Audio is DISGUSTING
Now sometimes audio of specific things (Shots, Ults or others) simply disappears, it even happened during ALGS. I wonder if you'll ever apologise for the ZERO effort you're putting into this.
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4 years in development. L-O-L.
- @Cro_Pittt I'd like them to put out a blog about what they can and can't do about it. I believe the Source engine has limitations that makes 3D positional audio impossible when there are too many at a time to represent.
The lack of communication from Respawn on this topic has been deafening for years though. I saw the Dev's words on the sound issues. Basically said, that to fix the sound the entire game would have to be rebuilt, as its all embedded in the files. They can only make adjustments within their sound engines parameters. Which only gives them a small window of options.
With that being said, I don't understand why they continue to add so many sounds not needed which bogs down the already stretched thin sound engine, when they know it can't handle anymore.
I mean look at WE, in the old Sorting Factory... the two towers there that have steam spewing values on the two roof tops flooding that entire area with the steam sounds is completely pointless. There are a ridiculous amount - so many sounds they could remove from this game which would take some much needed stress off the sound engine and may help us hear more important sounds needed to hear to play a competitive BR.
So they have a 20 plan for Apex to thrive but know this is as good as their sound will ever be. Pathetic! I would be fine with Apex being taken down for a period of time to fix the sound issues. If they wanna make it better, do it right - regardless what that would be. But they would have to take a little hit on income generated for that to happen so yeah,@HappyHourSumwur @NickBeam27 Problem is, fine, we'll never get a good audio, i got over this long time ago, but over the past several season it has gotten worse! And adding useless audio also does not make sense at all. You're already have a bad situation, why make it much worse? And clear communication from them is not trustworthy, as we saw with the sbmm post.
I completely agree with the comments about the over clutter of too many sounds going on causing too many distractions & all that but what baffles me as to the sounds that I can still hear in the game are the sounds of my own & my teammates footsteps which can often easily be mis-interpreted as enemy footsteps.I definitely don't need to rely on the sounds of mine or my teammates footsteps so why is it still in the game unless the devs feel it's some sort of comfort thing. Such an easy sound effect to remove from the game one would think but no not unless the sound effects have a paid skin attached to it then it will become priority.
- @Cro_Pittt Something happened between the rank switch from Broken Moon to Worlds Edge today. Sooooo much more BASS, I can't hear a darn thing. It's so insane right now.
- @Redmattgame "Such an easy sound effect to remove from the game one would think but no not unless the sound effects have a paid skin attached to it then it will become priority" - Hahaha, that made me laugh my as* off. Awesome! : )
- I saw the Dev's words on the sound issues. Basically said, that to fix the sound the entire game would have to be rebuilt, as its all embedded in the files. They can only make adjustments within their sound engines parameters. Which only gives them a small window of options.
This means that there are not real devs (programmers) there anymore, only modders (who can tweak the in-game parameters). Just I suspected.
@PsyhiX69 Of course they are real programmers, they simply mean that the audio was built on a bad foundation, and reworking that foundation would take a very long time. (which they don’t want to do because EA wants them to push out skins) I can guarantee you they haven't modded the many new things into the game… becase they’re new. Catalyst isn’t a modded character, it took actual code lol!
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