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 suspect this is caused by a bad audio stack and cue-ing logic. What I mean is, during combat and general play you can hear effects for actions and units that are already dead. Essentially the game is "stacking up" audio cues it needs then playing them. But they are not getting "cleared" from memory on a units death. So you can run around hearing wraiths screeching, Kett shouting for support with nothing in the area etc.
So what I suspect is happening is this is all getting stacked up, then a minor de-sync or error in the audio is causesing it to get stuck and fail to play an audio file. That then blocks everything else, and you then have zero sound.
@lexandro_AlbionYes kind of. The audio queuing is a bot odd, like I'm lying there having been taken out by an Ascendant or Fiend and a team mate goes down, then my character says 'On my way' or something. Because its peer to peer all that info needs to be passed through the Host, so a bad network makes it more likely. It should work fine if the network between players is good.
I think there is a sound channel issue as well. Some kind of sharing conflict. So running other audio apps is a big no. I noticed it happening predominantly when one of the players had their sound icon switching between speaker and microphone a lot in the lobby. I tended to quit the match at that point or mute the player. Especially in the case of one player I knew had a bad connection. I do wonder if its partially caused by Discord or some other party audio share software, and that could be down to sound channel set up. Has not been that big an issue prior to patch 1.09 but I've had it happen 3 times since the patch.
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Also there has been so many times after a hydra has been taken down, you can hear residual sound of the hydra's walking even though it has been killed and its model removed from the map already. I can't be the only person who has noticed this ?
The phantom Hydra footsteps has be there since launch, occasionally you can hear phantom fiends as well.
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