Acoustic Dampener

Acoustic Dampener
Item type	Inventory
Game info
Duration time	30s
Appears in	Unreal Unreal Mission Pack: Return to Na Pali

"Deadens the sound emitted from your weapons, making it much easier to launch sneak attacks."

– Unreal manual

Overview

This Item acts as a silencer for your gun. When this is active and you shoot your weapon, the fire sound makes less sound.

Appearances

• Unreal
  • DmCurse
  • DmElSinore
  • DmRadikus

Trivia

• The item is equivalent to Quake II's Silencer item.
• Although it wasn't included in any official map, it is still possible to summon the Dampener via the summon cheat code in Unreal Tournament.
• This item is only useful in multiplayer, as it's not as effective when used in single-player. Like with the VoiceBox, enemies react to the sound input, and will still notice you. Because of this, the Dampener can only be found in certain Deathmatch maps.

Development

• The item used to be found in many other Deathmatch maps in betas, though funnily enough not in beta versions of DmCurse.
• There used to be an unused animation for the item that was discovered by a community member. You can't play it even in the editor, as it wasn't included in the exec lines. It featured the dampener extending out, much like the Eightball ammo. Some mods such as UnrealPSX restore it, however.