Voice/Sound Bug?

[Johnny Cash Flow]

Just purchased Remnant.
Start up game.
Beginning cut scene has audio but no voice; had to read subtitles (figured it was part of the game)
Go through tutorial, full sound, no issues.
Cut scene after tutorial, full sound and voice of characters.
In bed, talking to child, sound but no voice of kid, only subtitles.

Thought it was all just part of the game until I searched on YouPubes and realized that it is not. Cannot find any information online regarding this issue.

I have DirectX 12 and updated NVIDIA drivers.

Edit: Upon further playing, some voices, such as Mcabe's, sounds like she's at the end of a long hallway.
In order to work around this, I have turned down the "Sound" option and kept the "Voice" option at 100; then cranked up my speakers. Though finding out the root of the issue would still be nice.

[Darksidewalker]

And now you realize that your gpu has nothing to do with your sound-chip.

[Johnny Cash Flow]

Originally posted by Darksidewalker:

And now you realize that your gpu has nothing to do with your sound-chip. :praisesun:

And now you realize that there are many reasons why bugs occur and the first thing everyone says to do is to update drivers; so putting them in an opening discussion, regarding a bug, helps bypass the typical response in order to get to the heart of the issue.

Thanks for your non-help. Your wisdom is truly boundless.

[Juicy]

I myself have never ran into this problem, the only thing I can think of is maybe verify files, see if some are missing or maybe downloaded wrong? Might be worth a try, sorry I wasn't much help but as I hadn't seen this comment yet thought I'd throw it on here

[Johnny Cash Flow]

Originally posted by Juicy:

I myself have never ran into this problem, the only thing I can think of is maybe verify files, see if some are missing or maybe downloaded wrong? Might be worth a try, sorry I wasn't much help but as I hadn't seen this comment yet thought I'd throw it on here

Thanks. Yeah, that's what I was going to attempt after I finish this session. Enjoying the game too much to bother doing that right now lol

[lhj]

After the opening rescue scene my game lost voices also. Did you manage to solve your problem?

[Johnny Cash Flow]

Originally posted by lhj:

After the opening rescue scene my game lost voices also. Did you manage to solve your problem?

Not really. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I've found that when I use my headphones (Razer Tiamat) the sound works, but when it comes through the speakers (Bose) it seems to sound faint (again, as if the voice is far away or down a tunnel).

I ended up turning down the Sound while keeping the Voice up to 100, and that seems to help slightly.

Sorry, but that's the best I've been able to do thus far.

[Domwin]

I had a friend pick the game up recently so I reinstalled to play with him. I was getting my character past the intro and I am having the same issue. I did notice that in cases where you talk to someone and you can control the camera, if you start their dialogue and rotate the camera so the talking NPC is closer the voice acting comes through louder.

I would guess this is something that is programmed into the game so that distant sounds come in quieter, but it's a bit annoying when it's dialogue and you can't hear it. In the case of Dialogue I would say this is a bug.

[Seafarinhare]

I think I ran into this bug on my first launch too. Not sure what happened, but I never ran into it again after relaunching the game.

[Zenbe]

I'm having the same problem.
Started the game:

• The intro was fully voiced.
  
• During the cutscene where the PC gets rescued only the guy with the assault rifle was voiced, Ellen wasn't.
  
• In the cutscene where you wake up after getting rescued, Wallace wasn't voiced.

I have no idea why this happens or how to fix this problem.

EDIT: Yes, I did restart the game multiple times to check, and it always happened.
However, using heaphones (instead of speakers) that are directly connected to my computer fixes the issue for some reason.
It's really weird. I never had an issue like this with any other game.

[Erlend]

I don't expect anybody will read this old thread, but I had the exact same issues (thanks @Enzbe for providing such a detailed description!) and found a fix that worked (for me). I encountered a similar problem with Sekiro, in which the (original Japanese) intro featured voice-over from the master (the 'owl') that faded into the distance when it didn't seem like it should have.

The problem, as I understand it, is when surround sound is piped through in stereo (i.e. such as when using headphones) without mixing down to 2 channels. In my case, I was using a Focusrite 2i4 audio interface with stereo (non-surround) headphones in Linux, the solution was to edit pulseaudio settings. I followed the instructions here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxaudio/comments/84uj9w/comment/dvtkxb1/