(REAL) ISSUES I ENCOUNTERED (already, and I just finished the garage scene)

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1. Audio issues:

1a. Dialogue is very jarring due to people talking over each other, like someone inserting "Yes, I agree" while someone talking, which was most likely intended, but there is no pause, break, or anything like that.

1b. Audio quality: Autumn in the present times has bit crushed audio, like those unsettling 2000s horror videos that people make, where they bit crush the voices of monsters and like "skin walkers" into oblivion.

1c. Mostly related to Swann, the actresses mic quality is noticably different in different scenes or sentences. I would have let it slide if they didn't have the audacity to insert a newly recorded "Congratulations!" inside a sentence that had a completely different voice quality. Like, fine, do it with different sentences, but really? The same sentence?!

1d. Too loud, too quiet! In two different time periods, when characters are the same length towards the camera, present time voices are VERY loud, and past voices are VERY quiet. Cannot be an issue with voice range setting! I lowered the audio volume but now i get music blasting in my ears, don't get me wrong... it's a good music, but still man!

1e. When Corey and Dylan are talking and we can sorta hear them, their mouths do not move, and their voices are very muffled, as if there is another duo of people somewhere around us. Noticable mostly when we are on Movie Palace roof. It's like map makers inserted an ambience node in a wrong area, and it interacts with whatever wwise does with audio muffling in a wrong way.

1f. When we are at the bar in present time, we can hear muffled audio of FULLY CROWDED Bar ambience, while the bar is quite literally not occupied with anyone. Also that ambience noise is coming from the general area where there is a wall with the street on the other side of it.

1g. THE HEARTS!!!! Yall pissed me off really fast with that audio effect as well as having to weigh in all of the dialogue since apparently we literally cannot say almost anything that won't either romance us towards someone, or break their hearts??? That's a little dramatic guys! It's already jarring, this early in the game!

1h. I get it dontnod, yall do cool stuff with item interactions now, but they are very over the top sometimes. Take Autumns keys, very, VERY loud sfx.



2. Camcorder:
2a. Why is the point of interest not disappearing after we recorded a point of interest?

2b. If the point of interest, like a person, is intended to be recorded many times throughout a scene with unique dialogue each time, why not remove the outline for stuff that just doesn't?

2c. I want to be able to use a scroll wheel to zoom in a camcorder mode. Makes literally zero sense why it can't be achieved.


3. General

3a. So... are we like poly here? Do we get to romance 3 different characters at the same time? Not that there is anything wrong with that, I'm just very confused on this strange romance system that yall have apparently in this game.