Combat Sound Effects Distorted

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Originally Posted by Xerkrosis

That one addresses the sutter/popping issue, not the distorted sound effects. I still don't hear the successful combinations-sounds or at least any difference to a failed combination.
I don't tend to look after my combo-buttons, because I know how they play out, but when you suffer from lower precision (either debuff or lower level), it's easy to get a miss, which was reflected to a flattened sfx.

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I know exactly what you mean, the sounds were changed to sound the same whether you succeed or fail a combo. I'll use DRK as an example.

https://youtu.be/jaGxC7wnBDo?t=819 Here is the successful combo sound effect in the Shadowbringers job actions trailer.

https://youtu.be/WCVcgZ8dtD0?t=236 Here is the changed sound effect in the Endwalker job actions trailer. It's definitely more muted.

Was trying it out on a training dummy. Really can't tell the difference. But it's also difficult to really notice the change because of the reg-effects on them. I used to tell them clearly appart and it was so noticeable in ShB.

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Originally Posted by Xerkrosis

Ah k. Had understood it in that way, since it was talking about the CPU not keeping up, that it was only mentioning the pops & stutters.

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yeah, when the issue occurs a specific thread that handles audio increases to using the equivalent of an entire core which results in other things in that same thread being choked, when there are a significant amount of sound sources playing at once audio gets dropped as well as time stretched in some scenarios rather than just stuttering, the distortion is because the cpu is servicing a particular sound that hasn't been dropped which was longer than the effects which tended to stutter, which are usually shorter more rapid sounds