I was talking to someone about how I had to mute the game about 60-70% of the time because it was just really annoying to hear the dialogue from so many NPC’s at once and just the frequency of it was just annoying; we had also discussed in other games like PoE last league where they lowered the frequency of certain NPC’s (alva or Lily) because she would say the same line when you began talking to her and stopped.
Then had come across a reddit thread where they were talking about just muting the game and figured I would make a post on here if anyone does anything different than just muting to make the NPC dialogues stop other than the ones you can click on.
For me, it’s finding a spot to spam queue arena so that when I load in and out I don’t have to hear this “LAIALI” + 2 other random NPC’s talking at the same time; remembering to mute before I bifrost to Hypnos Eye Una; & remembering to turn it back on for the first abyssal dungeon w/ the spinny ball guy that yells really loud.
I usually just have it turned down really low and have music or something on in the background. Some of the NPC dialogue is really annoying. Would be kinda nice if they toned them down a smidge.
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I don’t know how people play games without sound. I get muting the music or voices or whatever but playing without sound entirely feels like the auditory equivalent of trying to pee in a campsite at night without a flashlight.
Personally, even playing without music feels surreal, like something is missing, but I get it if you’re playing something over it.
To be fair it depends on what im doing. If im just grinding chaos or doing dailies yeah sound goes down music goes on. If im doing dungeons or raids though I usually do have my sound on.
I definitely agree that certain things are similar to that, I would say watching cutscenes and that’s probably when I regret having it off for like rapport cutscenes and I’m just kind of left w/ “i wonder what they sound like…” after forgetting to turn it on beforehand.
Its probably when I had a bunch of characters in yorn and was hearing that potion merchant just kind of saying I’m a drag by walking by and legendary needle guy, while I’m walking back and forth maybe honing a toon & hearing it over and over on characters becomes annoying. I moved 4 to Kajala and it’s just always quiet even w/ the sound on.
The other 3 would be multiple people playing music while waiting for stuff; the voicelines in kalhertz; and the voicelines in Hypnos Eye at the Una task. I ended up recording it and listening to it back, it sounded a bit off, and realized my streamlabs has a noise gate & noise suppression so it’s a tad quieter, but for me, it’s just the frequency & how multiple voice lines overlap that definitely becomes obnoxious after hearing it more than once; I wouldn’t watch it to its entirety as its quite boring.
Other people playing music 0:00
Not important stuff 6:27
Voicelines in Kalhertz 8:13
Not important stuff 10:13
Voicelines in Yorn 12:19
Not important stuff 13:00
Voicelines at Hypnos Eye’s Una 15:12
