Great so far, but DEAR GOD PLEASE ADD DIFFERNT VOLUME SLIDERS FOR GAME AUDIO AND MIC AUDIO

please do a diffrent sound setting, i want to volume up my friend and volume down the game sounds

the game needs at least two different sliders for game audio and voice audio. i understand the vision for the immersion of proximity voice chat, but this is just mandatory to have. also volume level was too low in my experience - i literally cannot hear anybody over 5-10 meters. and the performance is not great. low level graphics are playable, but render distance is like 15 meters for some objects. the game wasn't able to launch on linux without custom launch parameters. aside from these issues, i liked the mechanics and the whole feel of the game. if audio problems will be resolved in the near future, i can recommend the game.

update on 2026-08-05 (both here and in the comments):

some clarifications about performance:

while i have a graphics card that is almost 10 years old and was even then mid-range - gtx 1050ti - the minimum required gpu is gtx 750ti. while the difference between these two cards is not huge, maybe i expected a bit too much.

game on medium in my case is basically unplayable (at least with 100% render, i haven't tried any other values. i think in this game, where you often need to see things clearly, it's not a good solution to the problem). i get less than 30 fps and the frames are constantly dropping.

so i played on low and very low, and i can play like that. frames are okay (from 60 to 90, but there are also massive drops). however, even in the starting location, my first experience with these presets was the render distance for some objects. a seat in literally 15 meters from me just wasn't visible at all. in normal gameplay some trees, rocks and bushes are appearing from nowhere, requiring me to occasionally reroute.

the drastic difference between medium and anything below is probably because of the lighting and shadows. it would be great if the game had different sliders and more granular settings for graphics: shadows, render distance, maybe even texture resolution.

my cpu is ryzen 5 5600g (integrated graphics are disabled in uefi), so i am not cpu bound (at least i hope so). thinking back, probably this level of performance is expected from my setup.

however, my friends have much more powerful setups, and they also have some performance concerns. for example, one person with 9070xt gpu and 7800x3d cpu (both amd) on windows 11 had frames ranging from 70 to 250 fps on highest settings. while 200+ fps is amazing, these lows with 70 fps are not great.

some clarifications about linux:

performance on linux with proton on my system tends to be better than on windows, but in margins of error, so linux is not an issue. i can guarantee than performance is going to be identical on both systems.

as for launch parameters, probably it's a problem in my specific setup (wayland compositor, xwayland or nvidia drivers), but i was unable to launch the game as-is. if it helps somebody, i needed to use `PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1`.

a clarification about audio:

some people wrote in the comments that "the audio should work this way" and "this simulates real world experience". however, i don't agree with that. you are going to hear people in real life on even further distance. yes, the locations are mostly open, so audio has less objects to reflect from, but the current distance of audio propagation is just absurd.

as a funny solution to this problem, we had a person with a backpack and two radios (walkie-talkie, but i am going to write as radio): one in the backpack and one in the hands. the person talked into the radio, the radio on the backpack repeats his words to us and we can hear them clearly on the distance where we can't hear his words from him directly. i don't think it should work this way.

radio's proximity distance is, what i think, the distance for proximity voice chat should have been. it really is optimal in my experience. and otherwise it doesn't make any sense, because you can circumvent voice chat distance like we did. radio should have the same distance of propagation as a person just talking directly and vice versa.

my review is still positive and i recommend the game, because:

- even with these issues, i still like the game. i haven't elaborated on that much, but the core gameplay is great. i waited for this game's release and, in terms of the gameplay, everything is good so far.

- while the audio problems are still here, they are bearable. and the developers have said that they are already working on the fix.