let's talk about ambient audio

[snuggans]

i like to have Ambient Sounds higher than the other types of sounds because it adds to the immersion, it makes the game feel a little bit more alive, but on default levels it gets drowned out by everything else. i also think that crowd noise is too loud and jarring, here are some tweaks SE could make in order to improve upon what they already have:

• the default audio mastering should give more importance to ambient sounds
• separate the crowd noise that occurs when you're near a crowd of players, from the environmental audio, and allow us to change volume for each
• reduce the intensity of crowd noise, increase the volume of environmental/wildlife noises
• reduce the volume of alarms that occur in places like Castrum Meridianum
• increase the variety of the crowd noise so it's not the same 3 or 4 voices on a loop
• increase the variety of environmental & wildlife noise

what are some things about the game audio that you'd like to change?

[Naoki34]

I would just like it to change the crowd noise when there are a lot of people. Because it is a loop of 10 sec, after 1 minute, I cut, it makes me sick.
Between a sigh, laughter and potato's voices...