Guild Wars 2

Hey folks,

Once upon a time GW2 had a feature called VoiP Ducking, that would automatically lower your game’s master volume to a certain level when a VoiP application (e.g. ventrilo) was running. This feature vanished a few months ago without mention. It seems like I’m the only person who noticed.

I’m filing this in the bugs forum because I assume the removal was an accident. Can VoiP Ducking please come back? It was very convenient, and I miss it.

Thanks!

You aren’t the only one that noticed. It seems to be automatic now, though. When I use a VOIP program, my in-game sound/music (usually) is dramatically lowered or muted now.

Only really noticed the “automatic ducking” (if that’s what’s happening) since upgrading to Windows 10, so I’ve been searching everywhere for solutions to it (and tried all the recommended ones native to Windows) – but can’t seem to solve it.

If this is occurring automatically in GW2, what’s most annoying is that the ducking isn’t consistent in terms of the level of ducking that occurs.

Additionally, I get the feeling it could be culling certain sounds completely. I haven’t managed to confirm if this is just the quality setting though, but I noticed the sound effect of my auto-attack chain was completely muted from time to time while I was raiding – which really threw me off my rhythm if I didn’t watch my skill cast bar the whole time.

Yeah, it’s kind of iffy when it works.

But, if you aren’t hearing audio when not using some kind of VOIP, I don’t think that has to do with ducking (or the lack thereof).