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Did you realize how bad the sound quality in Assassins Creed Valhalla is?
- Thread starter Imur
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That depends on what you are using without headphones. It's pretty bad with my surround system. Of course you won't notice it with TV speakers. Everything is garbage with them.
I used the vocal setting on my sound bar which produced a half way decent sound.
The stereo setting was just okay, while Atmos had a tinny/hollow sound with reverb.
Headphones are the way to go.
It's easily the worst sound quality I've heard in the last 15 years of gaming and part of why I've stopped playing the game. I loved Origins and Odyssey, but unless there's some MAJOR patching and improvements done to this one it'll be the first AC I started and didn't finish since 3.
Before DigitalFoundry, barely any games got shit for terrible framerate. Looks like we need DF but for audio.
i've noticed this on several games while playing with nice headphones. is it simply a matter of space/compression? did they cheap out on the ADR sessions? i can't imagine higher quality audio would make a noticeable dent in processing overhead. i don't know why we can't get high quality audio patches if we can get HD texture packs
I play everything with headphones so low quality sound is very noticeable to me but coming from Demon Souls with 3D audio enabled to this was like night and day.
Holy shit its like they recorded the audio under water is very bad lol turn off that 3D audio ASAP. It doesn't make it amazing or anything but still much better.
Holy shit its like they recorded the audio under water is very bad lol turn off that 3D audio ASAP. It doesn't make it amazing or anything but still much better.
Of course not, media critic reviews can't be relied upon to highlight any technical issues unless it's game breaking bugs or frame rate so bad the game barely runs.
Just started this the other day and it is really affecting my enjoyment of the game, to be honest. It just really takes you out of the experience.
It wasn't noticeably bad to me. Maybe the levels were a bit off but I didn't think it sounded poor quality. Clearly I don't have as good ears as others.
I don't notice it on my Sonos Beam but do notice it with the Sony Pulse 3D headset. (Noting my setup because it might be more noticable on a more expensive surround sound setup, but the Beam is a pretty simple soundbar.) Don't think it's a dealbreaker personally, still enjoying the game.
I shit you not. My 7 year old came down and saw me playing for a few minutes, and commented on how the sound is bad and sounds like an old game. Obviously he cant fully explain why but after asking more questions he was referring to overall quality, not the fact that it takes place in the past ( how would he know that anyway?)
How in hell did this make it to release? Like, literally no one tested the game with the sound on ? Someone in charge of the sound thought, eh, 70kbps sounds good enough for a next gen AAA game ? I can't even understand how this is possible.
Glad someone pointed this out!
I've had huge troubles with Capcom games in the past with their audio being similar, I've got no idea what they're doing over there but not great for the games.
I've had huge troubles with Capcom games in the past with their audio being similar, I've got no idea what they're doing over there but not great for the games.
RE2R sounds very good, but other than they range from mediocre to bad as well. I remember RE5 sounding absolutely terrible.
It's bad for me aswell. Playing with an Arctis 7 and i never experienced such bad Audio ever. This will probably never get fixed so i just deal with it, whatever. But this is unacceptable for a game that big...
Massive new patch out. There's an audio section in the notes but no mention of improved audio
www.express.co.uk
Assassin's Creed Valhalla update 1.1.1 patch notes REVEALED
ASSASSIN'S Creed Valhalla fans can download a huge new update on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One and PC.
www.express.co.uk
Massive new patch out. There's an audio section in the notes but no mention of improved audio
Assassin's Creed Valhalla update 1.1.1 patch notes REVEALED
ASSASSIN'S Creed Valhalla fans can download a huge new update on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One and PC.
It's likely this isn't something they consider needs fixing. Otherwise it wouldn't have released in such a poor state in the first place.
Just started playing this game on PS5 and noticed some sounds are good (like footsteps walking through snow or dirt) but other sounds are TERRIBLE (like when your axe hits an enemy)
Just weird as hell
Just weird as hell
I noticed straight away and spent the first hour or so jumping in and out of my TV and Xbox menus trying to figure out what was wrong.
Playing Odyssey at the moment and the sound is horrendous in that game. It's like every spoken line was recorded on different equipment and put into the game by a different person.
One character will say two lines of dialogue that don't feel like they were spoken together and sometimes even sounds like two different characters. Some of this is down to the substandard voice performance (and probably direction) but also when the performance feels more consistent the sound quality lets it down.
One character will say two lines of dialogue that don't feel like they were spoken together and sometimes even sounds like two different characters. Some of this is down to the substandard voice performance (and probably direction) but also when the performance feels more consistent the sound quality lets it down.
Valhalla is even worse in this regard. There were times I thought they'd gotten their VAs to record their lines from home and email them in, it sounds atrocious.
I have HyperX Cloud 2's for reference
I went from Demon's Souls to Valhalla, and I had to just sell the game it was so bad. I'm not a huge audiophile, but it was jarring how bad the sound quality was. I was nervous Immortals would have the same issue but it sounds just fine.
I went from Demon's Souls to Valhalla, and I had to just sell the game it was so bad. I'm not a huge audiophile, but it was jarring how bad the sound quality was. I was nervous Immortals would have the same issue but it sounds just fine.
So how does it work then? They had poor sound quality and mixing since at least Origins and for Valhalla they made the decision to compress it further to make it sound even worse. I'm not sure they've given any indication that consider this a problem in the last 3 games, they all sound bad and have received any sort of "fixes".
The snow footsteps is one of the worse sound effects in the game.
That could have made sense had the last 2 games not had awful sounding dialog quality too.