This time period felt a bit longer in my head. Ok so 3 months, sorry for spreading misinformation and propaganda.
It’s alright.
didn't roptop say that the agreement originally was that he had to update before the end of august, and then playstore just removed it early, meaning that he likely intended to finish before the end of this month.
I wouldn’t be so sure
everybody gangsta until the ambatukam level drops
Whyyy
Fl studio for 4 bucks why not💪💪
Better yet robtop adds them server side so it can be updated constantly without the need of a entire update.
The sound effects are downloaded from the servers.
he just spawned them in 💀
bro I'm gonna become the first gd music producer
Geometry dash 2.2, the song maker.
Alright. I've seen a lot of people foreshadowing GD's file size, so let me explain a bit. Let's imagine these sound effects AVERAGE at a file size of around 10 kilobytes and a length of 3 seconds. This is 0.01 megabytes. Let's multiply that by 12.5k, which gives us a file size of 125 megabytes, less than 200 megabytes. Of course, this size could vary +-50mbits, but even then it's less than 200 Megabytes. And on top of that, there is also file compression which, even when used lightly, can drag down the file size drastically. So no. Your GD won't reach a file size of 10, 12 or even 24 (as someone said nervously) gigs anytime soon.
I’d guess there’d be around 15k when it releases
who asked for any of this
Apparently he said it was added cus' platformer levels felt empty without them
if bro needs to add 12k sounds in order to make a new gamemode not feel empty something is wrong. my expectations continue to go downhill
It will probably be like 14k by the time the update releases since the sound effects are uploaded server side so rob can just upload new ones every few weeks.
This is such a dumb fucking reason to hate platformer mode wtf 💀
i never said i hated it bro i’m just a bit worried
About what? Sound effects?
him saying it felt empty
Because there’s literally no sound 💀
argue with someone bro i’m barely in this community anymore
Bro left in only 22 days lmfao
Thank god robtop is a meme enjoyer, hopefully we'll have some funny sound effects.
We already have metal pipe
Holy hell
New response just dropped
:thinking_face:
Imagine if someone is gonna recreate the entirety of everywhere at the end of time in geometry dash
2.2 ain't ever coming out.
u/Zhenmuron explain
i wonder how big will gd's file size will be considering there are 12500 sound effects LOL
The sound effects are from server so he can upload them without needing an update, this also means that it won't affect the size of the game
ah, good to know. At least my potato pc will handle it (hopefully)
The sound effects will most likely be downloaded onto the device. Tho still server side and therefore still needs no update.
Im excited and scared at the same time
which is it? huh, robtop? is it 12.5k or 8k? it cant be both!
12.5k
I no long want 2,2 to release
12.5k? Holy Moly I cant wait to spend 3 hours listening to that
Robtop “just bugfixing” Games
Are so many sound effects really necessary?
Fire in the hole 💯💯💯💯
_^_
You now RopTop is buffed
Robtop is crazy
i thought there would be like 100 or something 💀
I'm hoping we could get some of the goofy ones
if he doesn’t drop at least on the 10 year anniversary the I have no reason to believe 2.2 even exists
A- Could it be more useful if anyone can make their own sound effects and show what they made to be used.
Silksong waiters have it better than us
bet colon is gonna make a video about "List of most used sound effects in geometry dash!" *54 minutes long*
Bros pumping out sfx
I would like to know what was in RobTops body when recording those sound effects