Starhawk General

[sickcityxiii]

Yea, I can't believe this didn't get fixed.  And just because there are a lot of newer players complaining, I should mention I was a die-hard Warhawk player and have been playing Starhawk non-stop since the Private Beta.

Oh how I wish someone from LBI just listen.

It seems to happen for me when the music kicks in.  Very frustrating....completely takes away from the game.

I swear they have Grade 6 kids play testing this game.

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

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batenswytch wrote:

I get a lot of sound drop out too.

I don't notice the absence of background music - I don't like it anyway, in any game.

But when the sounds for flak and MG drop out, I get kinda tetchy about it. Flak is CRITICAL to be able to hear, or you're dead before you know it.  80% of the time, I don't know BUS DRIVER or FLINT is hosing me down with flak until its too late or I finally notice seeing it sail past out of my peripheral vision. 

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I hate it when I die by a swarm volley due to NOT PAYING ATTENTION to the little white squares showing up on top of my screen and having absolutely NO sounds to warn me

[batenswytch]

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PLYMCO_PILGRIM wrote:

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batenswytch wrote:

I get a lot of sound drop out too.

I don't notice the absence of background music - I don't like it anyway, in any game.

But when the sounds for flak and MG drop out, I get kinda tetchy about it. Flak is CRITICAL to be able to hear, or you're dead before you know it.  80% of the time, I don't know BUS DRIVER or FLINT is hosing me down with flak until its too late or I finally notice seeing it sail past out of my peripheral vision. 

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I hate it when I die by a swarm volley due to NOT PAYING ATTENTION to the little white squares showing up on top of my screen and having absolutely NO sounds to warn me

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If I can only learn to fly with that full map open, like Freaky does, it wouldn't be such a huge deal, different aspects of sound dropping out.   I can manage it in WH, not in SH and for two reasons - in WH, I know the terrain now without needing to see it - most of the time, and because the map isn't dead center in the middle of my field of vision.

But the map is a different topic, and one I don't think LB will ever make changes to.  When asked directly by Harvard Bonin on FB what I didn't like about the maps, and what would make them better, I replied immediately with a well thought out list - and got nothing in response.  Kinda like he thought he'd catch me just carping with no solutions or good reasons, and when I presented them to him, he had nothing to say.

Ah well.

BACK to the sound:

I haven't found the swarmers dropping out on the sound.  Just the flak and MG...so far.  And mics.

My brother has found if he shuts down his tv and surround sound, but leaves the game running and turns it all back on, sound is restored.  He's usually died in the meantime because his Hawk is just flying blindly and unmanned, but it seems to work for him.

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

Yeah I lost all sounds but part of the engine sounds (when i boost it makes noise but sounds weird), no beeps for missle warnings or anything.   Drives me crazy.

Usually if I hop in and out of a hawk it comes back.

[wrappy]

I disconnect and reconnect my HDMI cable and that usually works for me.

[Silentprocess]

That's interesting actually.  When I'm playing Starhawk my receiver will auto-shutoff because it thinks it's not in use.  This is the only game it happens with.  Sure I could go in and change the settings, but then I can't just walk away from my system when I'm done, not a big deal I guess.

So the error is not in game (even though it is also obviously in game) as much as it's not sending the proper information to the hardware hooked up to the ps3.

That's a pretty major issue, don't know if any amount of patches will fix that.

[IRRES169]

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batenswytch wrote:

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If I can only learn to fly with that full map open,

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It would be nice if we could set the hud transparency to whatever we wanted.

[IRRES169]

Question for all of you having sound issues?  What is your ps3 sound output set to?  I mean down to the the khz settings you have checked as well??  Tell me what you have checked or post here.  I will post my settings when I get home, it would be nice to compare what other people having problems have set.

I ask because when I was messing around I remember some of the settings work with all my other games but StarHawk did not output sound with all of them.

I have had mic cut out but never sound, but I think it's because I lowered it from the get go.  I was messing with it for my video setup.

[batenswytch]

@plymco:  Yeah - I don't watch the visual dodge meter. I rely on sound and that's when I get popped repeatedly.  If I can't hear it, I can't dodge it.... except homers and I can't dodge them no matter what.

@Everyone else:  So.  We all agree it may not be the game, per se, but a communication error between the game and the hardware?

[SpaceNun]

I usually have all frequencies checked for HDMI 2 channel.