I have never heard of any other game developper have solutions for their games be figured out by players of the game this often... this is a sign that the developper of this game needs to put some serious effort in upgrading their game. when you have over 100 million dollars in sales revenue, there is NO excuse.. NONE.
Wouldn't matter, they would nod their heads and continue to do nothing. The game is almost 2 years old now and not only are new problems being found (like the framerate affecting the firerate) but basic functionality like the audio hasn't been fixed, despite them playing around with it over the years. Wacky is doing great work bringing attention to this but it's about time we all realize that Bluehole is simply incapable of doing what is required.
@@Cimlite this piece of shit game needs to be DEAD!! Apex Legends is so good, they released a final product and it works so awesome, and then theres this fucking pathetic game, its so slow laggy make your reactions slow, play PUBG and the play Apex ull notice the difference, ull perform so pathetic in Apex, uninstall PUBG everyone
I often wonder how many weeks have been lost during development from BH not knowing their own login passwords, beyond just figuring out how to implement features and fix bugs.
If you are a software developing head (I‘ve been a lot years) you and your team surely have a whole bunch of unbelievable ideas each day but, but, BUT all programming needs time and MONEY. Good ideas often cost you much more time (and money) than you have expected before. Hence you gonna strike out a lot of ideas each day. A well known maxim is: The last 20% of realizing top quality cost you the same as the first 80%.
Mechanical engineer here - i have acoustic engineering experience and sounds definitely don't work like this. Currently it is really bad as you mention in the video, and simulating sound properly requires too much work for Bluehole (since they take ages to fix a simple bug and then break it again), but the simplest solution is to assign frequency attenuation curves to each floor and walls, and for the roof use a totally different sound signature because in reality the roof surface should be different since insulation/waterproofing material is used. Since most building assets are duplicates it shouldn't be too hard to make. And forget about simulating sound reflections, too computational expensive and extremely work consuming to make. Using attenuation curves also "fixes" the issue where environmental background noise from outside the building is not attenuated correctly, most problematic in Vikenti night mode ;)
St0RM33 how and where can you do this ?? Do you have to make a sub file in the pubg game file your answer is very intuitive but vague on how to actually fix it in game !!! So any input would be grateful cuse me no like apex lol
Lmfao gotcha so he just adjusted an audio file after it was recorded to make it sound better!! And yeah audio is screwed in this game and I feel like it’s worse then it’s ever been since this last update !!
Clayton Macleod exactly feel same way and I’ve actually went back after marking in my stream what time it happened and looked into the replay and each time there was a person over in that direction lmao so how did I magically hear someone that was 200 meters away cuse bluehole once again fixed something and broke another!! Another thing you’ll find is grenades will kill you threw stuff once again so trying to fix bug they made another!! Look out pubg players !!
You can't hard code footstep sounds into a building's assets. The sound you hear is dependent on where you are standing. Are you inside or outside? On which floor? Depending on that, the sounds will be different. That's why there needs to be a function written into the game's code that will compute the distance and elevation of the sound source and then apply the appropriate modifier to it.
Im still mind blown PUBG Corp. Hasnt hired you for anything yet.. You clearly pinpoint issues and have great solutions for the issues.. PUBG CORP HIRE THIS MAN!
I love how Wacky explains problems and gives ideas for solutions but I don't think it's that simple. How do you determine what floor someone is on? I mean it sounds like for a simple two level house it should be a boolean i.e up or down. But what about stairs? where does one floor become another? By introducing a continuous function the problem would appear simpler but developing a sound function that also interacts with different textures among other things gets computationally expensive quickly. I mean this is coming from a web dev so I could be totally wrong though...
A guy on reddit ( forgot his name) who even got gold for his thread had far superior ideas. He is a mixing engineer and sound designer. He basicly said the audio is garbage and he gave many solutions. Shocking that you have to make this video, but hey its PUBG Corp.
The problem isn't sound design. Suppose they made footsteps above you sound like rubber ducks and they made footsteps below you sound like car horns. It doesn't make any difference what the footsteps sound like. The problem is getting the game to differentiate another player's vertical position in relation to you, and deciding whether or not it is appropriate to apply any sound adjustments. I'm not saying that it can't be done. But there is more to it than just mixing new sound effects.
Hey wackyjack, I've discovered your channel about 2 weeks ago and you've really helped me out a whole lot. I still haven't won a solo, but I notice I'm getting increasingly better. Thanks to your videos, I'm noticing I'm getting a lot more headshots, hitting moving targets, and getting more kills in general. I notice I'm using your "scans" a lot too (Horizontal scan, focus scan. prior. focus scan). These are really helpful. Thanks man! Love the dedication you're putting into your content.
This has gotten me killed so many times, thank you wacky for making a video about this!! I am thinking they are on the bottom floor or even outside when they are 5ft away running up on me
WJ101: absolutely great idea. Love you. I often wondered if I‘m wrong or my hearing is a bit below standard but now I know I‘m right but the sound is wrong or you can call it not optimal. IMHO PUBG is the only (almost) realistic shooter ever but it could become even better and better. Thus I‘m hopeful that Blue Hole will hear YOU. Keep on with analyzing! AS YOU WERE!
You sir make EXCELLENT videos! Your side by side comparisons are top notch. Thank you for efforts. Hopefully the devs make some changes based on your great ideas!
Fantastic video. This is really important as fighting in buildings can be very difficult especially on hot drops where it feels like there are more people than there really are simply because of the fluctuations in sound levels. Sound is such a big issue in PUBG and I'm surprised they haven't nailed this. Good work Wacky, I'm sure the devs will listen as they are good guys.
You're simply amazing ! Sucks that you don't have a mil subs ( honestly, it's about time 😉) and even more worse is PUBG Corp not hiring you... I mean c'mon you deserve it !! ♥️
Footsteps from 2nd floor (and up) is also way too loud when you are in a neighbouring building or outside. It's almost as loud as if they were in the same building as you. In real life these sounds are basically not even audible.
No I think in some instances these sounds would be audible in real life. Like if you were walking on the wood not a carpet. But yeah, they definitely do sound way too close. And even gun shots as well.
In my opinion if u outside of a building the footsteps on the roof should be louder then 2nd fl and 3rd cause he outside on roof and you are outside too...
Probably because IRL most buildings most people are in they are wearing normal shoes and are not carrying a bunch of weapons and ammo on them while sprinting at the same time and probably cussing very loudly. IRL if you are wearing boots and sprinting with a 100+ pounds of equipment on you, you will be heard from 10+ floors below you. Although with bare feet maybe you would be heard only from 9 floors below. Then on top of all of that in PUBG the buildings they are in are probably built from cheap materials and have old wooden floors so it would be even louder.
really really awful devs these things have been there for such a long time, and im glad you are bringing them out and making them focus on fixing the problems
I don't play PUBG, but I do run a niche series on spatial audio in gaming so I watched your video, @WackyJacky101 . What you are referring to at 0:53 is known as "logarithmic rolloff" in HRTF terminology. A proper HRTF filter is supposed to take into account a distance model which filters out high-pitched frequencies (generally at the 5000Hz range) depending on how far away a sound is from the listener position. The OpenAL 1.1 specification details 6 of these, but the most common is "Linear Distance Rolloff". From the sound of the first two examples, a poorly-implemented distance model may be at fault in PUBG. However, the third example with sounds below the listener makes me wonder if the problem lies with the HRTF data itself. Recording vertical HRTF data is notoriously difficult due to limitations of microphone placement around a real human subject. However, with proper volume rolloff, the internal data is negligible. I've played Quake 1 and 2 source ports with OpenAL support and could easily tell where grenades bounced under the platform I was standing on even though the recorded HRTF data only goes to floor level microphones. I know this post will probably fall on deaf ears, but I hope whoever reads this can understand the situation with PUBG's audio better.
PUBG Corp has SO MUCH they could improve just by watching your videos. You should honestly get a check from them every month for everything you do for this game and the community.
I want to start by saying I agree, I like the sound after you adjusted it. However, I wanted to provide a tip for those that can't tell the difference until this is fixed... or isn't. If you couldn't tell, the footsteps from the person on the same level as you were really loud. As the person's position changes (1 or 2 floors above you) the footsteps are lower (lighter) depending on their height above you - so higher = lighter footsteps. The way to tell the difference if they are 2 stories above you or on the roof is by the echo effect. If you listen closely, when the person running is indoors, there is an echo (sounds like an empty hallway) in the audio. You don't hear this echo when they are on the roof.
Pity the roof barely matters as they are so far away, the issue is the audio on the closer floors which is impossible to differentiate the games sound design is utter trash and pubg corp are in diabolical trouble with new games coming out and no answers. It is unacceptable after this long to have a game that honestly does NOT even pass beta testing it's a complete joke and they squandered an opportunity to create a legacy - Their only legacy now is memes of a terribly broken game. If they don't release PUBG 2.0 by a competent new seperate dev team from the break fix team recoded from scratch ASAP this will become the greatest gaming bubble in history that goes from hero to zero overnight. If I was an investor in PUBG when the numbers were looking good 1.5 years ago, after seeing how they deal with the game and the development lifecycle I would be jumping ship ASAP as they are doomed.
Well done, I am so sick of this audio bull, especially in apartment buildings. This 1st vs 3rd floor thing is ridiculous and that stairs running thing is as well. I am baffled why this has not been fixed yet.
@wackyjacky101 you are right the sound does need improvement and it is possible, but as someone who plays around in unreal engine as an novice its a little more complicated than just having different audio tracks. Im not an expert in audio in UE4 but from what I understand you have 1 audio file for foot steps and maybe different ones for different surfaces, you then have a invisible sphere that represents the max distance audio can be heard from and then in programming every frame, the distance you are from the audio will then be put through a software audio mixer to manipulate the sound and then sent to you and any other player in range. I guess the reason people on roofs sound louder than people on the third floor it that from a programming point of view is calculating the distance and the how many solid objects that sound is going through hence why it sounds louder because its only going through 1 wall. Hope this gives you a bit of context, love the channel 👍
"Amazing! Crazy what spending a little time on some problems will do for you! Can't beleive it's that simple! Anyways, here buy this pass with all these ridicluous missions and then buy all these levels and did I mention we got new skins?" - PUBG Devs
This is basic sound design.. And you've nailed it. Lower frequencies are easier to hear at distance than High. Also the further away from a sound source you get the less high frequencies are audable.. That's why when a plane goes overhead and away into the distance. It sounds like the pitch of the engine gets lower as it moves away. Blue balls are just lazy.. As you did with an eq or basic filtering they can easily recreate it
You don't need an EQ or basic filtering. If you look up Unreal Engine Sound Attenuation, you'll find an official reference page that lists the different types of sound rolloff and when they should be used (Attenuation NaturalSound is "Use case: Good for fires or other point-interest or high frequency content that the logarithmic attenuation does not feel 'right' for a sound's falloff.") Clearly whoever was in charge of PUBG's audio design did not read this page.
Well, isnt it yes and no on that one? Frequency dependant attenuation and doppler-effect are two different things? The pitch change when the airplane moving by is the doppler effect and the change of amplitude of specific frequencies are attenuation (which are dependant of the frequency, low frequncies travel further distance without loosing as much energy, as you said).
my idea for stairs: you need to consider lows while running upon stairs. At the 1st floor lows are louder that the actual sounds of stepping but as you go up lows should get louder with stepping sounds but stepping sound should pass the lows after a point.
@@SoundDesignTutorials "As you go up" My English is bad sorry. TL;DR I want the bass to be louder overall while going up stairs and want other sounds to pass its loudness and muffle it as you go u up a stairs where a player is on the roof. Well not TLDR actually
The issue is so easily fixable. Unreal Engine actually has an equalizer built in. You can very easily boost lows, mids, and trebbles, even from C++ code. it's as easy as projecting the positions of the surrounding players on the y axis, substracting the vectors, and getting the magnitude to apply a different sound profile (litterally 3 values) to the footsteps depending on that magnitude. You can even lerp between a few profiles to have smooth sound transitions.
Big Developer Team not getting shit together vs. one legend phenomenaly producing analysis videos about the insane randomness of PUBG Developement Team living the full-time vacation lifestyle while single players look for solutions how to fix that game. This is INSANE! Keep up the great work. Anyways, lets hop into Apex :D
@@maicon9 If it was made by AAA devs they would have killed the game or atleast make it lose what makes PUBG great by making it more appealing to kids and noob friendly. Basically it would be PUBG mobile but worse.
I've fallen through the map on Vikindi and flown over towns on bikes on Miramar more times than I can count, but yeah, I guess footsteps could be the biggest issue the game has at the moment xD
I do understand why somebody running one floor up is louder though because in reality it's the same way. Your upstairs neighbors walking are sometimes louder than somebody inside your own apartment, so if they were running it would definitely be louder but still harder to pinpoint than on the same floor...
I watch WJ's PUBG videos for entertainment.. I've long given up on this game. They pulled in super beaucoup money with the sales of this title. And enthusiasts like WJ post videos on how to fix some of the problems this game has. It just makes me mad. Ok I'm done venting. Nice video as always.
that's why i would rather drop outside of major cities because a shitter kid who's going to end up deaf someday is going to rekt me as i enter a bathroom
OK! PUBG Video done, now I'll play some Apex!
Have a good day bois! =D
So you will play apex more than pubg?
oof
It's just sad that they dont fix the important stuff, this game could be so much better.
Keep enjoying apex man you’re not forced to do pubg tutorials you can do other stuff as well!
Thats hurt my soul dude
I have never heard of any other game developper have solutions for their games be figured out by players of the game this often... this is a sign that the developper of this game needs to put some serious effort in upgrading their game. when you have over 100 million dollars in sales revenue, there is NO excuse.. NONE.
Worst dev ever man, simple
@@Julien_B-Marcel true that
they have already 100 million dollars sales revenue, thats the reason why they dont care^^
Battlefield 5 and rainbow six siege developers also don't care. And for fortnite too
There are many of these devs. Some games are just playable because of the community fixing and improving the game.
Wavkyjacky knows PUBG better than the Devs 😂😂
Its so true and funny... But it also pissing me off af
The devs play TPP. Enough said
Lmaoooooo
You copied that from Twitter didn't you😂
You should sit with PUBG DEV and tell them how to do stuff.
Wouldn't matter, they would nod their heads and continue to do nothing. The game is almost 2 years old now and not only are new problems being found (like the framerate affecting the firerate) but basic functionality like the audio hasn't been fixed, despite them playing around with it over the years.
Wacky is doing great work bringing attention to this but it's about time we all realize that Bluehole is simply incapable of doing what is required.
@@Cimlite this piece of shit game needs to be DEAD!! Apex Legends is so good, they released a final product and it works so awesome, and then theres this fucking pathetic game, its so slow laggy make your reactions slow, play PUBG and the play Apex ull notice the difference, ull perform so pathetic in Apex, uninstall PUBG everyone
should just sit on the dev's face
@@Cimlite they are doing a good hob I think
I often wonder how many weeks have been lost during development from BH not knowing their own login passwords, beyond just figuring out how to implement features and fix bugs.
why doesn't this guy have a million subs??
cause pubg sucks
Patience! He definitely will!
Why doesnt this guy work for Pubg Corp? :)
And more importantly, why the fuck do mobile pleb UA-camrs have more subs and views than him?
This game doesn't have. 1 mil. Monthly active players. At least not in places outside china
we don't need SKILLED sound devs we need the CARING one haha
By this point they should just hire you as lead QA engineer
A lead is a skilled and very taxing position, not some speculating and feedback on a released product.
Also this channel and his twitch channel probably pay better.
tbh at this point I feel like they're letting the players be QAs to save money lol
Why do you people assume he wants to work for bluehole? Maybe hes happy being his own boss, you dont have an original idea
If you are a software developing head (I‘ve been a lot years) you and your team surely have a whole bunch of unbelievable ideas each day but, but, BUT all programming needs time and MONEY. Good ideas often cost you much more time (and money) than you have expected before. Hence you gonna strike out a lot of ideas each day. A well known maxim is: The last 20% of realizing top quality cost you the same as the first 80%.
*quality*
-1. the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence of something.-
1. WackyJacky101
But.... that would require Bluehole to do actual work.... I don't think they're into that.
Mechanical engineer here - i have acoustic engineering experience and sounds definitely don't work like this. Currently it is really bad as you mention in the video, and simulating sound properly requires too much work for Bluehole (since they take ages to fix a simple bug and then break it again), but the simplest solution is to assign frequency attenuation curves to each floor and walls, and for the roof use a totally different sound signature because in reality the roof surface should be different since insulation/waterproofing material is used. Since most building assets are duplicates it shouldn't be too hard to make. And forget about simulating sound reflections, too computational expensive and extremely work consuming to make. Using attenuation curves also "fixes" the issue where environmental background noise from outside the building is not attenuated correctly, most problematic in Vikenti night mode ;)
You're just a mechanical engineer. What do you know
St0RM33 how and where can you do this ?? Do you have to make a sub file in the pubg game file your answer is very intuitive but vague on how to actually fix it in game !!! So any input would be grateful cuse me no like apex lol
Lmfao gotcha so he just adjusted an audio file after it was recorded to make it sound better!! And yeah audio is screwed in this game and I feel like it’s worse then it’s ever been since this last update !!
Clayton Macleod exactly feel same way and I’ve actually went back after marking in my stream what time it happened and looked into the replay and each time there was a person over in that direction lmao so how did I magically hear someone that was 200 meters away cuse bluehole once again fixed something and broke another!! Another thing you’ll find is grenades will kill you threw stuff once again so trying to fix bug they made another!! Look out pubg players !!
You can't hard code footstep sounds into a building's assets. The sound you hear is dependent on where you are standing. Are you inside or outside? On which floor? Depending on that, the sounds will be different.
That's why there needs to be a function written into the game's code that will compute the distance and elevation of the sound source and then apply the appropriate modifier to it.
Gud job Prof. WackyJacky as always... Somebody from PUBG Corp recruit him already... Anyways peace ☮️
Im still mind blown PUBG Corp. Hasnt hired you for anything yet.. You clearly pinpoint issues and have great solutions for the issues.. PUBG CORP HIRE THIS MAN!
Blue Hole doesn't strike me as a company who would pay their devs well. I'm sure he probably makes more money on UA-cam/Twitch.
Maybe is a easy solution, maybe is hard to do in UE.
I love how Wacky explains problems and gives ideas for solutions but I don't think it's that simple. How do you determine what floor someone is on? I mean it sounds like for a simple two level house it should be a boolean i.e up or down. But what about stairs? where does one floor become another? By introducing a continuous function the problem would appear simpler but developing a sound function that also interacts with different textures among other things gets computationally expensive quickly. I mean this is coming from a web dev so I could be totally wrong though...
He probably doesnt want the job bro
I think He has partnered with pubg to bring these yt videos, he has talked about it in one of his older videos.
A guy on reddit ( forgot his name) who even got gold for his thread had far superior ideas. He is a mixing engineer and sound designer. He basicly said the audio is garbage and he gave many solutions. Shocking that you have to make this video, but hey its PUBG Corp.
Link pls
while at it send the link to PUBG corp also...
Link?
The problem isn't sound design. Suppose they made footsteps above you sound like rubber ducks and they made footsteps below you sound like car horns. It doesn't make any difference what the footsteps sound like.
The problem is getting the game to differentiate another player's vertical position in relation to you, and deciding whether or not it is appropriate to apply any sound adjustments.
I'm not saying that it can't be done. But there is more to it than just mixing new sound effects.
@@R3_dacted0 RoE did it with their latest patch. Really no excuses for a billion dollar company...
Hey wackyjack,
I've discovered your channel about 2 weeks ago and you've really helped me out a whole lot. I still haven't won a solo, but I notice I'm getting increasingly better. Thanks to your videos, I'm noticing I'm getting a lot more headshots, hitting moving targets, and getting more kills in general. I notice I'm using your "scans" a lot too (Horizontal scan, focus scan. prior. focus scan). These are really helpful.
Thanks man! Love the dedication you're putting into your content.
We do not deserve you Wacky... the amount of work you put into these videos is insane. Keep up the great work.
Dude, I feel like the Pubg team should reward you for doing such quality feedbacks. you awesome
As always video content is very useful and informative.. thanks jacky.. your move pubg devs..
Wacky you are the Legend! Amazing work! You have to be in the development base of Pubg corp.
This has gotten me killed so many times, thank you wacky for making a video about this!! I am thinking they are on the bottom floor or even outside when they are 5ft away running up on me
I love the background music, I love you Wacky for the job you re doing.
ain't nobody dedicate themself so much on a game like you do, Jack
WJ101: absolutely great idea. Love you. I often wondered if I‘m wrong or my hearing is a bit below standard but now I know I‘m right but the sound is wrong or you can call it not optimal. IMHO PUBG is the only (almost) realistic shooter ever but it could become even better and better. Thus I‘m hopeful that Blue Hole will hear YOU. Keep on with analyzing! AS YOU WERE!
Wacky as always doing amazing job. I hope Bluehole will watch this and learn.
AND he's done it again. Thank you professor. You never cease to amaze me how much you love your community!
You sir make EXCELLENT videos! Your side by side comparisons are top notch. Thank you for efforts. Hopefully the devs make some changes based on your great ideas!
Glad I'm not the only one who spills beer over this issue. Keep up the good work mate!
Fantastic video. This is really important as fighting in buildings can be very difficult especially on hot drops where it feels like there are more people than there really are simply because of the fluctuations in sound levels. Sound is such a big issue in PUBG and I'm surprised they haven't nailed this. Good work Wacky, I'm sure the devs will listen as they are good guys.
I don't have a problem with current sounds but those customs sounds are so much better.
You're simply amazing ! Sucks that you don't have a mil subs ( honestly, it's about time 😉) and even more worse is PUBG Corp not hiring you... I mean c'mon you deserve it !! ♥️
Pubg Corp must really love you, Jacky, you do half their job for free, just in order to make the game better and that's why we love you so much
Haha and I thought my headphones weren't good enough to differentiate sounds from below me and from above me lol
but how does chocotaco do it then ?
@@aneeshprasobhan people say he might have a sound card which will make an improvement.
@@supasf would that make an improvement if he uses wireless headphones ?
@@aneeshprasobhan I don't think so but maybe
"We WoRkEd HaRd To BrInG yOu ThE bEsT sOuNdS" - Brenden green
The vertical audio is really confusing sometimes.. I just died becuz of this in a game today
I think your headphones are backwards.
@@TriggerzConnors or upside down...
@@supasf its still the same audio while wearing upside down headphones.
@@TriggerzConnors lmao 🤣
Wacky is doing a better job than the devs, they should hire him!
Footsteps from 2nd floor (and up) is also way too loud when you are in a neighbouring building or outside. It's almost as loud as if they were in the same building as you. In real life these sounds are basically not even audible.
No I think in some instances these sounds would be audible in real life. Like if you were walking on the wood not a carpet. But yeah, they definitely do sound way too close. And even gun shots as well.
Good thing it’s a game.
In my opinion if u outside of a building the footsteps on the roof should be louder then 2nd fl and 3rd cause he outside on roof and you are outside too...
Probably because IRL most buildings most people are in they are wearing normal shoes and are not carrying a bunch of weapons and ammo on them while sprinting at the same time and probably cussing very loudly. IRL if you are wearing boots and sprinting with a 100+ pounds of equipment on you, you will be heard from 10+ floors below you. Although with bare feet maybe you would be heard only from 9 floors below. Then on top of all of that in PUBG the buildings they are in are probably built from cheap materials and have old wooden floors so it would be even louder.
Somebody get this man subscribers. I love your work.
The actual footstep looks like a whole planet crash on us.
really really awful devs these things have been there for such a long time, and im glad you are bringing them out and making them focus on fixing the problems
PUBG should straight up hire WackyJacky
Ok wacky now giving a way fixes for free is a strange business model xD
I don't play PUBG, but I do run a niche series on spatial audio in gaming so I watched your video, @WackyJacky101 . What you are referring to at 0:53 is known as "logarithmic rolloff" in HRTF terminology. A proper HRTF filter is supposed to take into account a distance model which filters out high-pitched frequencies (generally at the 5000Hz range) depending on how far away a sound is from the listener position. The OpenAL 1.1 specification details 6 of these, but the most common is "Linear Distance Rolloff".
From the sound of the first two examples, a poorly-implemented distance model may be at fault in PUBG. However, the third example with sounds below the listener makes me wonder if the problem lies with the HRTF data itself. Recording vertical HRTF data is notoriously difficult due to limitations of microphone placement around a real human subject. However, with proper volume rolloff, the internal data is negligible. I've played Quake 1 and 2 source ports with OpenAL support and could easily tell where grenades bounced under the platform I was standing on even though the recorded HRTF data only goes to floor level microphones.
I know this post will probably fall on deaf ears, but I hope whoever reads this can understand the situation with PUBG's audio better.
Hey! I found it.
PUBG Corp has SO MUCH they could improve just by watching your videos. You should honestly get a check from them every month for everything you do for this game and the community.
Amazingly simple, nice work jacky!
I want to start by saying I agree, I like the sound after you adjusted it. However, I wanted to provide a tip for those that can't tell the difference until this is fixed... or isn't. If you couldn't tell, the footsteps from the person on the same level as you were really loud. As the person's position changes (1 or 2 floors above you) the footsteps are lower (lighter) depending on their height above you - so higher = lighter footsteps. The way to tell the difference if they are 2 stories above you or on the roof is by the echo effect. If you listen closely, when the person running is indoors, there is an echo (sounds like an empty hallway) in the audio. You don't hear this echo when they are on the roof.
Pity the roof barely matters as they are so far away, the issue is the audio on the closer floors which is impossible to differentiate the games sound design is utter trash and pubg corp are in diabolical trouble with new games coming out and no answers. It is unacceptable after this long to have a game that honestly does NOT even pass beta testing it's a complete joke and they squandered an opportunity to create a legacy - Their only legacy now is memes of a terribly broken game. If they don't release PUBG 2.0 by a competent new seperate dev team from the break fix team recoded from scratch ASAP this will become the greatest gaming bubble in history that goes from hero to zero overnight. If I was an investor in PUBG when the numbers were looking good 1.5 years ago, after seeing how they deal with the game and the development lifecycle I would be jumping ship ASAP as they are doomed.
you are my motivation when i see you playing i m really motivated u play like shroud. love you waky jaky.
Amazing content,you care about viewers,love your videos even though i don't play pubg anymore
"I am not a sound engineer, I just press buttons until I like how it sounded" You did an awesome job man,
Godt gået ;)
WackyJacky just invented a Doppler's effect =)
Dopler effect=lambda(fs+fv/fsfv)
“Imagine what a skilled sound engineer could do”. *Sound of PUBG sound engineer quitting*
THIS. This could make PUBG go from being a good game to being a great game.
The Modified sound, sounds like a heartbeat on the roof
Well done, I am so sick of this audio bull, especially in apartment buildings. This 1st vs 3rd floor thing is ridiculous and that stairs running thing is as well. I am baffled why this has not been fixed yet.
It seems wacky knows more than the developers themselves. ♥️
lol, wackyjacky casually fixing the game in his free time
@wackyjacky101 you are right the sound does need improvement and it is possible, but as someone who plays around in unreal engine as an novice its a little more complicated than just having different audio tracks. Im not an expert in audio in UE4 but from what I understand you have 1 audio file for foot steps and maybe different ones for different surfaces, you then have a invisible sphere that represents the max distance audio can be heard from and then in programming every frame, the distance you are from the audio will then be put through a software audio mixer to manipulate the sound and then sent to you and any other player in range. I guess the reason people on roofs sound louder than people on the third floor it that from a programming point of view is calculating the distance and the how many solid objects that sound is going through hence why it sounds louder because its only going through 1 wall.
Hope this gives you a bit of context, love the channel 👍
Thank you Professor WackyJacky very cool
Mr Dr Prof WackyJacky
"Amazing! Crazy what spending a little time on some problems will do for you! Can't beleive it's that simple! Anyways, here buy this pass with all these ridicluous missions and then buy all these levels and did I mention we got new skins?" - PUBG Devs
Great video WJ. Would be great for this part of the audio to be improved. Hopefully they're paying attention!
Blue Hole, hire this man!
Lets crowd fund pubg 2 via wackyjacky, I trust him more than bluehole lol
This is basic sound design.. And you've nailed it. Lower frequencies are easier to hear at distance than High. Also the further away from a sound source you get the less high frequencies are audable.. That's why when a plane goes overhead and away into the distance. It sounds like the pitch of the engine gets lower as it moves away. Blue balls are just lazy.. As you did with an eq or basic filtering they can easily recreate it
You don't need an EQ or basic filtering. If you look up Unreal Engine Sound Attenuation, you'll find an official reference page that lists the different types of sound rolloff and when they should be used (Attenuation NaturalSound is "Use case: Good for fires or other point-interest or high frequency content that the logarithmic attenuation does not feel 'right' for a sound's falloff.") Clearly whoever was in charge of PUBG's audio design did not read this page.
Well, isnt it yes and no on that one?
Frequency dependant attenuation and doppler-effect are two different things?
The pitch change when the airplane moving by is the doppler effect and the change of amplitude of specific frequencies are attenuation (which are dependant of the frequency, low frequncies travel further distance without loosing as much energy, as you said).
and this is how a "start up" work: expecting people doing your work for free, then buy it or copy it
This video is actually amazing. You've done it again, Jacky! However, why even play this when games like Apex and Blackout exist? GLHF
„How it could sound“ - you could’ve also written „how it SHOULD sound“. This would be a great improvement of the game. Good job, wacky!
my idea for stairs:
you need to consider lows while running upon stairs. At the 1st floor lows are louder that the actual sounds of stepping but as you go up lows should get louder with stepping sounds but stepping sound should pass the lows after a point.
It's impossible for a sound to get louder the further away it gets?
@@SoundDesignTutorials "As you go up" My English is bad sorry. TL;DR I want the bass to be louder overall while going up stairs and want other sounds to pass its loudness and muffle it as you go u up a stairs where a player is on the roof. Well not TLDR actually
4:45 what wackyjacky means is PUBG's sound engineers are unskilled.
That's why we love wacky ♥️
Give this guy a Nobel Prize for pubg
wow wacky thank u very match about the Investment and about all your tips!
the video is excellent!
The issue is so easily fixable. Unreal Engine actually has an equalizer built in. You can very easily boost lows, mids, and trebbles, even from C++ code. it's as easy as projecting the positions of the surrounding players on the y axis, substracting the vectors, and getting the magnitude to apply a different sound profile (litterally 3 values) to the footsteps depending on that magnitude. You can even lerp between a few profiles to have smooth sound transitions.
Big Developer Team not getting shit together vs. one legend phenomenaly producing analysis videos about the insane randomness of PUBG
Developement Team living the full-time vacation lifestyle while single players look for solutions how to fix that game. This is INSANE!
Keep up the great work.
Anyways, lets hop into Apex :D
If PUBG devs took Wacky's improvement ideas and tips onboard, this game would be tits!
2 changes:
1: make the same noise for shoes or barefeet.
2: make all the floors emit a different "sound" depending on the floor
PUBG should be paying you for development consultation at this point Jacky!
Honestly Blue balls corp should hire you as Head of development
PUBG developers should learn from wacky jacky:p
PUBG just needs to hire you already
Hey wacky, good job! I hope Bluehole corp. will see your video.
*PUBG Footsteps = ASMR*
I bought Spatial Soundcard and since I use that, I never had problem with vertical / horizontal audio in any game...
I have no Gaming pc
But I have watch your All Video
Love u Man ❤️❤️
U would think this is one of the things they would work on during the weekly 4 hour down time.
I haven't touched PUBG since Apex Legends came out
same here
It's free and and a good casual game; no pubg but better the BO and 4Shit
@@maicon9 If it was made by AAA devs they would have killed the game or atleast make it lose what makes PUBG great by making it more appealing to kids and noob friendly. Basically it would be PUBG mobile but worse.
The real question is: Why am I supposed to hear footsteps in the first floor from a guy on the roof? That's not realistic in ANY way...
You don't have a multi floor home ,do you
My god they really need to hire you as a consultant already, with back pay obviously :)
when your community continuously finds ways to improve your game and you shut them out or steal all credit
you know the game more than the devs
Thanks WJ for this video :)
Bluehole! Hire WackyJacky now!
I've fallen through the map on Vikindi and flown over towns on bikes on Miramar more times than I can count, but yeah, I guess footsteps could be the biggest issue the game has at the moment xD
Wacky da or wacky brother Thanks for everything
Brilliant, clear kick in the nuts for PUBG - Dick moment, floor 1 is actually ground floor :-)
Valve pls fix... oh w8
Footsteps are way too loud on this game anyways. There is no way in hell you should be able to hear a guy walking around in a house next to yours
I do understand why somebody running one floor up is louder though because in reality it's the same way. Your upstairs neighbors walking are sometimes louder than somebody inside your own apartment, so if they were running it would definitely be louder but still harder to pinpoint than on the same floor...
PUBG need Wacky Jacky on payroll!
I watch WJ's PUBG videos for entertainment.. I've long given up on this game. They pulled in super beaucoup money with the sales of this title. And enthusiasts like WJ post videos on how to fix some of the problems this game has. It just makes me mad. Ok I'm done venting. Nice video as always.
that's why i would rather drop outside of major cities because a shitter kid who's going to end up deaf someday is going to rekt me as i enter a bathroom
Lol
wackyjacky101 : pubg bug fixer 😆
Ffs bluehole, just hire wackyjacky already