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Originally posted by Smokron85

I mainly played interceptor. Felt the audio was weak across most aspects of the demo but on the interceptor it wasn't very strong overall.

Most abilities were lacking in punch. Shurikens barely made any noise. Spark dash didn't do any noise. Same with most abilities.

Sound on the ultimate could have been better. You get this echoey kind of sound but the slices could have been more guttural imo.

Originally posted by dfiner

Np. Thank you for doing an outstanding job. Criticisms I had were probably half bugs, or mostly fixed already. To be clear, the audio experience of the game, when it worked, was top notch, and I loved most of it. Keep up the good work, and thank you for contributing to an amazing game.

Originally posted by Lurern

Hehe. I would if I lived anywhere near. Norway is a tad too far. Good luck with the launch though! You could have something really neat here.

Originally posted by Thalarian17

That's great to hear! Thank you very much for listening! Amazing game btw. The sounds are great and the visuals are stunning! Keep up the great work!

Originally posted by KaosArchon

For console too! As well as a force to 1080p 60 fps! Much prefer framerate over resolution

Originally posted by hugh_jas

What else are you hiring for? If you don't mind me asking!

Originally posted by TheOneWhoMixes

I'm late to this, but I saw your flair and wanted to know what you guys look for when building your audio team! I'd be so down for moving out of country if it means working with audio for games that I can really get behind.

Originally posted by Rikkard

Near the end of the stronghold in the dead spider-thing room, I was hearing other player's shooting and abilities in a loop. I thought someone was rhythmically shooting for a while, but then a colossus used an ability and it just kept going.

I flew away and it stopped eventually.

Originally posted by Gridoverflow

I tried the shotgun in the game but it felt kind off frustrating to use to me, it feels like the downtime between shots is too long and there is little auditory/visual feedback to tell me that I can't fire right now, this was especially noticeable when trying to use the shotgun in between melees with the interceptor. I would love it if the visual recoil and auditory re chamber sound would be more noticeable so it doesn't feel as frustrating when I keep clicking with nothing happening. I had similar feelings about the sniper rifles, the re chamber time felt too long for the visual and auditory feedback making the sniper just feel kind of weak and unsatisfying. In that aspect I hope they make the weapons a bit more like they were in Mass Effect Andromeda which felt better to me, or at least the Black Widow did.

Originally posted by justdeeper-

Dear jer,

Iknow you are busy, but my roommate really doesnt have the right parts right now, to play anthem. Will the fps increase on release? Planning on buying him a pc ;)

Originally posted by crum1515

I got laid off from BioWare Austin in 2012 during the epic EA “restructuring”. Can I have my old job back? Hahaha

Originally posted by drwiki0074

After playing the demo I would say that I did run into a couple of audio bugs:

• At points when there was a lot of stuff going on sometimes the sound would cut out. I noticed it the most when I was doing runs through the stronghold.
• The other audio bug I ran into was in Fort Tarsis. On the map screen while I was moving the cursor around at times the ambient sounds of Tarsis would cut in and out.

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In the mission queue screen when you are getting ready to embark on an expedition, I noticed that when in the social tab where you would invite other players there was no audio feedback from inviting someone. It seemed like it didn't work, although it did because I was in party chat with them and they received the invite, but there were no audio queues that let me know I had sent an invite, just a small visual queue that was pretty subtle. I feel like if there was some type of sound it would feel a little better and not seem like i...

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Originally posted by dfiner

Not sure if you guys are still checking this (flagging u/BioWareJer), but I'll throw in my 2 cents after playing a lot this weekend.

• The sound effects for most guns and abilities was absolutely top-notch. Same goes for the sound effects of flying both on a storm and other javelins (I got to try all 4 at the end). The sound effects of the Javs running are meaty and solid and really make you believe they are a strong exo-suit.
• The above applies to when they work. Guns often cut out audio while shooting (the faster they shoot, the more this happened.
• The storm's abilities are especially noteworthy as awesome-sounding. Glacial Spear (Spike?) is one of the most satisfying audio's for an ability I've ever heard, especially when it triggers a combo.
• The colossus's abilities are mostly amazing.
  
• Any explosive/mortar type ability is perfect IMO.
• Interceptor Glaive/star a...

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Originally posted by Sabotskij

I see you're responsible for the audio, though... sounds in the game was definitely one of the parts that absolutely blew me away this weekend. Applause all around from us who love big explosions!

Originally posted by vhqr

Pasting the content I made into other post:

I don't know if this is already sorted out on the main build. The game had many flaws, but what unsettled the most was the audio. I'm not even a guy who understands anything about audio design or sound in general. I just thought it felt wrong several times when I was playing. I don't mean to bash, just provide my honest feedback. Here some points I had experienced.

• Music didn't play at times, leaving an awkward silence.

• Other times, the music playing didn't match what was happening on screen. Specially in Fort Tarsis.

• Picking up a codex sounds like throwing a hard cover book on the wall.

• Audio in the menus felt off and contributed to make the UI feel unresponsive. The volume of beeps and boops didn't always match the action, if you can tell what I mean.

• I once got a bug where the game went completely silent and I had to restart. Never seen a bug like ...

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Originally posted by CrispySlim

For those that have written large write ups such as this, would you guys want individual posts, or is there a megathread you are all reading up on?