The screaming

[ᴺᵉᶜᵏˢˡⁱᶜᵉʳ]

Is there a way to block it? its fooking annoying

[Petite Luka]

If you think it's loud, perhaps you should lower the overall game's audio. Having your game at 100% would just hurt your ears in the long run.
I don't think making yourself deaf is worth the advantage in a casual game.

[Squire]

just alt tab as your get hooked

[Squeaky Fengy]

Alt-Tab as soon as the survivor get hooked. It work flawless when there is no other window (or program) opened.

[The Toblin]

I would really, really love a volume slider specifically for the screams. It's honestly painfully loud.

[Buckshot]

It would be really nice to have an accessibility option to specifically use lower volumes for screams

[Gadzooks]

both the new survivors that scream on the hook are obnoxious.. i had to semi afk to turn my sound down on how bad it was..
i honestly wish the devs would make a seperate sound option for screams,etc and then have the main audio settings, i dont want to hear the screams but keep the original ingame volume the same.

[Lobsterkuln]

I hit alt+tab right before I'm hooked and tab back in quickly and I don't get to hear a scream at all.

[Burger]

hit on hook for the really bad surv screams that last ages

[Oni]

Scream Volume Slider has been one of the highly requested QoL feature since DbD launched

it took 7 years to lower Hillbilly's chainsaw noise volume and 6 years for Colorblind Accessibility and Audio Heartbeat accessibility

DbD is "many" years behind from where it should be in QoL

[Raft]

This thread reminded me of my suggestion thread: "Help us avoid scream/earblast-induced hearing loss" on 30 Mar 2024. Feel free to +1 it.

I think BHVR has a lot on their plate. I think they would prioritize bugfixes, gameplay balance, UE5 teething issues, and direct revenue generating issues over these QoL features. DBD is fairly large game now. It's tricky to avoid breaking 10 parts while updating 1 part. Don't know if throwing money at the problem is enough.

In the meantime, I'll just shift+tab when I'm about to hook a survivor. I have way too many apps/windows open at the same time. Alt+tab is a bad idea because I completely lose sight of the game for a bit. With shift+tab, I maintain partial field of view.

[A Generic Name]

Volume normalisation (Windows sound settings). Equalisers. Compressors. SoundLock - I'd recommend this to make all sounds the same volume. Crank your PC volume up to 100, set SoundLock to a low volume, no more loud screams.

Other than that, there are only the suggestions given already.

[Raft]

Originally posted by A Generic Name:

Volume normalisation. Equalisers. Compressors. SoundLock.

I tried equalisers. When you've tried and tested something that works specifically with DBD screams, then suggest again.

[A Generic Name]

Originally posted by Raft:

Originally posted by A Generic Name:

Volume normalisation. Equalisers. Compressors. SoundLock.

I tried equalisers. When you've tried and tested something that works specifically with DBD screams, then suggest again.

SoundLock. Volume normalisation will do the same, but SoundLock is better at it and doesn't mute other sounds.

[Raft]

Originally posted by A Generic Name:

Originally posted by Raft:

I tried equalisers. When you've tried and tested something that works specifically with DBD screams, then suggest again.

SoundLock.

You've tested this with DBD survivor screams?

[A Generic Name]

Originally posted by Raft:

Originally posted by A Generic Name:

SoundLock.

You've tested this with DBD survivor screams?

I use it.