Worst sound design ever
Apex Legends must have about the worst sound design I've ever had in a game. The gunshots are incredibly loud, even from the other side of the map. Meanwhile, footsteps can barely be heard from peopl...
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The balance is fine. Maybe you need a better headset? I rarely have any issue with hearing footsteps. 6 guns shooting hundreds of bullets should make hearing footsteps around you more difficult...
So why is it that this only happens in Apex? And I'm not talking about 6 guns nearby, I'm talking about a single gun about 700 meter away.
I think the game has excellent sound. Stand on the side of your house and listen to someone walking inside...you won't hear much. Now shoot a gun without hearing protection and tell me how loud it is. Gunshots can be heard MILES away depending on conditions. Game nailed it in my opinion.
If your using desk speakers get yourself a good headset.
Turn Dialogue and music down a lot, 10% -20% and set sound effects to the max...turn up your volume once in a game. The combat will get loud but you will hear those footsteps much better.
You have control over the balance you know. The only thing I don't like is that my teammates steps can be a bit too loud. But more often than not I will already be keeping tabs on their location.
I did tested with 2 type of headphone, studio monitor headphone and standard cheap headphone. There is so much difference between it. The game audio its just been balance with 'tight compression' with low level decibels. Basically you can hear shots from far on your headphone because the compression ratio its within the decibels on low levels signal. And i agree on this, the footstep sound having some technical issue on " certain phase". They designed the footstep sound with 360 degrees. When i used my audio technica studio monitor headphone, i can hear so clearly the footstep from enemy that they running around me or lurking, but with a low budget headphone seems kinda having issue on between 0 db to -6 db that hardly to hear. So basically having a higher impedance headphone can hear good range of low level signal but remember folks, higher impedance headphone need higher input signal, i have sound card that can able to deliver high output with low latency. With good headphone with good sound card, you can hear the difference or you can blame the audio engineer designed on this game that the signals between 360 phase are not not compatible most of the normal standard stereo headphones.
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