- added a check to the player sound code to prevent the surfacing sound from blocking out other speech.

The start of the third level is badly timed and this will block the introduction line.

source/sw/src/player.cpp

@@ -3728,6 +3728,8 @@ DoPlayerFall(PLAYERp pp)
                     PlaySound(DIGI_HITGROUND, pp, v3df_follow|v3df_dontpan);
             }
 
+            StopPlayerSound(pp);
+
             // i any kind of crawl key get rid of recoil
             if (DoPlayerTestCrawl(pp) || TEST_SYNC_KEY(pp, SK_CRAWL))
             {

source/sw/src/sounds.cpp

@@ -795,6 +795,12 @@ int _PlayerSound(int num, PLAYERp pp)
     if (vp->priority != PRI_PLAYERVOICE && vp->priority != PRI_PLAYERDEATH)
         return 0;
 
+    // The surfacing sound should not block other player speech.
+    if (soundEngine->IsSourcePlayingSomething(SOURCE_Player, pp, CHAN_VOICE, DIGI_SURFACE))
+    {
+        soundEngine->StopSound(SOURCE_Player, pp, CHAN_VOICE);
+    }
+
     // He wasn't talking, but he will be now.
     if (!soundEngine->IsSourcePlayingSomething(SOURCE_Player, pp, CHAN_VOICE))
     {