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Re: Could sound be the root of some balance problems?

@protoman23 wrote:
@caroliro wrote:
The vehicle sound from day one has never provided good indication of where vehicles are coming from. It seems more focused on the sound of the impact of their weapon explosions(loud and on top of you.) Now part of the frustration of being on the receiving end of the new BSV is that you have no audio or visual cues of gunfire, let alone where you are being shot from!
The BSV starts with subsonic ammo on default so by design, you aren't going to have any audio or visual cues of where you're being shot from.

That is part of my point. When you die from something you didn’t see or hear, it feels OP.

5 Replies

RMEChief
Legend
3 years ago
Spatial sound and the volume of vehicles and aircraft are so bad, it is not even funny.
XSive_Drez
3 years ago
Let's not even mention the footsteps that sound like they're coming from everywhere.
SleepyWeasel68
3 years ago
@XSive_Drez and it doesn’t help when the last part of the soundtrack on Exposure sounds like footsteps. More than once I’ve jumped up just to look around and see nothing.
XSive_Drez
3 years ago
@SleepyWeasel68 Also doesn't help that if they're on a different floor than you it still sounds like they're right beside you.
zbran1
Rising Veteran
3 years ago
I had no issues with sound until the last update. Now it's a complete mess. Before I could clearly hear where enemies were in relation to my position. The sound is now muddy and washed out, absolutely no idea where they are, it's extremely frustrating.
I've tried every combination there is in the sound menu and nothing makes a difference. It's just cycles between bad and unbelievably bad... Ironically when I'm loading into a match and you start to hear gunfire and sound effects from the match it's working perfectly I can easily telling if gunfire is in front, behind or left/right of me. Then you get into the match and the muddy mess returns.
I'm using a set of Razor headphones with THX Spatial sound.
Same thing with FPS. 98% gpu utilisation 160 fps plus when I'm loading in. As soon as you spawn in. 80 fps and 50% gpu utilisation....
8 months into the game life cycle and this is where we are......