No 5.1 surround sound

[yapchagi]

Why doesn't this game have 5.1 surround sound? It's 2021. The voice conversation is not coming via center speaker.

Also, the original Life is Strange has 5.1 surround sound and more graphical settings than 2021 LIS True Colors. I just hope the remastered version of the original game will still have 5.1 surround sound.

[yapchagi]

does everyone only use Stereo 2.1 speakers for their PCs here?

[eZudo]

Originally posted by yapchagi:

does everyone only use Stereo 2.1 speakers for their PCs here?

Most folks probably use headphones or headsets.

[yapchagi]

Originally posted by eZudo:

Most folks probably use headphones or headsets.

this might turn into a problem for the PC gaming industry where the devs will stop including surround sound since most of the users use headsets nowadays.

[Cattus]

Thanks for that post. I finally started playing the game and was so confused why surround doesn't seem to work (thought it was a problem with in-home-streaming).

As you said, LiS and afaik LiS 2 had 5.1 sound.

Originally posted by yapchagi:

this might turn into a problem for the PC gaming industry where the devs will stop including surround sound since most of the users use headsets nowadays.

Most people doesn't have a 5.1 sound system, yet all Netflix productions have 5.1 sound.
But for games 5.1 Sound comes normally "for free" with the Game Engine. So if an object is emitting sound anywhere, the position is exactly known, so having 5.1 or 7.1 is no extra work. So yean, having Stereo really makes no sense. :)

[Blims!]

Perhaps because this game have another developer than LiS 1 & 2.
Stereo can be so dull once you get used to surround sound.

[DElionel95]

Yup! That is just anoying! Same with the ps5 version... other life is strange gales had suround...