They really need to do something about the loud screams

[XLbuff]

I genuinely can't play for long because the loud long screams give me a headache. Even without headphones, playing as killer is a ton of screams from every hook. Since they are making accessibility features, why not add a volume setting for hook screams? No way they should make players sick for the sake of "balance" or "realism".

[Grandpa Crack Pipe]

What, you don't like the
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ?

[♋︎ What's A Plumbus? ☂]

slap them then on hook. its used to cloud the sound around you for balance reasons.

[Leah]

Turn your volume down, if your headphones make it impossible to hear footsteps without making screams too loud, then your headphones have pretty mediocre audio.

[Evilnapkin]

I am pretty sure the screams got longer. That or I am just that fatigued by them.

[Cayde 6's Butt Plug]

Originally posted by Evilnapkin:

I am pretty sure the screams got longer. That or I am just that fatigued by them.

they did get longer. according to a previous update the shorter screams were a bug.. which noone asked them to fix,but thats BHVR for you lol

[Evilnapkin]

Originally posted by Hex:♥♥♥♥&BallTorture:

Originally posted by Evilnapkin:

I am pretty sure the screams got longer. That or I am just that fatigued by them.

they did get longer. according to a previous update the shorter screams were a bug.. which noone asked them to fix,but thats BHVR for you lol

The guy from Stranger Things got hooked and I swear he screamed for 10 seconds lol

[ente000]

Google for Sound Lock, its a nice tool to limit your sound.

[Oni]

[manpotionTTV]

Originally posted by Leah:

Turn your volume down, if your headphones make it impossible to hear footsteps without making screams too loud, then your headphones have pretty mediocre audio.

That's some incredible mental gymnastics you did there to justify the game's bad audio mixing.

[Leah]

Originally posted by manpotionTTV:

That's some incredible mental gymnastics you did there to justify the game's bad audio mixing.

Mental gymnastics isn't when someone points out that your headphones are bad quality.
When you're using ♥♥♥♥ hardware, expect the product to not be as intended, The real mental gymnastics is how the game developers should adapt the game to people wanting to hear footsteps while having said bad hardware, there's no issue with the audio mixing when it comes to screams.

[TKOdarkshadow]

Originally posted by Twerky Twerki:

slap them then on hook. its used to cloud the sound around you for balance reasons.

They didn't even make the screams the same volume. They're just not great devs.

[Harmonica]

The screams don't get me but there's plenty of games with sound effects that really get under my skin so I share your pain. Usually just randomly added in an update with no mention as to why, and they are incredibly annoying. Always makes me wonder about how they have nobody on staff who shares those issues.

Hopefully your headset has sound equalization settings. If not, and you're sensitivive to sounds, you might want to invest in one. Just increasing the quality of the sound might solve your headaches, but if not you can dial down the high frequency stuff a little.

More sound options would always be nice. I guess there's a small advantage to killers turning the screams off (easier to hear pain sounds near to the hook) but it's pretty marginal stuff and not really worth bothering about.

[Begun]

Originally posted by Harmonica:

Hopefully your headset has sound equalization settings. If not, and you're sensitivive to sounds, you might want to invest in one. Just increasing the quality of the sound might solve your headaches, but if not you can dial down the high frequency stuff a little.

How do I know if my headset has equalization settings? and I'm really layman about those things, what's equalization? I know it's about lowing some sounds and increasing some that are already too low, Like you said screams/walk sounds. and what did you mean here? "but if not you can dial down the high frequency stuff a little."

[Burger]

yo quick tip hitting people on hook stops the scream early(people might accuse you of being toxic for it though)

[egs]

Originally posted by Begun:

Originally posted by Harmonica:

Hopefully your headset has sound equalization settings. If not, and you're sensitivive to sounds, you might want to invest in one. Just increasing the quality of the sound might solve your headaches, but if not you can dial down the high frequency stuff a little.

How do I know if my headset has equalization settings? and I'm really layman about those things, what's equalization? I know it's about lowing some sounds and increasing some that are already too low, Like you said screams/walk sounds. and what did you mean here? "but if not you can dial down the high frequency stuff a little."
:luv:

EQ is made to make all frequency range ~equal in loudness due to the imperfection of playback hardware and people's ears.
Until this procedure is done some proper way, some frequencies and sounds may sound louder or quieter than others, some sounds may cause headache and tinnitus (like high pitched screams).