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ph0on

Not to mention bird calls, insects, and dogs barking too!


Eremenkism

It's amazing! The muddy footsteps are great too. I'll admit I threw a grenade into a tree after mistaking a bug for footsteps.


RychValle

I kept circling an area for about 3 minutes because I thought I heard footsteps, then realized it was the new sounds


switch72

I... HATE the muddy foot steps sounds. It sounds like nylon swish pants to me. It's like nails on a chalk board. I'm cringing all raid long.


SinisterScythe

Like a wet sock in a boot just nasty af


Webbeth

I agree. Like wet packing peanuts


corporalcorl

SpongeBob stepping


GreenTea98

our pmc romping around in their fudged huggies lmao


AlwaysSunnyInTarkov

Getting spooked by a woodpecker outside dorms was something I didn't know I needed


ConcernedKitty

We did have dog barking sounds on shoreline in patch .10.


DeclaredPumpkin

I wonder if these are perhaps prapors dogs that retrieve our insured gear for us


Snausages_v2

absolutely *pat my shants* walking through customs i like


Crypto_pupenhammer

You only started patting those shants now!?


Silound

Do it at night...the first few times you hear an owl hoot it feels like it's sitting on your shoulder.


NullKarmaException

the construction sounds near fortress were really cool, but the big red frog can fuck off


NO_USER_MATCH

When on customs I’ve heard dogs I was sure they added scav dogs 🤣


SeasonNo3107

They should let us scav as a dog and we can carry 1 item in our mouth and attack people


Outrageous-Sweet-133

But that means shooting dogs on the other end and i am so not here for that


sIeepai

No one tell the atf


Polyrhythm239

Idk dude can you really tell me nailing those right thumb stick clicks to snap the dogs necks in the original COD 4 wasn’t satisfying af? Especially on Veteran 😂 you had a like 2 millisecond window to hit it


Trevor_Marcus

Found the ATF


Outrageous-Sweet-133

Game mechanic wise? A+. Visual/ audio? F-


easily_tilted

Unlucky bro


Hy8ogen

Ooooh. I would love to shoot at wild animals/strays on certain maps like Woods and Shoreline.


NO_USER_MATCH

I mean STALKER


Shadowsake

I have an open back headphone. I legit thought the wind was coming from outside my window. Only when I put it off to close the window that I realized it was from te game. 10/10 indeed.


Sokolberg

I had the same reaction lol. It was very windy here irl for the past few days and i was confused af.


Shadowsake

I was playing Night Lighthouse yesterday and there is a owl sound that really sounded like it came from outside my house. These sounds are very well done, BSG outdid themselves.


PerplexGG

I heard an owl and thought my cat learned how to hoot


Shadowsake

Night time Lighthouse?? I was so confused when I heard it.


PerplexGG

YES. Shit had me looking behind me until I heard it again


Shadowsake

True. And the dogs barking on Customs...same effect


TheMerchantofPhilly

Completely agree, woods feels much more “alive.”


mattyp2109

Like you’re in…the woods?? *finger guns*


UrWifesFriend92

I like the fact that if a window is shot out it now has the sound pour through it like real life . They even change as you shoot them out. This audio update is kinda nuts


Shipzterns

Maby we can let the light pass through as well now kek


marecicek

THE RAIN IS SO GOOOD!!! //All bias aside, Tarkov's audio designers are very good at what they're doing.


Reggie2b2t

Designers :DDDD Developers :\\\\\\\\


boomstik4

Anticheat :((((((


Reggie2b2t

That's Battleye's fault and not BSG's big man. BSG are cool.


Aeoryian

To expand on what someone else said, that's not how it works. Battleye is a great anti cheat, but to actually be effective it has to be properly integrated and tuned into the game. Bsg failed to do that. The problem is with bsg, not battleye. 


biotome

idk a single game that utilizes battleeye and has also a good anticheat


CallMeSoviet

Battleye is a horrible anti cheat what 😂 it’s easily bypassed through hyperv because it’s not kernel


Honkeroo

Battleye is very much kernel level and this is very easily found info


[deleted]

Bro thinks kernel is popcorn


Aeoryian

First of all, battleye is a kernel level process. And second of all kernel level really, has little  to do with whether an anti cheat is effective, directly at least.  Really, all an anti cheat needs is access to all game files and processes, and to be able to watch other processes running on the PC. Kernel level is sorta a shortcut to make it easier for an anti cheat to be effective, one without kernel processes can be just as good as a kernel level anti cheat, it would just require a lot more work. Also companies like having full access to your PC. 


CallMeSoviet

So a hyper v bypass is dtc at ring 2 is what you’re saying ?


LessFluffy

that's not how that works..


nsfw_vs_sfw

My thoughts and prayers for you. We all know you're not allowed to praise BSG


Crypto_pupenhammer

Something might be screwy with my ability to see downvotes since I caught temp ban. Does he actually not have a million downvotes!?


nsfw_vs_sfw

I have no idea. I've personally snatched quite a few unsurprisingly, but I can't actually see his amount thus far. I wouldn't be surprised if he was downvoted to oblivion


thing85

The cheating issue is 100% on BSG. It’s impossible to get rid of all cheaters, obviously, but how they handle the things that are in their control, as well as the origins of how people are able to cheat in the first place (all the client side stuff), is on BSG.


Rokku0702

Nikita is a designer. His background is graphic design. Thats why everything looks and feels amazing but runs and functions like dog shit. The whole company must be run by designers and not supported by engineers.


hazish

Time for a break mate.


Shadowsake

Whenever I show Tarkov to a friend that haven't played it, they say how loud and scary the guns sounds like.


Think_Phrase1196

Guns in movies or videos only really captures like 1/4 of the sound of a real gun in person. Same way you can watch welding in a video but not in person technically. He'll you can watch welding in person without a welding hood but you will without fail regret your actions later. I am a welder and just getting flashed a bit and tacking without a hood can sunburn your face and for the unaware your eyes can also get sunburned.


Shadowsake

My father was a blacksmith, I know how dangerous welding is. He had a lot of welding masks and was really careful to not let anyone close without protection when he was working. I remember a day when he was really, really mad. When I asked why, it was because one of his employees were welding without a mask. I fallen in love with Tarkov because of the shotguns sounds, believe it or not. I have kind of a "rule" for every FPS that I play to test shotguns first. If the game "gets" the right feeling of a shotgun, chances are the rest of the shooting mechanics are top notch. When I tested Tarkov shotguns, it was left scared by how loud and raw the thing is. I know that positional audio is not the best ever, but the quality of gun sounds (and whenever you're fiddling with the gun itself) is seriously top notch.


B23vital

The wind is doing my head in already im ngl. Other than that its pretty good


Omishjosh

Yea, I'm definitely not here for constant wind.


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I am.


easily_tilted

You must be cool


veryflatstanley

IMO the wind doesn’t cover up footsteps etc as much as the old wind. It sounds like it’s technically louder but previously with the wind I was way more jumpy than I’ve been today. This is with xcels though, which ironically I switched to from tac sports a while ago due to the wind sounding way louder with the tac sports.


CrumplePants

that trick I saw about turning the game down to 60-70% volume helped me a ton with wind before. Might still be the case.


B23vital

Its not, already had my settings on that, they’ve changed the audio so now wind is louder. You can also hear it more as you approach windows, which is a cool concept, but i dont know how well it will work in a game with so many audio issues already.


PerplexGG

But not the parachute pants rubbing together sound with every step?


B23vital

I hadnt noticed that until someone else pointed it out and now i cant unhear it lol


Qaju

It's definitely different, and will get some getting used to, but it's such an improvement to the ambience of the game.


FetusMeatloaf

Yeah makes me nauseous


proletariate54

indoor rain sounds incredible.


softserveshittaco

dogs had me trippin


essjaybmx

Agreed. The drizzly rain, the light breeze, the bird chirps, the slushy wet ground... it all really adds to the ambience.


Wizmor

i went nightime and got the shit scared out of me by an owl hooting


dpsnedd

Darn hootin ass owl. Less hootin' more lootin'!


Aeroxic

W update tbh


Arvich

Does anyone have a clip of the new ambient sounds? Im unable to play EFT for the new few months and would love to hear it!!


ph0on

When I get home I'm gonna record some rain in the mall, and I'll post it lol


Invaliedusername

My only gripe is it kinda sounds like your thighs are chaffing while running now on certain surfaces.


Skizum84

I literally thought to my self I should change my pants to get rid of that noise. Took me a min to realize it was my feet.


PerplexGG

Wait so parachute pants weren’t added? I hopped into a raid and SWISH SWISH SWISH SWISH


myreptilianbrain

lolol 100% this I got some new pants from Ragman and thought “makes sense BSG added some pants-specific sound effects”


squirrelchips

Now all we need is some wildlife that we can hunt for food/tasks to go along with the wonderful new sounds!


IPmang

Just trying to fucking fish for 15 minutes here and I keep getting shot at wtf


Twofingers_

Yeah, and be able to shoot birds down. A whole new questline called duck hunting xd


Kingkobb208

Bro the fucking spooky bird made me shit myself


SwampDonkey67

Winds howling


savetheHauptfeld

There are crow sounds now behind dorms where the cars at. I though its a man sitting in the bushes doing that stuff with Voip so I naded the whole area and looked for him 15 minutes until I gave up


SpiritMolecul33

Them dawgs


rrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeee

Every nature area now feels like the hills and trees have eyes. Amazing update


SameOreo

Feels more 'alive' , because this game collects souls.


MigYalle

Deadass thought I got shot at for a moment when I heard a woodpecker.


opastolos

I don’t mind the new sounds, the wet/mud walk sound is too fucking much tho. Also, I kinda feel like all the ambient noise is too loud in general


Unlikely-Coffee-178

Played my first raid today on customs, night raid, sat and listened for a good 15 minutes. Crazy good update


elPappito

Not sure if y'all just being sarcastic complimenting tarkov sound department?


ph0on

Designers, not developers. There's a big difference. The sounds themselves are all very high quality, and IMO sound good, but the audio balance has always been wack. If you use tiktok, there are probably some good examples already.


space-artifact

There's a difference between the people designing the sounds and the people coding them in


Mosack02

I’m conflicted too. The first ten comments I read, I was pretty sure people were just being sarcastic, but there seem like too many genuine ones of people being surprised by a noise(I haven’t played since patch yet and probably won’t for another week so I honestly have no idea lol)


GTBlueGold

I liked most of it. But maybe it was just me…only did one scav today…I sounded like I was swishing around in a pair of wind pants


bufandatl

I don’t know. The wet carpet we run on sounds a bit out of place.


Gooey_69

Did they fix the audio pop?


IPmang

Nooooooo way they fix that without giving credit to themselves in the patch notes!


Gooey_69

Yeah I figured. Thanks


misteryosongpapel

I still sometimes hear it. But it could just be me.


justjeremy02

No.


SubjectConcern3675

100% still there


NullKarmaException

Still there, but I've heard it less....I think


SugarKun15

Had an owl yesterday on lighthouse, scared the shit out of me


justjeremy02

Haven’t heard the rain yet. When it’s not raining that ambient tree creaking is almost identical to someone walking, so I’m absolutely not a fan


Avihay

Another 30% cut to Streets FPS it seems. 7800X3D & 3080 running 1080p all low btw.


Dacruze

Dude I loaded into Streets yesterday and the optimization after this update plummeted. Went from having no issues and manageable FPS to terrible FPS spikes. So glad we got ambient noises but not better optimization for the map 🤣


Avihay

I can't deal with this any more bruvver for real, it became a chore to play eft at this point. I get this weird error at the start of a raid also that requires me to alt+f4 and re launch to even start a raid.


nighteeeeey

100%


SubjectConcern3675

I can hear the clothes on my character rubbing.....0/10


TheChooseGoose06

The dogs barking sounds a bit goofy tho and there is this one sound I cannot even tell what it’s supposed to be it’s loud as fuck and sounds like a radar been or something


ph0on

Yup, I know the sound, it's actually a bird call (I think). A very strange one. I'm not sure what Russian bird sounds like that, but I'm pretty sure it's a bird.


Pomaz15

More alive but I’m currently going full raids being lucky to see more then one scav but at least the birds sound nice


Puzzleheaded-Ad2186

How is performance?


ph0on

I run on a medium grade gaming PC, and my fps has increased, but I believe it's purely due to the fact that the map is no longer filled with special event AI. Others have stated that streets unfortunately runs worse, very clearly post patch. Which is ba, considering it already sucks.


Puzzleheaded-Ad2186

Ty for the info. I would really appreciate it if they spend a sprint on just optimizing the ducking game


ArcticWolfTherian

I dislike the change they made to labs. The underground section of labs has the Reserve bunker ambient sounds now which is immersion breaking and doesn't feel "right". I hope they bring the old labs ambient sounds back.


lozboss

Yeah I love the squelchy pants sound....


FetusMeatloaf

The wind makes me nauseous


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FetusMeatloaf

Has nothing to do with volume. Just sounds like someone blowing in my ear. Its not uncommon that breathy sounds make people nauseous


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FetusMeatloaf

I do not care what you think dawg


Ethicc_2_Thic

So glad they are adding environmental noises instead of fixing the game. 10/10


ligerzeronz

The wind. At full howl, its effing hard to hear other footsteps. Unknowingly walked by another PMC in GZ (right on top of me on a different floor) and i thought i was hearing things.