Siren Noise in Background

[House Gnome]

What is that persistent siren noise? I assume it's an animal or the wind or something, it's been raining in my game for 7 straight days and I keep hearing it intermittently. I know it's my game because if I pause when I hear the noise that siren sound stops. Whatever it is it's awful and sounds exactly like a police siren going off in the distance.

[larrysteele]

I'm pretty sure it's part of the wind sound. I know exactly the sound you're talking about because I've also paused the game to see if it was a real world siren or from the game.

[House Gnome]

I never really noticed it before, but with it being windy/rainy for almost 3 seasons straight it got really really obnoxious. I think it's the wind also, it finally stopped storming in my game and I'm not noticing it now.

[Morri]

I also sometimes hear something that vaguely resembles a police siren. Just the wind playing tricks on you. If it's any consolation; since Racimir doesn't know what a police siren sounds like, at least he isn't bothered by it..

[Eekhoorn]

I think I know what you mean. I suppose it's some ambient bird sound.
I turned down the environmental sound effects down to 30%, but it's still there. Problem is... once you've noticed it, it's hard not to hear it.

In the end I noticed the sound seems to be tied to environments with loads of trees + seasons (spring, summer for sure).
When I picked a location on the map, I heard it pretty much all the time. But now that my village has grown it's gone (probably because I chopped own a lot of trees???).
When I walk into the wooded areas behind my village, it creeps up again.

[Filip]

Hi! Can you record that sound for us?

[🎮AliveSince1961🎮]

I don't know if it's the same sound, but the blow pipe sound has been driving me crazy since early access.

Listen to the last 5 seconds;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2dsdWeV-5A

[The REAL chris]

Can you not turn it down or off in the sound settings? I don't seem to get it, but If It's foggy or raining I tend to reload the game (F9) and I do have the game music playing on a low volume. I always F5 before going to bed (in game) LOL...

Maybe the devs can work it out for you and make alterations for the next update...

[rhwilson1953]

I know this is just a game but IRL I grew up in a house without insulation, you would be surprised by the noises made even in mild winds as it finds it's way through the walls.

Those sounds in the video sounds like the wind noises you hear in a evergreen forest.

[Eekhoorn]

Originally posted by 🎮AliveSince1961🎮:

I don't know if it's the same sound, but the blow pipe sound has been driving me crazy since early access.

Listen to the last 5 seconds;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2dsdWeV-5A

Yup, that's it. You can also hear it between 3 to 5 seconds in albeit slightly lower.

[🎮AliveSince1961🎮]

In one of the discussions, they mention that the problem is with the graphics card. I've since changed cards and I can still hear it.

It gets louder in some places, but as mentioned, it can be heard where there are lots of trees.

[Eekhoorn]

I wouldn't even have guessed a GPU could be causing this :)
I have a GTX1080. You also have NVIDIA?
I even have a dedicated Soundblaster (old habits die hard).

[🎮AliveSince1961🎮]

I had a GTX 1060 Ti and now I have a GTX 1660 SUPER.

[Eekhoorn]

Well, maybe it's an NVIDIA thing then??? No idea.
Like I said: I turned down the env. sounds to 30%... that somewhat helps.
But I also turned off the music so that makes it worse...
It's more like an early game annoyance anyways. If it really bothers me I can cover it with some bardcore.

But it's nice to know I'm not the only one.

[Jon]

I use an AMD card, and have my environment sound up to hear approaching predators. From time to time in the woods I have heard a sound which seems out of place - maybe a bird sound but just not quite right. I'm guessing that is the siren sound being discussed.

[House Gnome]

I didn't hear it in the above clip and I haven't heard it in game since. However, I'm positive now it's a 'wind whistling through the trees' sound that showed up anytime the wind intensified in/near a wooded area. At the time it was driving me batty the weather effects had gone nuts for 3 straight seasons, I'm talking strong winds, rain and fog daily. Since then, the weather has been a lot more moderate so it has not come back.

I use a NVIDIA card. I have my sounds at 95% for sound and effects and 85% for environment. I game in a room with 2 other gamers, both of whom play multiplayer shooter/fighter games and are constantly yelling, so, even though I wear headphones, adjusting them isn't an option, instead I adjust my overall volume on the headphones as needed.

Also, I'm older so while I have the effects and environment up I had to set the music at 15% or it just drowned everything else out because age, so maybe my live concert damaged hearing is just sensitive to that sound/pitch.