News - This Is Why The New Warzone's Audio Is Terrible
Because when you reduce the overall output of the game, you're reducing everything. Ironically, there's something in the game that's fairly close to what you would consider a limiter, and that is the bone conductor perk of Modern Warfare 3, which naturally reduces the sound of gunshot audio, or combat audio, as they call it in the game, while still allowing things like footsteps through.
I'm just doing this all the time, so I've effectively got a guaranteed perk in the entirety of the game, but this isn't an option that's available to everybody; it's something very niche that only a handful of streamers will probably ever be able to use, and it means that for people on console or just regular players who aren't gigantic Giga swats like me, you don't have this available to you, and thus this kind of underlines the fundamental flaw with how Call of Duty's audio engine and audio mix work.
It's that the general sound of things is just too loud; gunshots are far too loud; ambient noise in the game is far too loud; and these sounds end up canceling out the footstep audio because they're so overwhelmingly loud that people are having to reduce their audio output in order to make the game bearable.
Because at 100% volume I can hear the footsteps extr extremely clearly, and I've had pretty much zero to no instances where footstep audio has been a problem, but 100% volume is probably something only 1% of players or people who are losing their hearing use because for the vast majority of people is too painfully loud to use.
It's a quality-of-life feature. This should explain most of the issues with Call of Duty's audio, and other than resolving the bugs, I really do feel like the audio mix in this game needs serious addressing.
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