Unit fire audio setting?

Okay, so at first I thought that something broke and unit shots/explosion sounds were missing. I experimented a bit and I found out that I can only hear unit sounds when I zoom in REALLY close to the unit.

Anyone know why a setting like this changed out of nowhere and where can I change it?

Are you both running on linux? A linux user on Discord mentioned seeing this bug as well. I'm inclined to think it's linux-only, but haven't identified which distributions might be having this problem.

The most recent update to ZK (that fixed linux crashes) did so by providing a new native linux launcher for steam.

To see if the new launcher is part of the problem, can someone with the audio bug and the necessary prerequisites installed (see the itch download page for details) try running their version of ZK from a terminal with "mono Zero-K.exe" and check the sound quality there?

Infolog: https://controlc.com/b70fb23d (pastebin has some really arbitrary limits)

quote: I have a possibly related problem, gunfire and explosions sound very distant, like a distant war thunder, even when fully zoomed in. Been so for a few weeks.

Yeah, that's the same bug. I actually found out that the nuke launch sound is not affected despite the fact that everything else is.

quote: Are you both running on linux?

Well I am, but I'm not using steam or any fancy new launcher. I always used the terminal.

I have the same situation happening with my installation via steam as well. Even zoomed in really close the sounds seem very distance/muffled. Made me initially think the game was trying to utilize surround sound and I was only getting 1 channel or something.

OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64
Kernel: 5.15.41-1-MANJARO
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X (24) @ 3.700GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X
Memory: 9471MiB / 32065MiB

It's a bug in the newest version of OpenAL. It's apparently affecting BAR too, and has since been patched upstream: https://github.com/kcat/openal-soft/issues/701

For a workaround until the updated version gets rolled out, disabling environmental audio in-game appears to make the combat audio more consistent.

In springsettings.cfg, just add UseEFX = 0

I can also confirm that sound works after adding the workaround to springsettings.cfg
Playing with Steam on Arch Linux.

"In springsettings.cfg, just add UseEFX = 0"


I can confirm that worked for me as well. Thanks.