Audio Bugs

[PlugLee]

Have you considered making all audio the same for everyone and not being level based? Obviously, headphones would improve audio even more, but if everyone has good audio it will prevent campers and rats from being able to move around unoticed. This fix would also encourage pvp with people in close quarters. I think it would also be easier to fix bugs in the system. Also, it makes no sense that going into a warzone would improve hearing. 

[SurveyorCC]

What?

[PlugLee]

Sorry I wrote that late at night. I think that Hearing should be the same for everyone regardless of level. That would make fixing audio bugs easier and help with encouraging pvp. It makes no sense that you level up your listening ability in a battlefield, if anything it decreases from all the explosions and gun fire. I think the perception skill can still be used to help with loot detection. 

[SurveyorCC]

2 hours ago, PlugLee said:

Sorry I wrote that late at night. I think that Hearing should be the same for everyone regardless of level. That would make fixing audio bugs easier and help with encouraging pvp. It makes no sense that you level up your listening ability in a battlefield, if anything it decreases from all the explosions and gun fire. I think the perception skill can still be used to help with loot detection. 

Ah ok, I gotcha.

Yes, hearing level is different for different people because of the RPG element.  Does it make sense?  Kinda, but not really.  I would think of it more as your perception and interpretation of the sounds get better.  Before, you just heard a gun.  Now you hear AK-47 from the northwest around 300 meters away.  Maybe that kind of thing.  When you were green, you heard a noise in Resort, was it a rat (the animal), a board creaking from humidity, or a foot scraping as someone turns?  With years of experience, now you know someone is two floors above you and squatting while turning.

But yeah, the ENTIRE sound engine needs to be dumped and reworked to actually, you know, work.  I think dumping super hearing might help a lot with that.

[Flolelan]

Am 9.6.2023 um 07:52 schrieb PlugLee:

Have you considered making all audio the same for everyone and not being level based?

you are aware that the difference is like 7m. 7m which is basically 0.8s of sprinting youll hear an player sooner with max lvl vs lvl1. 1/1000 deaths is maybe due your opponent beeing max lvl hearing. 999 are due the piss poor audio quality the game has mixed in with all the other bugs.