To me it does almost constantly and by that I mean multiple times per engagement, the crushers, ragers, reapers, bursters, maulers, flamers & standard horde enemies that are appraoching me are often way too quiet or make no sound at all. And it doesn’t help that the game thinks it’s more important for me to hear my weapon or ability SFX more than the enemy in front of me.
Some people apparently never have these issues. I saw this video from Combine00 and the audio in the video is perfectly clear, all enemies he’s frontlining against are constantly making the sound they should be making at full volume. This is something I can’t experience for whatever reason and I’m jealous. I’ve tried messing with audio settings and different output devices but nothing helps. I’ve even asked Combine00 directly what settings they’re using so I could maybe replicate it but that didn’t help me.
interesting, i wasn’t aware there’s such a discrepancy in it. i was underestimating the issue because i figured it wouldn’t be much worse elsewhere so i guess that in itself explains the split opinions on the topic from other people as well
It’s very weird. I have over 1000 hours, but I’ve only had it happen to myself a handful of times a month. I play with the same group 99% of the time and they also don’t have an issue with it. We have a wide range of hardware from low end to high end, different ISPs, etc.
I 100% believe some people have major issues with it. No doubt. But I can understand why it’s been so hard to fix as it’s not easy to reproduce reliably. There is some combination of factors that make it really bad for some people. But it’s not like the devs can play for 40 hours and reproduce it reliably.
An example I had from yesterday.
Approaching Crusher - No audio except a faintly audible armor clink when it gets in my face
Approaching Bulwark - Very audible voice line
Approaching Rager - No audio until it’s attacking
Approaching Pox Hound - No audio until it pounces
That’s a huge stretch to say I never said fix them, only that the game gives you way more than enough CC to disregard enemy cues altogether, which unless you’re playing with like 4 exe smoke vets the team is going to have in some way. You can’t not pick a form of crowd control on scum the ‘glass cannon’, I really don’t think you guys spend a lot of time in the game before developing these opinions. Seeing stuff like ‘woa stealth is broken for solo’ come so late from you confirms it all the time. Though in general I think you don’t need CC to be playing at an aggressive pace to where a single doorway isn’t the source of a round ending.
No where in there did I say ‘fat shark should never fix this’ and you knew that going in, being a hardcore cheat glazer. No, there’s a ton of things they should fix and it shouldn’t take over every thread. I already said the UI alone is a travesty not supporting info like health on 3+ bosses, and there’s also issues they created from rebalancing ammo count (weapons like revolver will report yellow ammo when missing like 15 bullets, because it used to have 30 reserve). All of that should be fixed, but that isn’t this topic. Though that is the unmodded experience I and many others consider.
And past behavior being the best predictor of future behavior, it’s also a near certainty that many have gaslit themselves into thinking (or not really) happening all the time, therefore “the game game sometimes|constantly cheats me so I’ll cheat it back” is valid for them, a cure looking for a disease.
And I’m positive many of those just wanna use their cheats, so they just publicly latch on to whatever excuse gained the most traction, in this case the aforementioned one.
P.S. I doesn’t need to be repeated but you know, if you have legit accessibility issues , nobody ever have a problem with this. Hel, even for audio issues you can’t figure out (and you actually tried) or replace with different hardware, then have it it, grats on being the tiny % of legit users.
LOL How is that my cross to bear? I did my part for king and country and have gone out of my way to help people with legitimate issues.
Why not go ask the ESP mod authors on the modder’s discord (they’re the admins there ( inmates running the asylum) for less cheaty versions of their mods?
I’ll tell you what, make a detailed list of the maps and “trouble spots” and maybe someone will pick up on it and attempt some kind of more palatable temp cheat.
P.S. If you know those spots already you can bind a hotkey to toggle the ESP mod’s status as a quick workaround, adding a toggle hotkey to a mod (one or more) is a 5s job (google it) if it doesn’t have one.
P.P.S. @eatingsand addressed the rest, so thanks to him. I didn’t think I was being ambiguous…
Yeah, I was trying to stay out of the mod bit… Alls I’m saying is that the issue is really hard to track down because it’s very difficult to reliably replicate.
I do find it super annoying that it’s all but impossible to find good videos to send to friends without all the mods that clearly give players an advantage.
Fair, I wasn’t trying to drag you or anyone else into it.
100%, I wish people would just copypasta (or link) their settings and list off their devices when saying they’re having issues in the hopes of someone catching a glimpse and maybe offering a solution. You know how that goes.
I think our boi @Reginald and the infamous j_sat might be worth glancing at, correct me if I’m wrong, I don’t really watch others’ vids of gameplay.
Avoid that @Index guy, he’s weird and has a tiny transparent hud!
Yeah you’re right OFC, but in his baffling statement, FS Lopus on discord put his ogryn sized foot in his ratling sized mouth with the the “pve so who cares” line and gave them an in with the usual “It’s JuST a BuG FIX !111!” excuse.
I’ve seen them put the ‘acknowledged’ tag on topics saying you can’t see in gas. I’ve not seen it changed for 2 years in the game, but now you have jacked survival with exe stance gas can’t chip in the vanilla balance with 200 toughness or 180 + 15% corruption resistance, so I think you should be blind in gas to at least do something there. I’ve also seen ‘acknowledged’ put on an incoherent rant (though I think they do that to be fahnny).
Yeah I’m sure he knows that it only means logged|seen|ack and not “confirmed”, I think the point he was making was that they did indeed log it multiple times over the years and that’s as far as it went on their end.
no hate when i say this, but how many hours do you have in darktide? i have upwards of ~4100+ now so ive ran into various bugged areas on many different maps so many times
did you know theres still(at least) 2 spots on Mercantile HL 70 04 where you can stand and completely break enemy ai? they arent able to pathfind close enough to you and will just stand still until you kill them or move around, you can also still go out of bounds at the start, skip the first event, and play the rest of the mission with no enemy spawns until you open up the end event and get it started
I honestly, people here put too much stock in what a lot of FS employees says. Your best bet is to report and hope for the best.
Darktide has waaay too many cheat mods, it’s kind of insane. There is like zero curation, I wish they spent bit more resources on this game. To remove the cheat one and add the QoL community made ones (like ping monitor lmao) .
I hope putting all the eggs in the next game pays off
