Curse

Fermat · Aug 14, 2005, 04:54 AM // 04:54

I don't know if anyone else feels the same way I do about the sound, but I find it very distracting to hear loud sounds of battle in my left ear and nothing from the right. Sound simply doesn't work that way in real life.

If a battle is occurring off to my left, ideally the sound would be echoed in the right ear slightly muffled and slightly after the left ear. I can't describe how much this would improve the game immersion. As it is, it's more comfortable to simply turn off stereo sound than to work with the poorly-implemented stereo that is part of the game now.

(PS - that's my only beef. Love the game, and can't describe how happy I'll be if this is implemented well. To be fair, I've never played a game where the stereo sound was anywhere near perfect - maybe it's just worlds harder than I think it is)

Evlesoa · Aug 14, 2005, 05:07 AM // 05:07

ROFL! Its ur speakers....unless u wonder off to the right of battle it will be in your left ear. Go back to the middle it will be both and if you wonder too far into left of the battle it will be in your right ear....

Evlesoa · Aug 14, 2005, 05:08 AM // 05:08

Oh and u prob are using Hearing Aids lol....or maybe u need them but no offence...xD

Fermat · Aug 14, 2005, 05:27 AM // 05:27

But that's not the way sound works in the real world. In a real battle, if the battle is off to my left, my right ear still gets sound from the waves travelling around my head and into my right ear, and bouncing off surrounding environment into my right ear. It is *never* solely in the right or left ear, as I hear in the game occasionally.

Maybe it's because I'm using headphones that it's so pronounced to me. If I were using speakers I wouldn't complain.

(PS - the left/right thing was only an example - my headphones and hearing are fine, it's just that the volume ratio between right and left is far too extreme.)