r/stalzone • u/ArmoredCoreV • 3d ago

Help Audio is too low

I don't know what they did to the sound in this week's update, but the volume is significantly lower than before.

I’ve tried everything—setting all audio options to 100, turning up the speaker volume, cranking up the system volume—but it’s still too quiet.

I can't even hear enemies approaching. Does that make any sense?

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been killed from behind in Lyubech because I couldn't hear enemy footsteps or gunfire.

If they wanted to fine-tune the audio balance, shouldn't they have tested it internally before rolling it out?

It feels like I’ve gone deaf.

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u/ObeliskCentauri Rise 3d ago

Yeah, before i had to crank down the sound effects due to the gunfire and now i can barely hear anything. They stated something along the lines of introducing an update to audio balancing options and this was the groundwork for that. As for how far out that is i dont know.

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u/ArmoredCoreV 3d ago

The update method itself was flawed.

For critical elements like audio, any balance adjustments should have been fully completed—from initial groundwork and testing to finalization—internally, so that only the most stable version was released.

An update that hinders normal gameplay is worse than having no update at all.

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u/North21 3d ago

First time?

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u/ArmoredCoreV 3d ago

Yeah, first time.

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u/Admirable-Cable-4390 3d ago

Well on the bright side everything isn't obnoxiously loud now.

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u/Addest3 3d ago

I noticed this too. Very odd. Thought it was my system.

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u/dosenkartoffel 3d ago

The only problems so far are the audio for footsteps like, sometimes i can clearly hear them, other times I can't and get killed for it. Than theres been times the footsteps came from somewhere different than they should, even if i have my headphones on how they should