Game Sounds clarification needed.

Ideally, audio is very important in a game like Dead by Daylight and needs to be carefully protected. Being able to hear footsteps clearly or hear a survivor groaning in pain is a big part of the game, and being able to tweak the settings of different things would give you an advantage over someone who's playing with the default settings. If you could turn chase music all the way down, for example, you would be able to very clearly hear a survivor at all times, making it next to impossible for them to lose you.

Naturally this poses the question, "Well what's wrong with that?"

To keep it simple: Audio adds a lot to a game. If you strip out the chase music, suddenly chases feel a lot less intense. It affects the way the game feels much more than you might think, and we wouldn't want someone to feel pressured into turning off the music and killing the mood just to be on a level playing field with people who have it turned off.

Moreover, it is-- by design-- a part of the game. The music does mask some sound and make it more difficult to track things like footsteps. It is meant to make it a little harder to track survivors. That doesn't mean that it should be so loud that you can't hear anything, though, but being able to turn it off completely (or even just way down) would give you a leg up on the people who don't.

We'll try to find the right balance between loud enough that you can hear it and quiet enough that it's not blowing your eye drums out.