/u/rkrigney - because i dont really know who else to tag
Any chance for the setting "miles_occlusion" to come back ? You used to be able to disable this in profile.cfg in user documents for 10 seasons straight up until this patch.
It disabled sound occlusionb (sound being obstructed through walls) resulting in way cleaner and louder and BETTER audio than what it is without that setting however at the cost of being unable to distinguish whether its coming from behind 1 or 2 walls or above. In other games, this is straight up a simple option in the game settings.
With this update, the setting is gone, and re-adding it to profile.cfg does nothing. Any info?
Yeah I asked the dev team about it earlier this week because someone else was asking. This was how the dev responded:
They were using it to change the audio so that occlusion no longer occurs, allowing you to hear people clearly across the map. This is obviously not intended and never was intended - this takes away from the entire audio design of the game - so we disabled it (the fact that they were able to edit it to begin with is the problem).
That being said, I think this answer isn't to dismiss any criticism of the audio, though. Still open to feedback on ways to improve it. Hope that's clear!