did you miss the whole thread with people losing their minds over this non-news lol
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Dark Souls Switch still suffers with Compressed Audio
- Thread starter Heazy
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The footage is taken from the current 'final release' (what people get on the game card or digital download). However nobody seems to know what the mythical day one patch does - it may (or may not) fix the audio issues. I guess time will tell.
I just bought it but my switch isn't with met to test anything out so I'll try it out once I get home later
Nice. We look forward to your report. :)
I was watching somebody play on Twitch last night, had to mute it after a while as so many sounds were really grating. How the devs thought this acceptable I'll never know.
I played for a bit today. There is a day one patch, not sure what was on it. I didn't have any problems with the audio but that's not to say this problem was fixed or anything
Frametime unfortunately looks as bad as the network test. The true curse of Dark Souls
your test won't tell us anything worthwhile without the patch being live.I just bought it but my switch isn't with met to test anything out so I'll try it out once I get home later
flatearthpandas said a few messages above: "I played for a bit today. There is a day one patch, not sure what was on it. I didn't have any problems with the audio but that's not to say this problem was fixed or anything"
Therefore I would assume that everyone who has played the game and uploaded videos has already had it automatically patched?
Or maybe not?
Wouldn't assume that without explicit confirmation and everyone comparing version numbers. I wish people would just be explicit and clear about these details. I mean, they must know these basic things and not be mindless robots posting footage for cl--- oh. :)
The game updates to 1.0.2 as of now. I can't tell you about the audio but the system menu still doesn't allow you to switch accept and cancel buttons so I put the game aside until tomorrow just in case. The option is there but greyed out just like in the network test.
I'll be home in about an hour and I can check specific details. But retail Japanese release was today. I picked it up from the store and it downloaded a patch when I opened the game. Would assume the patch is live for my version at least. Again no idea if the issue is solved or not but I played the intro docked and in handheld and didn't find the audio offensive. But it's possible I don't have the same standards or just didn't notice since I was kind of multitasking
We have very very clear examples of the audio in this thread (see OP) so if you can't notice it in those, you're unfortunately not helpful to our cause at large here :/
I haven't watched the videos and I'm not home to compare them anyway. I don't know what tell you, sorry for offering what info I have. Guess I'll go fuck myself next time
not even half a syllable about audio ... oO
edit: http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/review/48668/dark-souls-remastered-switch-review
nothing here either
https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/10/18/dark-souls-remastered-for-switch-review
nothing ....
wtf are they doing
Yikes if they still haven't enabled button mapping for Confirm/Cancel.
How'd this shit get past cert?
How'd this shit get past cert?
Fucking lol. This is serious business, apparently. Jesus.
Audio sounds fine to me. Servers aren't live yet so I don't want to play too much offline but so far it's DS Remastered but 30fps. The patch was pretty small so it couldn't have been anything major.
Someone had a theory that Nintendo has a requirement that menu inputs cannot be changed in-game.
I have no idea if that's true or not but it's honestly the only thing I can think of that makes any bit of sense (not that it makes much).
As far as I recall, not a single review mentioned the missing ambient soundtrack in the PS4/XB/PC versions even.
Played a couple of hours last night, mix of TV and handheld. If I hadn't read about the audio issues here, I wouldn't have noticed them at all.
Confirm being on the wrong button I did notice, however. So annoying when you enter your name at the start and it uses a different button!
Confirm being on the wrong button I did notice, however. So annoying when you enter your name at the start and it uses a different button!
It's pathetic, it really is.
Apparently Nintendo Life have a different definition of 'perfect' to the rest of us. Either that or they have a patched version with 'perfect' audio (which seems unlikely).
What a load of ......... &^$%$*^$
I'm fuming about this audio issue.
Well it kinda is, since we're on page 8 about this issue and people would like to know for sure what the situation is with that now.
This is all USGamer hat about the day-1 patch ...again nothing about audio, just camera and why there's no official docked footage:
https://www.usgamer.net/articles/da...-switch?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Nothing about the audio in the Eurogamer write up :(((( https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...-is-every-bit-as-brilliant-as-youd-have-hoped
I'm a big fan of Dark Souls and didn't even notice a drop in audio quality. I think this is an issue that will effect some more than others but I've played the Switch version for over 35 hours and audio quality always seemed fine to me.
Not to dismiss the issue, I just didn't include it in my review because it doesn't reflect my own opinions.
Not to dismiss the issue, I just didn't include it in my review because it doesn't reflect my own opinions.
What an utter mess on the Switch.
Half the framerate, frame pacing stutters and awful audio.
Damn.
Half the framerate, frame pacing stutters and awful audio.
Damn.
Yeah for me this was going to be a non issue anyway but to be perfectly honest l wouldn't have noticed the drop in quality without watching the comparison video in the OP. I guess some people are just more sensitive to it than others.
It sucks that it's a problem for many of you. I hope it gets fixed.
It sucks that it's a problem for many of you. I hope it gets fixed.
I don't know how this works so I'm actually curious about this:
Do professional reviews typically compare remasters to the originals as some sort of rule of thumb or is the remastered version judged completely on its own merits? I assume most outlets will differ but I'm wondering if there's some sort of 'unwritten rule' about this?
I can actually understand overlooking this issue a lot more than the missing ambient audio in the other Remastered versions. Not you specifically, I mean in general, that one was a lot more glaring as far as audio issues go to me.
Does this also kick you from online? I know Bloodborne kicked you back to the title screen every time you oput the console in sleep mode (because it had to reset the online status), but I'm not sure what Souls games do because I only played them on PC.
Depends on the outlet and what angle they're taking for the review. Some might just review the game, others may look at the technical improvements. I went back to the PS3 verison before our code came in to see if my memories of the frame rate were reliable (not just in Blighttown) so it was rather fresh in my mind.
Reviewers need to play so many games that unless they are really dedicated Souls fans they are unlikely to remember things like sound quality between versions.
And a significant delay, although it was first revealed on Switch. This port is a joke and I will certainly not put my money in it, unless heavily discounted.
Not an audio nerd. I just actually listen to this through speakers.
I'm not an audiophile but I can notice that the audio is clearly inferior, but definitely not a factor to not buy it (Preloaded on my Switch waiting to midnight :__ )
No audio nerd here, but my hearing and system setup is good enough to know when things sound good or bad. Not all of us use ear trumpets these days you know. ;)
you dont have to be an audiophile to notice the tiny sound and compression artifacts but hopefully they can fix that with a patch or an audio pack download. But to me what was more distracting was the framepacing, a shame they couldnt fix that