Is using a sound equalizer to hear breathing and footsteps easier cheating?
I think it might help a bit, although the frequencies are separate (footsteps are low while breathing is more mid-high) and shared with other sounds in the game. Would this be counted as cheating if used?
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Technically yes, since it is a 3rd party program that gives you an ingame advantage.
IN reality however, it doesnt interfere with the game at all, so its ok, just like voice comms, MLGA and that kind of stuff
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Maybe? but who could blame you with how hard those sounds are to hear.
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A lot of killers play with their audio quite loud to hear that stuff. Useful for countering things like Iron WIll and the dreaded flashlight pallet blind after breaking. Anything to give them an extra advantage
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Advantage ingame more important than a disadvantag of your ears in real life? LolMineAntoiya said:A lot of killers play with their audio quite loud to hear that stuff. Useful for countering things like Iron WIll and the dreaded flashlight pallet blind after breaking. Anything to give them an extra advantage
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What program exactly?MineAntoiya said:I think it might help a bit, although the frequencies are separate (footsteps are low while breathing is more mid-high) and shared with other sounds in the game. Would this be counted as cheating if used?
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Jokes on you my headset is as loud as a plane engine so I hear everything
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I actually had to turn my headset volume down after breaking a pallet because the sound was so loud. Later went and turned the headset back up and lowered the game volume.MineAntoiya said:A lot of killers play with their audio quite loud to hear that stuff. Useful for countering things like Iron WIll and the dreaded flashlight pallet blind after breaking. Anything to give them an extra advantage
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That's clearly cheating. Why wouldn't you think it was? Voice isn't supposed to be in the game, at least not Killer>Survivor, so again, cheating. You even have a perk just for this reason; just use Stridor.
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@Coriander said:
That's clearly cheating. Why wouldn't you think it was? Voice isn't supposed to be in the game, at least not Killer>Survivor, so again, cheating. You even have a perk just for this reason; just use Stridor.Yeah but that's a wasted perk slot.
Plus if we take an example from SWF, which using comms is technically cheating.
I would say, just use bond to find each other.
Same idea. Why waste a perk slot when you can cheat an outside one in?
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That's because it's nigh impossible to prevent friends from communicating over the internet. That's what makes SWF unfair, and why the game was technically designed for no communication (it even fits into the lore; no noise to give yourself away). But to change the actual game to give yourself an advantage is cheating plain and simple. You can wear headphones, and you can turn the volume up.
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@Coriander said:
That's because it's nigh impossible to prevent friends from communicating over the internet. That's what makes SWF unfair, and why the game was technically designed for no communication (it even fits into the lore; no noise to give yourself away). But to change the actual game to give yourself an advantage is cheating plain and simple. You can wear headphones, and you can turn the volume up.Sorry I like to keep my ears on account of the obnoxious music and pallet breaking sounds
The games sounds are broken and have been for a while
Entering HaddonField is #########, idk why they did that. Put more $$$ into making that louder than fixing the rest of the game.
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That's a bug, I think. They'll fix that soon, there's been a topic complaining about it so I'm pretty sure they're aware. And if you don't want headphones, just turn the sound up on the screen. There's no way to justify altering the game to give yourself an advantage. If you did, why not just alter the video aspect to make them easier to see through walls? There's no excuse.
I often play Billy while listening to music, so I can't hear anything. The chainsaw works just as well.
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@Swiftblade131 said:
@Coriander said:
That's because it's nigh impossible to prevent friends from communicating over the internet. That's what makes SWF unfair, and why the game was technically designed for no communication (it even fits into the lore; no noise to give yourself away). But to change the actual game to give yourself an advantage is cheating plain and simple. You can wear headphones, and you can turn the volume up.Sorry I like to keep my ears on account of the obnoxious music and pallet breaking sounds
The games sounds are broken and have been for a while
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I have to agree here, If it weren't for sounds being constantly broken I'd say not to do it but we only recently got footsteps back after a very long time and they're still softer than before they were taken out.
Who knows when or if sounds will ever be at a decent place, Until that's the case I wouldn't blame you for adjusting the sounds yourself since there's no option in game.
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Some headphones come with sound-adjustment to hear softer sounds better built-in. I mean, it's one thing if you're somehow tinkering with the game itself, but if it's something done by adjusting speaker/hardware settings, that's what those settings are for, right?
To me, it hardly seems different than adjusting the brightness and contrast on your screen to see better. Some players use the settings in their graphics card to adjust the colors for color blindness.
I have trouble differentiating sounds myself. In the case of this game, I don't know if it's me or if the sounds are too soft, especially when paired with the loud music. I've never been alerted to a survivor's presence by their footsteps, and the only time I hear the Pig's breathing is when she's carrying me.
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@HavelmomDaS1 said:
Advantage ingame more important than a disadvantag of your ears in real life? Lol
As a musician, I am rethinking my choices thanks to you lol
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It's cheating to use a non 3rd party program like that yes.
As far as sound goes I always turn my volume down during loading screen just in case I load into Haddonfield.
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