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Did you realize how bad the sound quality in Assassins Creed Valhalla is?
- Thread starter Imur
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Played 160 hours on PC with headphones and had no complaints. I thought the directional audio was good as well.
I'm FAR from an audiophile by any definition, but even watching a video of the game I knew something was very wrong. The absolute first scene is a huge, rip-roaring Viking party and the mix is atrocious, it's completely limp and anemic sounding. This dude hits the lute strings with so much gusto in the animation and the sound is just this piddly little twang, it's like something my from those "shreds" videos haha....
I think it needs to be said it's actively worse on PS5 with 3D on. At least to my ears. Bad enough that I was completely pulled out and thought something was up. People playing on PS5, try it without 3D on and you'll see. It's still not great without that on, but it at least doesn't sound like everything is under 6 layers of blankets.
I remember already saying it somewhere else that I'm not really all that hard on sound in games, but in Valhalla, even to my untrained ears, it's a constant barrage of utter shit.
To the point where after 15h mark I never used headphones again and just listened to podcasts while playing with pauses for cutscenes only.
To the point where after 15h mark I never used headphones again and just listened to podcasts while playing with pauses for cutscenes only.
I'm not a sound person (I'm a philistine, I knows it and am at peace with it) but even *I* could spot something was clearly off with sound in AC:V. I didn't play much of it, but the mix in the hall in the opening scene sounded totally wrong. Kind of... hollow.
We have a pretty good sound system the Cons or ribs through and we both thought Valhalla sounded great
My partner is a musician so usually spots bad audio fast
Running on a series x..
My partner is a musician so usually spots bad audio fast
Running on a series x..
Id wager thats how most people are, this is just the mega nerd forum.
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Wow. That's another problem, but wow. The base consoles seem to be a real problem on its own, for further development.
It's horrible. You have these big feasts with lots of characters and all you hear is random whispers on repeat. There's a scene where you rouse the crowd to take on an invading army to your camp and that same sound sample plays in a loop and there is ZERO atmosphere as a result.
The Division has pretty awesome sounding guns. I think that is we're they peaked.
The mixing yes, it's flat, like if they are always talking in the same environment.
But I cannot say it annoys me like the lightning lol
I had to tweak in-game rendering in SDR before getting back in HDR to have some accurate black-white level and it's still not perfect.
But I cannot say it annoys me like the lightning lol
I had to tweak in-game rendering in SDR before getting back in HDR to have some accurate black-white level and it's still not perfect.
The game feels all around janky (even by AC standards) from animation to sound to HDR implementation. On the bright side the sound doesn't bother me too much and I'm enjoying the game on the whole.
I noticed pretty quickly when switching between games. Reminds me of early very compressed mp3 rips vs CDs when switching between Valhalla and say, any Sony first party game. Pretty sure we had at least one thread about it before.
Even Astro's Playroom (free PS5 pack-in) really puts it to shame.
Even Astro's Playroom (free PS5 pack-in) really puts it to shame.
When you upgrade a settlement building, there's some chanting they do and it just felt too quiet to me. It should be louder and with more energy.
I'm playing with in ear headphones too.
I'm playing with in ear headphones too.
Also fix the fucking damn bug where Eivor is drunk everything you load in or respawn
Or when you do the target event and an arrow is stuck in Eivor's hand forever
Or when you do the target event and an arrow is stuck in Eivor's hand forever
I wondered what the fuck was happening to me there, and whether that was just me. Good to know it's not. I'm also getting crashes to desktop with the latest patch, seemingly random.
This as well. The HDR sliders in game are useless, no idea how should I set them, because the reference image barely changes. Game looks good outdoors in sunny areas, but way too dark at night or indoors.
Really not an audio guy, and really don't usually complain about audio. Obviously I don't like when it sounds like shit but it never really happens. During my playthrough of Valhalla I often had to doublecheck my headphones weren't broken.
I thought Odyssey's audio wasn't as bad as this game. Valhalla is dreadful. The compression is very obvious in dialogue on PC with headphones. Most importantly: I hate how the snow sounds underfoot, so it makes the game annoying to play haha
It's outrageously bad. I assumed the issue would be overblown. Nope. It's complete garbage. It's hard to believe how people play tested this throughout dev and though, yeah man, good stuff.
It's even more egregious when you jump between Demon's Souls ps5 which has incredible sound design.
It's even more egregious when you jump between Demon's Souls ps5 which has incredible sound design.
I didn't notice on my surround system but when I put on my headphones everyone had an echo.
I love ac games but this Game has a ton of freaking issues I'm gonna make a thread about them
In all fairness, for voice-only codecs, 80 kbp/s should be perfectly servicable for nearly transparent audio. If they're using it for music that's another story 😅
79 hours in or so and I've never noticed anything. I don't play with headphones ever so maybe that contributed to it, dunno.
Watch Dogs Legion's sound is so bad from the little I've played, the mixing is all wrong, coupled with the weird AI-generated voice everybody has. Absolutely terrible. Obviously the pandemic makes something like sound recording a nightmare, but it's really something that puts you out of a game when done wrong and something you don't notice when done right. Turns out audio engineers are the unsung heroes of my immersion.
It's the bitrate? I figured it would be COVID and recording from home because sometimes two different lines in the same scene from the same character have wildly different quality. Like one sounds studio quality and then one sounds like some shitty mic.
