Something Genuinely Spooky About Borderlands

Borderlands General Discussion
#1

It was March 2014, I’d recently bought Borderlands for the PC
I downloaded and booted it up, however, I had been looking something
else up at the time so I alt - tabbed out of borderlands to complete it.
While doing so after a few mins I started hearing some spooky noisy from
an unknown source.

Turns out Borderlands has an unnatural random
sound that plays upon alt - tabbing during the logo segment.

I’ve found nothing online anywhere about this. Only until I had
a decent YouTube following I decided to finally make a video on it.

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#2

That’s pretty weird, I agree! I’ve never seen any reference to this, either.

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#3

Nice! It almost sounds like the Tentacles from the first Half Life during their idle animation.

Why wait?




…just confirmed this now (started the game and ALT-Tabbed over to this post). That sound is faint, but what a weird thing!

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#5

Indeed.
I did make a video ages ago but it literally got no views, so yea, I waited.

#6

Probably the sounds of Claptr4p from the title screen preloading with minimal processing power behind them because the game is minimize?

#7

If that’s the case I wouldn’t understand the thunder in the background, however, a sterling observation mate.

#8

I am now curious if those ambient sounds are actually there when the game is foreground, but so soft relative to the music etc. that you can’t hear them? I only have this on console, so I can’t really check it out, but maybe checking the audio files on PC would shed more light on this?

#9

Well, consider that any frequency of sound, when slowed down becomes a lower register, and as such the sounds of Claptr4p rolling around (the mechanical whirr he makes) and any other ambient noise might register as thunder to our ears because it is a low frequency rumble.

I teach guitar and use VLC or youtube to slow songs down to help students discern the parts of songs they want to learn, and without pitch correcting software, you end up with some really muddy, unnerving low end.

#10

But why would the sound get slowed down when you’ve switched Borderland into the background while it’s loading?

#11

I was saying this earlier, but if the process is minimized and windows or whatever your OS stops dedicating resources (processor, RAM, graphics card) to that process it will slow down, just like when the game is overwhelmed with on screen activity and drops frames, lags, or freezes.

#12

Perhaps…

#13

Sounded like whale song

#14

Indeed, WhY ThO