Since the new season came out, I haven't been able to play due to unusable sound. I know a lot of you will just state that it's always been broken, but I'm talking about a way worse sound than usual.Some sounds are now heavily reduced or even removed depending on the angle I'm looking at. This includes the voice lines of my teammates, gunshots, abilities, footsteps... It's never been this bad. The sound capture angle is now extremely narrow and a 1 degree rotation can literally make a sound go from fully noticeable to completely muted.Has anyone noticed this huge bug? Am I the only one?

Alright guys, I figured it out!Short answer, the headset (HyperX Cloud Flight) is faulty. Long answer, the right hear speaker is not able to output some very specific Apex Legends sound frequencies when the volume is lowered by the character rotation.How did I conclude that?When using the same headset to play other games (Tested on Overwatch 2, Fortnite, Hyenas, The final, Battlefield), to watch movies or listen to music, everything sounds perfect. When using another headset for apex, everything sound perfect, even when watching the faulty clips.When doing the same 2 tests mentioned above on another computer, I get the same results.I am no hardware engineer but it seems like the right hear speaker on the headset got damaged from playing too much apex. (Almost 8000 hours)So to answer the thread title"New sound engine problem?"NO BUT I was still able to hear missing sounds for bin opening animations, which doesn't matter all that much.

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11 Replies

soraoka623
3 years ago
I completely agree.
Looking at a lot of the topics, the focus is on skins, jump towers and matchmaking, but clearly sound bugs are more important.
I'm surprised aim assist isn't on the agenda too much.
hayhor
Hero
3 years ago
@OPL3XITY I haven't noticed. What platform are you on?
OPL3XITY
3 years ago
@hayhor PC / Steam

Yesterday I played a bit (not much since the broken sound makes it impossible to enjoy), and after some testing I realized its even worse than expected. I could hear king Kanyon's ship only when I was looking away from it. Also, when fired shots are muted, some shot's "lower" sound layers can still clearly be heard. This thing is 100% broken. Not like bad sound design broken... Like sound engine programming broken.

@hayhor These bugs could not be ignored. I'm starting to wonder if I'm the only one getting these bugs. Unfortunately, reinstalling the game again and again does nothing to fix it.
pandareno1999
Hero+
3 years ago
I've seen footage of this bug, but it's not happened to me.
hayhor
Hero
3 years ago
@OPL3XITY Yeah sorry I'm not PC and not experiencing it.
Cheese9Man
3 years ago
@OPL3XITY It’s not worse or better for me. If anything, the only complaint I had was the loud music during the last 5 kills of gun run.
NickBeam27
3 years ago
@Cheese9Man I am on Ps4, and although the sound as always been an issues since day one....there are times/seasons when it is better at times than others.
With that being said, this season 14, since launch, I find the overall sound in a lot of aspects is much worse than I have ever experienced before. IMO
OPL3XITY
3 years ago
Alright guys, I figured it out!

Short answer, the headset (HyperX Cloud Flight) is faulty.

Long answer, the right hear speaker is not able to output some very specific Apex Legends sound frequencies when the volume is lowered by the character rotation.
How did I conclude that?
When using the same headset to play other games (Tested on Overwatch 2, Fortnite, Hyenas, The final, Battlefield), to watch movies or listen to music, everything sounds perfect.
When using another headset for apex, everything sound perfect, even when watching the faulty clips.
When doing the same 2 tests mentioned above on another computer, I get the same results.

I am no hardware engineer but it seems like the right hear speaker on the headset got damaged from playing too much apex. (Almost 8000 hours)
So to answer the thread title
"New sound engine problem?"
NO
BUT I was still able to hear missing sounds for bin opening animations, which doesn't matter all that much.
pandareno1999
Hero+
3 years ago
@OPL3XITY I just recently stopped using Hyper Cloud X in favor of Astro A40. It's significantly better, especially for music. I'm a professional musician, and I tried the Hyper as headphones for music precisely one time because of how absolutely terrible it sounded. That wasn't why I changed brands for gaming, but I tried the Astro for music once to see, and it actually sounded like a proper set of headphones.
Awhoo_Thunder
3 years ago
Yeah you shouldnt really buy overpriced HyperX headsets just because you like the logo. :D And HyperX is actually HP since they bought it which means absolute trash cheap products for premium prices just like Dell. 🙂
I would personally recommend KOSS brand when it comes to headphones, you should even get lifetime warranty on them. Those gaming brands like HyperX, Steel Series, Razer etc. are trully the worst when it comes to quality, so just take refund instead of replacement and buy quality stuff for same price.