Guild Wars 2

So far the sound seems better in wvw. I did notice it lad once but then came back. Please continue to work on it. But in all it IS nice to see something get love in the game. I hate bugs and performance issues.

Thanks Anet

Some months ago you also made players play the “help” line when they bandage in downed. I kind of wanted to make a thank you thread, but the audio forum was kind of empty :/.

The game feels muh more alive/dramatic when people are getting killed and yell for help, its just so much more satisfying reviving in big events/wvw fights :D

Cody Crichton;

Since the last update I have noticed a lot of ambiance sound cuts out in WvW. When this happens the player will continue to have the same problems when leaving WvW. In some areas you will hear some of the ambiance, just not as much as you normally would hear. Today I noticed that while out in WvW I had hardly any ambiance sound. I could hear footsteps and such. However I logged out and onto my other character. At one point she was walking with ambiance but zero weapon sounds at all. (none of this appeared to be around until the last patch we had)

I tried restarting the game, seems to still happen. Also tried rebooting. Seems to help in some situations. As Alissah mentioned — the lag is still there (just not as bad before the optimization update).

And what he said about the Alive/Dramatic – no joke there. It really does make the game come alive with the audio so please keep pushing the fixes!

That’s nice and all, but what about some 5.1 or 7.1 audio? Because the game sounds awful, like everything is just IN YOUR FACE with no notion of distance or greatness whatsoever.

audio playback is not amazing in the game, as a consumer i feel it doesn’t compliment the environments well at all, things that should feel epic don’t.

Sound quality in true surround is really bad, the balancing of the playback through each channel hasn’t been optimized at all, it’s passable on emulated surround but honestly though it feels this games sound engine is designed for stereo/2.1.