I have played Halo 5 for more than 2000 hours. Halo Infinite felt like it had better gameplay than Halo 5 but the sound was not as good. In Halo 5 I could hear shooting in the distance more when playing BTB, I can’t in Halo Infinite, perhaps because the maps are bigger but even when enemies are closer you can’t hear shooting so well in the distance.
The sound is also not as loud and intense, 343 needs to improve the sound in this game, it’s like they used a different sound codec than the one in Halo 5, it isn’t as loud or intense as Halo 5.
mayhaps not as loud, but the weapons are somewhat more clear, i can somewhat tell the sound difference of a BR and AR.
Though If anything the weapons need to sound more distinct… rather than louder. the game is already loud enough as is. I guess make the echoes more apparent
In our past Halo titles, we handled each gun-fire’s listening-volume purely by distance. So, all gun sound volumes were exactly the same if they’re originating from the same distance. As a result, we had too many loud gun sounds constantly overwhelming a player which made it very difficult to detect true threat position.
The new Halo Infinite audio system detects all gun sounds frame by frame, and prioritizes them in a threat order to decide output sound volume for each gun. With this mechanic, if a gunshot is aimed at player, the sound will be louder and if it’s not aimed at player or if it’s a teammate’s gunfire, the sound is still audible but quieter. then you could hear only threat sounds clear. With the cleaner audio feedback, player can ascertain the appropriate threat to make the right action quicker and more accurately, which results in a more immersive and exciting combat experience in Halo Infinite.
I’m actually loving the sound, except for the Chopper engine, it sounds soo low, soft and muted, like a scooter.
Should sound like a monster truck engine
I don’t think the game is loud enough at all. I play with a Corsair SP2500 2.1 Speaker System hooked into my TV and Auidio Technica A900X headphones hooked into it. I could play Halo 5 at maximum volume and it felt like it wasn’t too loud that I had to turn it down, in Halo 5 if I played on maximum it felt a little too loud so I would turn it down.
Halo Infinite needs it’s sound redone or at least an option to make it louder.
I think the overall sound is great as far as telling different guns apart whether close or far away. And no problems with the volume/gain of sound being too soft.
My only complaint for now is the sound the warthog gun makes. It doesn’t have that thump behind it like in past games when firing.
The new sound system seems fairly bugging to me. Did a number of a btb matches tonight, most of the time it was okay, but occasionally it’d go weirdly quiet (even when im being shot at), and then suddenly it seems like i’m hearing all sounds across the map at once, while no one was shooting at me oddly enough.