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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It is an old fix from ME:3 I think. As i'd lost all hope of them ever fixing this issue, i figured, why the hell not test it anyway 🙂
Not had a lot of games tonight though, only about 9 or 10 games, so not a good test session really.
With this setting I lost sound today on wave 1 of 7. Ahh well. I guess we should all get used to the fact that this problem is here to stay forever as no word from anyone who can do anything about fixing it.
I am not at all hopeful that this problem will ever be fixed. So don't be surprised if Anthem and any other products that use Frostbite engine have sound issues at this level too. I did my bit, i reported it properly, i tested every workaround possibility i could, researched it like crazy all over the web... and with no assistance from bw/ea.. ever.. this problem has been left to rot.
As shame really because even though you can add a load of new maps, do multiplayer rebalancing. introduce new characters.. the one thing that turns players off the most is gameplay issues.. especially when you have to dump a great MP team due to going tone deaf as far as audio goes.
I've asked the question to raise this again on the tonights twitch.tv multiplayer livestream. (41m:34s) dated 3rd August, 2017.
Presenting tonights live stream was Bastiaan Frank and Benoit"During one of the May livestreams you (Bioware) said that the problem with the audio cutting out in multiplayer was being passed to the Frostbite Dev Team. This was 2 months ago now.. so has there been any update on this? is it going to be fixed? and when?"
and they responded shortly afterwards when they spotted the question they answered with the following at: 42m:02s
"Yeah, the audio cut out problem is a frostbite problem globally.. so...even if they were to fix it we would not be able to fix it for our game any more? errrm that would mean 'integrations and fancy things' errm so we are always looking at that of course and frostbites gonna try and fix that. but.." the questions answer was then interrupted sadly at this point as they began reading other comments from the mass of things in the chat panel.
So the above is all I could get in any way of an update.. and it would seem the 'integrations and fancy things' are going to stop us seeing a fix for this issue. What quite that means is anyone's guess, but I would invite Bioware/EA to expand on this if they wish as I know they were near the end of a live stream at the time.
I've been losing sound on private solo matches of late, kinda makes all the blame on joiners with poor connections being the primary culprit not hold so much water.
No i think the very fact that this got forwarded by bioware to the frostbite dev team is a sure sign that the problem is within the engine. and not your connection as a joiner etc.
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