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JDOGMcFUZZL's avatar
JDOGMcFUZZL
6 years ago

Directional audio

This game has horrible audio in general but its particularly bad with directional. Like when someone is walking around you you have no idea if they are above, below, left right or anything..  Its jus...
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Wingmannedbro's avatar
Wingmannedbro
6 years ago

Yeah I think that's actually a you-problem with your ears.

GRiPSViGiL's avatar
GRiPSViGiL
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago

Sound has been FUBAR for a while now.

  • Wingmannedbro's avatar
    Wingmannedbro
    6 years ago
    @GRiPSViGiL wrote:

    Sound has been FUBAR for a while now.

    I use €150,- headphones, and have experienced literally not a single issue in all these months.

    • MandatoryIDtag's avatar
      MandatoryIDtag
      6 years ago

      I use £5 skull candys and i legit know I've got enemies near me but i can't work out where from for for the life of me, i can't properly pinpoint distant gunfire either lol. I have to just rely purely on instinct,experience and my reflexes. XD

      Seem's we both need a better headset for this game lmao. ;p

    • GRiPSViGiL's avatar
      GRiPSViGiL
      Seasoned Ace
      6 years ago
      @Wingmannedbro I use Studio Monitor headphones and occasionally get no sound for footsteps specifically. Hasn't always been that way. Plenty of people report the same. Nice to always blame users but again the things suffered in this game I do not suffer on another Origin title BFV.


      I guess that needs to be my signature at this point I have to clarify it so much.
      • Biochemikas's avatar
        Biochemikas
        6 years ago

        Randomly missing sounds has been a problem in Apex from the start, but 1) it's not consistent and pretty rare, 2) it has nothing to do with this topic about positioning of sounds. If OP can't tell direction of sounds even remotely correctly then that's definitely a problem on his end, since I have no problem telling at least general direction of sounds, even if it's not as precise as in PubG (but that one has it's own set of different problems).

        Using 7.1 simulation can completely mask sound directionality. Using sound compression significantly hinders ability to tell distance from loudness. Those 2 options should always be turned off for BR games. Just a couple of potential errors on user side (apart from the obvious already mentioned terrible headhpone problem).

        P.S. I use HyperX Cloud II's, which are really pretty bad headphones in terms of sound quality and the sound stage is not great, but still work well enough for sound positioning. They also have "7.1" option - tried that once - that was a horrible experience I don't want to even think about XD.

        P.P.S. As weird as it sounds, I know some headphones are not even Stereo, but mono. Obviously telling sound direction on such headphones would be physically impossible. I guess there are windows setting that could also turn the output to mono and maybe broken headphones may (I dunno) fail to produce stereo output. If turning around near a constant sound makes absolutely no difference at all - a mono output may be the most likely source of problem.

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