loss of sound on mass effect andromeda
After a period playing mass effect andromeda in multiplayer, the audio completely cuts out leaving just voice comms playing in the background. It makes multiplayer absolutely dreadful. It is like...
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I am experiencing the same problem ever since the launch of the game. Patches 1.05 and 1.06 did not help.
It always happens when there are at least two players in a multiplayer match who use guns with high rates of fire and/or louder gunfire sounds (e.g. Scattershot, Soned, Naladen, Rozerad).
As soon as said players get near each other and unleash those machines of death and destruction audio cuts out.
To me it seems like audio channels get saturated to such an extent that some fail-safe kicks in to prevent an even greater problem. But that's a layman speaking.
My audio settings are as follows:
Dynamic Range: Medium
Speaker Configuration: Surround
Master Volume: 100%
Music Volume: 75%
SFX Volume: 75%
Dialog Volume: 100%
Subtitles: Enabled:
Ignore Window Focus: Off
PC, Digital-based install
Avanglion, i would like to have a lot more control over my audio if this was the case. I would much rather have a choice to control the amount of sound that gets pushed from the game to the audio hardware to prevent this problem from happening at all, but all we have got is the features for volume controls etc.
Either that.. or they could just fix this really awful problem because i'm quite sure it wasn't in their design to have the players of their game having to restart the game endlessly because they lose sound altogether.
Voice still works after the sound effects and music cuts out.. so its not like it kills audio altogether.
* PLEASE EA/Bioware, WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BEG FOR A FIX SHOULD WE? *
Hotfix 1.07: also no mention of a fix or improvement for this issue.
at the point of writing this, now 196 people have clicked ME TOO to this thread.
If it is a known issue with EA/Bioware, then please can we have some communication about it to say what if anything is being done about it?
If you rented a bluray movie and the sound disappears 10 minutes in, would you be happy.
If you went to the movies and the sound stopped part way through .. would you be happy? would you complain to the management and get a refund?
So why should a game as a form of entertainment be any different?
The odd sound glitch fine, but the frequency of this issue is now rampant. Yesterday i relaunched the game 5+ times in one evening of play due to the loss of sound issue.. for no other reason. This is not good.
Still happening, more often than before even.. 😕
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