Game sounds like I'm listening from a phone speaker

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Technical Support
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Issue Type (Required):

Audio

Issue Description (Required):

So as said in the title when in game on PC, the game sounds fine when I’m in the morningstar lobby, but as soon as I load a mission, the sound turns weird, like when you listen to a phone speaker recording. I can hear everything over my headset but the sound quality is weird and I can’t tell where enemies are coming from by sound.

I don’t have this issue with other games like Destiny 2, Risk of Rain 2 or Starfield.

I am using a Xbox Wireless Headset, with this headset when I play Darktide on Xbox SX the sound is perfectly fine. I have checked the Audio Enhancement and Spatial Sound options are OFF, however it doesn’t matter if they are off or using other options with them, nothing seems to change.

[PC] Do You Use Mods? (Optional):

No, I don’t use mods

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

Microsoft Store (PC)

Player ID (Optional):

CapAMK II

console-2023-12-03-15.52.30-d51d9ecd-7701-4a89-b35a-b97751289843.log (136.6 KB)

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Please check your ‘Default Format’, etc. as instructed here:

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OP - check your sound settings and see if the game enabled “nightmode” after the last patch. This happened to me (despite having never enabled it myself) and made the game sound like I was playing underwater or with severely congested ears.

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This is smart! I’ll add this to the article linked above later. :slight_smile: