The audio, is it broken?

[Paddy]

I've just bought the game and within a few minutes i noticed there is something wrong with the audio. It's like only some of the rifle sound effects are coming through and they are quite tinny and of low volume. Surely this has to be a bug?

[viperwolf02]

I just played the Africa campaign and the Tanks were so silent. The sound is all over the place. The weapons are so weak sounding to me. Im not sure how they did not fix this before release. I know people complained about it watching Youtube vids. How do you have tanks rolling and barely hear them?

[Lithan]

I've noticed that too. I don't know what it is - it was the same in the tech test in Janurary. First i thought that the sound settings were turned down. A couple of years, when I had a bad PC, I had sound problems if my PC was at full capacity, but in CoH3 that's clearly not the case.

It seems so, that the sound is intentinal by the developers, but it clearly sound worse than in CoH2. On the other hand it could also be a bug (if true then that should've been fixed since Janurary).

[viperwolf02]

I believe I watched a dev deep dive and they acknowledged the sound and said it would be fixed at launch. If I remember that right, or maybe i just wish I heard them say that. They also commented on the graphics bc so many complained.

[Lithan]

Originally posted by viperwolf02:

I believe I watched a dev deep dive and they acknowledged the sound and said it would be fixed at launch. If I remember that right, or maybe i just wish I heard them say that. They also commented on the graphics bc so many complained.

Do you mean the graphics in the tech test? Because they were worse than what we got with the release (they definetly made some changes). In fact, i really like the graphics now in CoH3.

[DutchToast]

had a tinker about with this. caveat here is that i play with headphones, not a full 5.1 sound set.

in the audio options, make sure quality is set to high and set 'compressed' rather than 'wide'. did wonders for me.

bear in mind that the audio was aiming to be realistic, not 'Hollywood bombastic'.

[Paddy]

Originally posted by Toasty:

had a tinker about with this. caveat here is that i play with headphones, not a full 5.1 sound set.

in the audio options, make sure quality is set to high and set 'compressed' rather than 'wide'. did wonders for me.

bear in mind that the audio was aiming to be realistic, not 'Hollywood bombastic'.

Even Hollywood bombastic doesn't come close to the true volume and shock of real war sound effects. It just needs to be at least the same quality as older titles however I'll change the settings around a bit to see if it helps. Thanks for the tip

[Slie]

Originally posted by Toasty:

had a tinker about with this. caveat here is that i play with headphones, not a full 5.1 sound set.

in the audio options, make sure quality is set to high and set 'compressed' rather than 'wide'. did wonders for me.

bear in mind that the audio was aiming to be realistic, not 'Hollywood bombastic'.

Problem is sound doesn't register when the game has too many sounds trying to layer so none play. Don't need hollywood sounds - just need sounds in general to at least register when there is more than a few units firing.

[DutchToast]

Originally posted by Slie:

Originally posted by Toasty:

had a tinker about with this. caveat here is that i play with headphones, not a full 5.1 sound set.

in the audio options, make sure quality is set to high and set 'compressed' rather than 'wide'. did wonders for me.

bear in mind that the audio was aiming to be realistic, not 'Hollywood bombastic'.

Problem is sound doesn't register when the game has too many sounds trying to layer so none play. Don't need hollywood sounds - just need sounds in general to at least register when there is more than a few units firing.

I agree. the hollywood vs realistic thing is really rather subjective.

regardless, I felt an improvement in the sound registration when setting it to 'compressed' rather than wide while playing on my headphones. not sure if it helps but seems to do for me.

[Dude]

Originally posted by Slie:

Originally posted by Toasty:

Don't need hollywood sounds - just need sounds in general to at least register when there is more than a few units firing.

As CoH 1+2 provided Hollywood sounds I expect them from CoH 3 too! I do not accept a step back.

[Gazren]

As a music producer the sound & FX are truly awful. The biggest issue at the minute is the compression levels & the stereo imaging. Its totally off!

[Paddy]

Just had a play with some settings and it doesn't work. I don't know how there isn't a bigger uproar about this. It's the worst i've EVER heard in a wargame. Rifle sounds at time barely make a sound.

[Baba Bomba]

Its not broken, It,s moobile phone quality

[Paddy]

Originally posted by Topo:

Its not broken, It,s moobile phone quality

I feel it's a bug as it's worse during certain moments, there are other moments where the sound effects from the same weapons are Great. Hopefully will be fixed soon. Still really enjoying the game