dude, what's up with the audio?

[Keks Offender]

everything is indecisive as hell. sometimes its loud and clear, other times its just barely audible. ive noticed this with combat music and audio logs.
the cyberspace music seems to be okay-ish.

i got to research deck and there were two audio logs nearby, the first one was fine, the second one i wouldnt have understood if the subtitles werent there. is it just me?

[Maj. Crimes]

Its just you.

[Keks Offender]

Originally posted by Maj. Crimes:

Its just you.

strange

[The Dude :)]

It's the same for me.

[Keks Offender]

Originally posted by The Dude:

It's the same for me.

volume messing you around? its a shame because the music is great but in combat its not loud enough for me. all of my other games/programs are okay though.

[CoGears]

Definitely not you, the audio mixing is all over the place.

[The Dude :)]

I just found that even with voices and music turned up and everything else down, the audio balancing is suboptimal. However, logs can easily be looked up so that's not really a problem. Biggest shame is that the amazing soundtrack rarely shines through in game :/

[Doktor Mandrake]

Sound mixing sounds okay to me expect for that elevator music which seems to be too loud compared to everything else

[randir14]

What's your sound setup, I've heard people having issues using 5.1 or 7.1 where certain channels are quieter than others. I use headphones with Windows' audio set to stereo and don't have any problems.

[The Dude :)]

Originally posted by randir14:

What's your sound setup, I've heard people having issues using 5.1 or 7.1 where certain channels are quieter than others. I use headphones with Windows' audio set to stereo and don't have any problems.

I am using (emulated?) surround sound headphones. Could be an issue with that as I've noticed similar issues in some older games like Dragon Age: Origins too. But I find the surround sound quite helpful when listening for enemies around corners so I don't really want to give it up. Anyway, I expect a game released in 2023, even if it is a remake of a 1994 game, to work properly with surround sound headphones. Currently the audio balancing is suboptimal but not bad enough to really annoy me. Like I said, the biggest shame is that the great soundtrack rarely gets a chance to shine.

[LegendaryThunder]

The only audio issue I had in the game was SHODAN's final taunt welcoming you to the throne of a god, it was fairly quiet.

[Pentazer]

Originally posted by Maj. Crimes:

Its just you.

It's many people, me included.

[naswinger]

Originally posted by Pentazer:

Originally posted by Maj. Crimes:

Its just you.

It's many people, me included.

me too. i won't continue playing it until they fix the audio.

[TrantaLocked]

You're 100% right. About a fourth of audio logs are too quiet.

[???]

Haven't had any issues with audio or audio logs really outside of the bio-hazardous grove.
I noticed that the audio sounded a little off there, like it was too far to one side or the other or would just totally cut out for a few seconds after interacting with a button or something like that.
But that was only in that area and went back to sounding fine once I left.

[Keks Offender]

Originally posted by Beef:

Haven't had any issues with audio or audio logs really outside of the bio-hazardous grove.
I noticed that the audio sounded a little off there, like it was too far to one side or the other or would just totally cut out for a few seconds after interacting with a button or something like that.
But that was only in that area and went back to sounding fine once I left.

very weird how it differs from person to person.