Hearing impaired Killers need help too!
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That is not how it works at all, if you have great thumping terror radius music on, windows is not manipulating the games audio to make footsteps hidden in that music louder it's just not a thing.
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Windows doesn't do it by default, it's an option called Loudness Equalization. (Also I never said it hid anything? The information is always there, it is simplify magnified or reduced when the software is used.) There's heaps of third party apps that can do it much better too.
The main thing it does is that it reduces the dynamic range, meaning the distance between the quietest sound and the loudest sound is much shorter. That's why it's an advantage, because the chase music isn't that much louder compared to footsteps and pain grunts anymore.
It basically exists because of movies that have a very high dynamic range which can be torturous without either equalization or subtitles.
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I'm deaf in one ear as well and it's hard to pick up on audio cues as a killer. I manage, but I totally get your point.
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I never said it did?
All I referenced was compressing the dynamic range of the game.
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I think the mobile version has something like this, when in proximity to a survivor you get an on-screen notification I think with a general direction.
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That's about having good hearing (or good headphones) we should not be limiting "did you hear it or not" to random brain signals, especially when talking about people who are HEARING IMPAIRED.
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Wonder how these folks are gonna feel when the accessibility thing for survs is just a blanket buff and everyone has it on all the time because why wouldn't you?
Meanwhile hard of hearing folk who have the temerity to want to play mean ole killer just have to suffer because your accessibility only matters if you play one side. Ludicrous and hateful.
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Gonna be a long while till I think they add in an audio accessibility setting for Killer in this regard, as it'll need to take into account all audio sources when showing that information.
Probably would be something like this:
Imagine a 3d Circle placed flat on the horizontal camera axis.
Parts of the circle can raise based on the amplitude of nearby sounds (raising less based on the distance).
The direction of sound sources compared to the camera will specify which parts of this audio circle will be raised by the incoming sound amplitude.
Chase music is sourced at the player, so it will cause amplitude changes on the entire 3D circle.
(Really crappy visualization of it:)
Then visually it comes down to understanding the amplitude change patterns on this 3D "audio compass" to see sounds for a specific action, and being able to discern them from any ambient or chase on the compass.
This would be a huge undertaking, and would take quite a while to add amplitude profiles to audio events and figure out a proper way to add them together, test, and make sure it all visually isn't too obtrusive.
The bonus is that this would effectively add audio accessibility settings to everything in the game for any role, not just Killer. (Think footsteps, chainsaws, Pallets Breaks, Window Vaults, etc.) And the complexity of understanding the visual representation would mean a player would likely need to be invested in this system to benefit from it (EG: actually need to use it to learn it).
(I also don't know if this is something that already exists, but uses another name than just "audio compass")
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