Rehtiossi

I went to play today and I noticed that I'm no longer able to tell the direction when people are shooting (even when they are not shooting at me). I checked all of my settings from the game and from windows and they are the same as they should be. This is beyond silly and I'll wait for things to get fixed before playing again. Meanwhile I'll reinstall the game tomorrow with clean settings to see if that helps. It seems quite possible that it is my client that is somehow messed up since no patch came but I just don't know how to fix this. And also all of this started with the new sound engine and this is the only game that is causing problems like this to me. Edit: To clarify it is as if the depth of sound and direction no longer function. I might hear a sound but that is pretty much all of the information that I get, it sounds like all of the sounds are either right on top of me or a quiet whisper in the wind from far away places.

I'm also experiencing severe issues related to sound with the current build. I cannot hear footsteps 2 meters away or someone walking in the same house. I have to keep the game sounds very low since the guns and explosions are deafeningly loud and painful to fire should I try to increase the volume so I could hear footsteps. And no need to give the answer that they should be loud. None of my friends or people I've talked to have this issue and they can hear footsteps so clearly it is an issue that some people have and some don't. Currently I have plantronic 788 and I have the same issue with my previous headset as well as with Xonar soundcard that I tested in order to try to work around this. As a result I often these days end up listening music while playing arma since I can't get usable audio info from the game.