Hearing voices.

[Kyrth]

Survival mode.

I've been hearing men & women crying during this blizzard at paradise meadows farm, has anyone else experienced similar disturbances?

kinda unnerves me a little, as the woman sounds like she's sobbing in the nearby woods while the male cries are more like pained grunts coming from around the barn area.

[deelee58]

Wow....nope however the ambient sounds are unnerving on occassion. Sometimes sounds like wolf barks or bear growls and even foot steps. I figure it is just a conglomeration of sounds within the game just to keep me on my toes. LOL

[Rhapsody]

It's probably nothing.

I hope it's nothing.

[rhwilson1953]

You know it is October and Halloween is coming up. :-D

[Blizzard Walker]

I have never heard the human like voices during a blizzard at Paradise Meadows Farm or elsewhere.

What I have heard that I thought odd was the sound of a jet plane for a few moments after I leave an indoor location going outside. The sound continues for a few seconds and then stops.

[IFIYGD]

Originally posted by Blizzard Walker:

I have never heard the human like voices during a blizzard at Paradise Meadows Farm or elsewhere.

What I have heard that I thought odd was the sound of a jet plane for a few moments after I leave an indoor location going outside. The sound continues for a few seconds and then stops.

There was a bug a good while ago that affected the audio in coastal regions, where the sounds of the water and waves would loop in a timing that caused them to blend together and made it sound like a jet was flying overhead. There were a good number of threads about it both here and on the online forums, and the bug did get fixed (it's been years since I heard that sound), but it is possible that the bug came back with the last update or hotifix, if you are still hearing it, or a new similar bug if you are hearing it in locations away from the coastline (places where no tidal sounds of the waves should be heard). Could also explain the OP's situation, if there are normal ambient sounds playing on a loop in a specific timing that makes wolf howls or building creaks or trees groaning and creaking or high winds produce something that sounds like humans wailing or grunting repeatedly.

OP- submit a bug report, and attach your session log from a save where this is happening. If you can capture a video with full audio of it while it is happening, you can link to the video (if you publish it on Twitch or YouTube or Vimeo) by pasting the link into the text field on the report form: https://hinterlandgames.zendesk.com/
It may be a bug, or it may be that the game is succeeding at creeping you out and making you think you are hearing things that aren't there.

[Battlegiraffe]

As you probably know, there is a quest in Wintermute story mode that involves finding and rescuing survivors of the large passenger plane from up on the ridge. They have all made it down into the valley below, but have crawled off into locations you wouldn't normally visit, some near the farmhouse, some near the barn, etc. When you're near them, you CAN hear the women whimpering or sobbing, and the men grunting or crying out. I wonder if the game's sound files may have gotten mixed, and the game might be accessing those story mode sound files during your survivor mode runs.

Even in story mode, the sound of the distant whimpering and sobbing IS unnerving, especially during a blizzard. And most of this quest seems to take place during a blizzard.

[Blizzard Walker]

Originally posted by IFIYGD:

Originally posted by Blizzard Walker:

I have never heard the human like voices during a blizzard at Paradise Meadows Farm or elsewhere.

What I have heard that I thought odd was the sound of a jet plane for a few moments after I leave an indoor location going outside. The sound continues for a few seconds and then stops.

There was a bug a good while ago that affected the audio in coastal regions, where the sounds of the water and waves would loop in a timing that caused them to blend together and made it sound like a jet was flying overhead. There were a good number of threads about it both here and on the online forums, and the bug did get fixed (it's been years since I heard that sound), but it is possible that the bug came back with the last update or hotifix, if you are still hearing it, or a new similar bug if you are hearing it in locations away from the coastline (places where no tidal sounds of the waves should be heard). Could also explain the OP's situation, if there are normal ambient sounds playing on a loop in a specific timing that makes wolf howls or building creaks or trees groaning and creaking or high winds produce something that sounds like humans wailing or grunting repeatedly.

OP- submit a bug report, and attach your session log from a save where this is happening. If you can capture a video with full audio of it while it is happening, you can link to the video (if you publish it on Twitch or YouTube or Vimeo) by pasting the link into the text field on the report form: https://hinterlandgames.zendesk.com/
It may be a bug, or it may be that the game is succeeding at creeping you out and making you think you are hearing things that aren't there.

IFIYGD, yes - I believe you hit upon the problem of the jet plane sound I described.

I have noticed this sound a the CH Fishing Cabins and at BI Cannery Workers Residences - other coastal locations.

[Scavenger]

I must say i have this happen as well, also wolves growling. I'm not sure if it's intentional of the devs, or just some auditory illusion thing, like hearing the sea in a seashell.

[behemoth227]

Originally posted by Battlegiraffe:

As you probably know, there is a quest in Wintermute story mode that involves finding and rescuing survivors of the large passenger plane from up on the ridge. They have all made it down into the valley below, but have crawled off into locations you wouldn't normally visit, some near the farmhouse, some near the barn, etc. When you're near them, you CAN hear the women whimpering or sobbing, and the men grunting or crying out. I wonder if the game's sound files may have gotten mixed, and the game might be accessing those story mode sound files during your survivor mode runs.

Even in story mode, the sound of the distant whimpering and sobbing IS unnerving, especially during a blizzard. And most of this quest seems to take place during a blizzard.

I'd guess this is the cause. Where, specifically, are you hearing this? 3 distinct locations? Near the roadside hill by the main house?
Along the river south of the main road?
North of the out buldings, across the river, in the birch trees?

[havoc20]

In the den near the plane crash (survival mode) I once had an issue with a creepy occurance of bear growl breathing/sleeping sounds all through the night... Double checked everything with itchy trigger finger at my rifle in and outside the den and no wolfes/bears near my location.
TLD IS in fact a horror game sometimes xD

[rhwilson1953]

Originally posted by mskitty:

The moaning might be coming from the basement, could be a hidden room behind a wall, somebody should go down there and look...

Are you kidding? You ain't gettin me to go down there.

[H34VY_R41N]

You, mates, gave me creeps.

[rhwilson1953]

Originally posted by H34VY_R41N:

You, mates, gave me creeps.:lunar2019shockedpig:

H34VY R41N, I gotta ask is this the way you spell heavy rain or is it code to bring the evils of the underworld upon us.

[Battlegiraffe]

Originally posted by havoc20:

In the den near the plane crash (survival mode) I once had an issue with a creepy occurance of bear growl breathing/sleeping sounds all through the night... Double checked everything with itchy trigger finger at my rifle in and outside the den and no wolfes/bears near my location.
TLD IS in fact a horror game sometimes xD

This sounds similar to an experience I had in Timberwolf Mountain, in the region near Eric's Falls and the Waterfall Cave--I could definitely hear a bear chasing me, breathing down my neck, huffing and gruffing. But when I turned around, he wasn't there. No attack, even though I could hear him clearly very close to me. I finally reported it to the devs, and chalked it up to a bear accidentally getting "caught" inside the scenery - the bear was "inside" the rocks and the hill beside me. It could still track me and could obviously "run" after me, but it was kinda like in the Upside Down - in a neighboring dimension but not able to touch me. Very strange.

[H34VY_R41N]

Originally posted by rhwilson1953:

Originally posted by H34VY_R41N:

You, mates, gave me creeps.

H34VY R41N, I gotta ask is this the way you spell heavy rain or is it code to bring the evils of the underworld upon us.

Both )