One player found a "Loud Screaming" audio ID. Because the city was no longer filtering sound playback, the scream echoed into the ears of all 50 people in the server simultaneously.
print(game:GetService("SoundService").RespectFilteringEnabled)
Here is a short story exploring what happens when that property changes. The Day the Music Didn't Stop print(game:GetService("SoundService").RespectFi...
When the console output true , the city was a masterpiece of sound design. If a player clicked a boombox, they heard their music, but the rest of the server enjoyed the ambient hum of the rain and the lo-fi background track. The city’s "Filtering" was respected; what happened on one player's screen stayed on their screen.
But one Tuesday, a tired developer accidentally toggled a setting in the Roblox Studio widget before an update. One player found a "Loud Screaming" audio ID
Ten different players started playing ten different bass-boosted songs. Since the server was "blindly following" the client's command to play music, the sounds stacked into a distorted wall of noise.
The line print(game:GetService("SoundService").RespectFilteringEnabled) is a classic piece of Roblox scripting history. In the world of game development, it serves as a check to see if "chaos" is allowed or if the server is keeping a tight lid on things. The Day the Music Didn't Stop When the
The developers scrambled. They looked at the logs and saw that one line of code. They realized that by setting RespectFilteringEnabled to false , they had essentially handed a megaphone to every exploiter and prankster in the game. Make only specific sounds RespectFilteringEnabled?