News - Best Sound Settings For Warzone 2. Audio Settings Explained & Warzone 2 Best Audio Settings

Intro

The one setting in Warzone 2 that doesn't seem quite right is the audio. We're going over the best Warzone 2 audio settings again, and they're all going to be slightly different and tinkered with if you did manage to catch the previous article on this about a week ago. Since a week ago, we've actually already had an audio update within the first patch, so we did have some bugs that were fixed around directional audio and occlusion audio, which is basically sound within buildings, so that's great for periodic bugs of audio not quite working, but they've also explicitly improved footstep audio.

Audio settings

I'm going to take another look at the audio settings for getting an advantage in Zone 2, and that largely is going to be based around how best to hear footsteps, although there are some other important audio settings as well that you need to now adjust.

Audio mix

So we start out with the audio mix, which is arguably the most important setting moving forward, and previously I said to use headphone bass boost. This one seems pretty obvious if you're using a headset; you're either going to use this or headphones, but bass boost does obviously enhance those lower end frequencies at which footsteps do come in, and obviously if you have a TV, go for TV sound bars with sound bars, etc., however.

I have noticed that by using home theater with my headset, not with a home theater, you can actually notice a huge difference, and for me. I can pick up way more audio cues this way, whether it's footsteps, or whether it's doors opening or banging, or things like that. I'm running home theater right now, so why not try that out if you are having some audio problems?

Master volume

then for the master volume I always leave this at 100. Just alter it on my own headset if you don't have the option; obviously, you'll want to put this down generally to not deafen yourself, but really, this is the overall volume that you're hearing, so if it is too loud, you can just turn down the volume elsewhere, whether it's on your headset, your TV, your monitor, your speakers, or whatever comes next.

For music volume, I've still got it all the way down at six. The music is fantastic on Warzone 2 and Modern Warfare 2, for that matter, but when you're actually playing in the game, particularly near the end game, when they start to introduce that intense music to get you going, it is actually quite distracting, and you can miss audio cues that actually help you out in the game dialogue.

Volume I've put this down to 50. Again, at 100, it can just override all the other audio in the game, but sometimes people do shout out very important things, so enemy operators might shout out what they're doing, whether that's throwing a grenade or taking fire or whatever, and that basically tells you someone is in the area, so pretty important effects.

Volume We've left this on 100, so this is things like doors banging and footsteps, so obviously we want that as loud as possible. The hit marker volume doesn't matter too much; mine's on 50.

Mono audio

For mono audio, definitely leave this off. By switching this off, it actually means we've got stereo audio, and stereo audio means we have that directional sound so we can hear someone coming from the left or right. If mono audio is switched on, all that would be channeled together, and we'd just get it all merged into our ears.

For subtitles. I've left that all on for similar reasons as dialogue volume: it can just give us clues to what's going on around us, then the next key audio settings are our proximity, chat, and actually our microphone's proximity. Chat is one of the best features in Warzone 2 for me, and obviously it can give you the drop on enemies if they don't hate you, or you can actually end up teaming up with people and having a chat with them.

It's a great feature. I've put mine considerably higher, all the way to 75, just to ensure the enemy doesn't hear me breathing when I'm trying to get the drop on them. That being said, I still have my microphone volume set to 100. It's still loud enough for everyone to hear when I actually do go over that mic threshold, so, in my opinion, those are the best audio settings in Warzone 2 right now.

Obviously, given the problems that come up with audio and particularly footsteps, they are largely on the Call of Duty side, which means there's not much we can do on our side, but hopefully these audio settings will get you a few more kills and a few more wins. If you haven't already checked out some of my other settings articles, which will absolutely give you an advantage on Warzone, or if you're looking to rank up weapons, why don't you head over here and see