I havent read any patch notes regarding any sound changes, so yeah, its probably SoE screwing up the game as per usual.
Now that you mention it... I had not noticed anything, but my wife looked at my screen last night and asked if that was the same game I had been playing. Her words, "It sounds different".
I have noticed that the sound quality seems low, very compressed. Definitely noticeable with headphones. I'm also running into an issue where my sound channels reverse or merge while playing. It is very disorienting when it happens. Restarting the game or messing with the assigned sound card in the settings seems to fix it for a little while.
I have not noticed lower quality or volume. Then again my speakers are loud enough that I need to have the master volume in-game at 0.50, and limit the volume in the volume mixer to 35 just to have the game quiet enough to be acceptable.
I did some tests, the audio was compressed, ps2 is regressing. The sound of gunfire, explosions and motors is now poor.
what the heck man, i have onboard realtek sound and a low end headset i bought on ebay for $12 and even i could tell the difference the moment i loaded the game after patching admittedly i did think it was just voice packs at first that got trashed from the update, but to be fair i have all the volumes turned down to %40 percent and usually have voice chat program running with the volume up on that and play with friends.
If it just the voices I turned them off sometime ago I am also using a realtek onboard sound card with the audio rate at 24 bits 192khz, and a really nice set of desktop speakers.
Yup, I find the voice callouts noticeably lower quality than before. Also some cases of them being played multiple times, and it's difficult to determine their source.
yeah man, first low quality callouts like man talking in half life 1 then i reinstalled planetside , game sounds decrased very very low almost i cant hear
I hope this isn't anything to do with the PS4. The PC code and PS4 code should be entirely separate, imo. The PC will always be able to deal with more stuff, better. The PC version should not be made worse just to shoe-horn it onto the PS4.
omg i made the same comment to a friend of mine last night, and i think this is the reason. perhaps it is developers cutting corners or cross platform compatibilty or even file integrity checks to make sure that game files are not being altered by hacks and so they need to have ps4 and pc files to be the same, who the hell knows, regardless, it is lame. once again we have a perfect example of consolization at work here, console industry holding up the rest of the gaming industry.
I noticed it instantly. Ingame voices are tinny and much lower quality. It has really lowered my enjoyment of the game.
ALL of my in game audio chat is down as of last patch. This has become common for me, and my outfit, thus not local, so I will not point fingers at the patch. On the other hand my general overall sound did take a nose dive on foreign servers since the patch. I notice direct correlation between my connection rate and my buzzy laggy or even silent clips as far as sound problems. Hope this helps
I noticed same thing, thought my headphones were going bad, then tried the Razer 5.1 emulation program from https://www.planetside2.com/feed did not seem to help with volume, but ingame sfx did seem to actually sound better. Ingame voice chat channels occasionally don't work for me also.
Yeah for me all audio chat went down post patch. When one goes down, another is usually functional. Today, not the case. Everything from proximity to outfit was broken. Unlike chat, the gameplay sound bugging/glitching seems directly related to connection/speed/rate issues. Try solving that and you might get lucky. Best of luck. And remember, it is not always you, or something you can fix, so IF you change something and nothing improves, try your best to document what to change back to default or previous settings what you changed.
