Kill SFX way too loud

[Shadowlet]

Anyone else agree? They're raping my ears!!

[Bloodshield975]

Yea I am getting deafened by the volume, everything is on 1% currently

[Shadowlet]

No one else?

This and shield bashes. Regular slashes vs. kill slashes, there's a big difference..

[Bebeu água?]

As soon as the game begun I dropped Windows' sound to 40%

[Arthur]

Seems like Tsushima has a sound balance problem. The volume across dialogues and sound effects is very inconsistent, so sometimes a dialogue in a cutscene can be relatively low, but then a battle yell will be loud as all hell. Sucks, really, but there's not much we can do besides lowering the overall volume.

[shensil01]

I totally agree i cant play the game cuz the sound of hit and killing are WAY too loud

[Arthur]

Originally posted by shensil01:

I totally agree i cant play the game cuz the sound of hit and killing are WAY too loud

Just lower the SFX volume slider. I put mine at 50 (everything else is at 65). All good so far.

[Littlefatcat]

make sure the audio is set to the right setting for your audio device

[Brüzur]

With IEMs, I have to adjust the gain of my amp and change the audio settings to "Headphones."

And for my desktop speakers, I switch that setting to "Bookshelf."
But, for what it's worth, I have noticed some audio balance issues that occur at random with waterfall edges, combat sounds, and birds chirping.

I might change my sample rate as well, which is something I needed to do for Forbidden West to avoid random "crackle" or cut-out.

Nixxes ports don't seem to like 32-bit / 384 Hz.

[John Price]

same here. also getting this issue. sound on hitting enemy is too loud to be comfortable compared to all other sounds. hope dev will fix this soon.

[Rin]

I walked by a river and it was crazy loud.

My guess is that the sound of the river was meant to be playing out of the Dualshock 5 controller, and that audio volume didn't translate well onto PC.

[Nullpoint]

Only having issues with waterfalls - it's extreamly loud for some reason

[Al caPWN]

Literally the same boat. The last slash when you kill an enemy is extremely loud. Waterfalls are extremely loud. Everything in volume options is set to 1-2 tops, and can't enjoy the atmosphere because of it. Extremely annoying.

[Noyaa]

I started the game and it was so loud that even putting everything on 5 volume (on the 0-100 slider) the kill SFX is deafeningly loud.

[Liquescence]

same problem, I had to turn SFX down to 10 and even then it was loud, please can we get a patch for SFX?

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Although the music and effects are very good I have honestly been shocked at how badly the overall sound is produced and mastered.

I would recommend switching your audio output settings in game as it has 5 choices and I feel as though the default (home cinema) is EQ'd for completely unrealistic room and monitor sizes