please please please. start playtesting the changes before releasing. changes like this ruin the game.
I play with effect volume at 50%, background off, speech off.
you can listen to music, and hear the sounds of the game in the background, but the recharge sound is at max, so now i play at 20% sound, and it might as well be off.
but releasing versions without people who actually play the game is a depressing thought.
it just shows to me that niantic dont care about the game, it's purely a fancy data gathering and monetary creation tool.
@X3N04L13N wrt Issue 2, I think the Level 8 Portal audio is working as we designed it. When you're standing at an Enlightened L8 Portal, and then send your Drone to a Resistance Portal away from you, you're still physically standing at that Enlightened Portal where the audio source is located, so you also still hear that Enlightened L8 Portal. I imagined it would work like flying a DJI quadcopter drone to another location. For example, when I'm at a park flying my DJI drone, I still hear the sounds of the park where I'm physically standing.
Yes, I've discovered that whenever I start the app the volume is at max even though I have it set to be quite low in settings. If I open settings then exit them, not making any changes, my sound volume returns to the desired level. But I have to open settings every time I open the app or else my ears get blasted.
Thanks. It was so annoying to me that I was considering giving up on the game.
It's unbelievable how something like this can go through testing, and even more unbelievable that it will take more than 15 days for the fix to be available. When you **** up that bad you just release a fix ASAP.
Hey there's not so much that I need assistance, it's more I was asking for you to take a look at a possible bug. I try to adjusting the audio settings up and down, but it seems like the audio volume is not respecting the setting. I have the audio set down to about 15%, and speech at 30%, but the sound effects in the background noise or very loud all of a sudden out of nowhere haha. Just wanted to mention it and see if it was something that you could take a look at on the back end Maybe
Great that it's being worked on, but this is absurd. Every time something new is wrong I think to myself it isn't a big deal, or do whatever work around there is, but honestly. It's ridiculous. Deceased by a thousand paper cuts.
I wonder how core subscription churn numbers look from the first day through now.
Glad you guys know about this issue but lets get the fix out, pretty annoying when you normally play all sounds off and this crazy noise starts coming through your bluetooth in your car or when you turn on the game in a quiet location. 0% means off and your updates should be tested first before releasing
Unbelievable, nobody asked for a sound improvement when there are bigger issues to take care of, yet they did it and did it wrong and messed things up, good job. Brilliant.
Mid July for what should be an easy patch or indeed, rollback?
Its even worse using Android Auto.
If I have Ingress running, with bluetooth link, I have sound off.
BUT if I get an incoming voice call, suddenly I have Ingress audio booming in the car whilst someone is talking forcing me to gank the phone or switch apps in order to hear the caller.
This is not only extremely annoying but could be classed as dangerous.
I'm on prime 2.941-bc2b7d17 Xiaomi mi12 and I am unable to switch off sound effects.
The drawers are on off and the sound is off.
After shutting down scanner and reopen the scanner all sound effects are hearable on loading the app. Once the app is loaded the sound effects are hearable but when I switch to settings the drawers still are set to off. The sound effects disappear simply opening the settings menu where previously were switched off sound.
I tried to clear cache and data, uninstall e reinstall but nothing is working
This is the screen I see when I open settings after opening app hearing all sound.
IDK how but this bug is sometimes present on 2.96.2
There wasn't sounds from initial rollout,but approximately from yesterday sound can randomly turn on from startup(noticed three-four times). Can be fixed by entering settings.
Not gonna clean app data due to adventure sync bug.
Affected device: Motorola One Power xt1942-1 (chinese 6/64 version if matters) on latest available stock Android 10 (global android one,not chinese zUi)
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That’s really lame imo. I’m not going to try finding portals with a blindfold on.
It was better the way it was before.
please please please. start playtesting the changes before releasing. changes like this ruin the game.
I play with effect volume at 50%, background off, speech off.
you can listen to music, and hear the sounds of the game in the background, but the recharge sound is at max, so now i play at 20% sound, and it might as well be off.
but releasing versions without people who actually play the game is a depressing thought.
it just shows to me that niantic dont care about the game, it's purely a fancy data gathering and monetary creation tool.
If they at least would change the portal sounds to the correct one when using the drone it would be ok for me.
There is zero reason to not have it any other way, you are using the drone… the sounds should reflect that.
@X3N04L13N wrt Issue 2, I think the Level 8 Portal audio is working as we designed it. When you're standing at an Enlightened L8 Portal, and then send your Drone to a Resistance Portal away from you, you're still physically standing at that Enlightened Portal where the audio source is located, so you also still hear that Enlightened L8 Portal. I imagined it would work like flying a DJI quadcopter drone to another location. For example, when I'm at a park flying my DJI drone, I still hear the sounds of the park where I'm physically standing.
About the recharging sound, holy **** you weren’t kidding, it seems even louder now than it ever was.
That’s guaranteed legit ear damage if you would use headphones with that…
@NianticBrian
Why is the recharge sound so loud D: regardless of my sound settings?
I put all my sound at 10% as a test and the recharge sound is so loud its piercing my eardrums D:
Yes, I've discovered that whenever I start the app the volume is at max even though I have it set to be quite low in settings. If I open settings then exit them, not making any changes, my sound volume returns to the desired level. But I have to open settings every time I open the app or else my ears get blasted.
Niantic is aware of this seperate bug and is working on a fix for 2.95.1, scheduled for mid-July.
same issue, I don't like to bother the people around each time I start the app.
Same issue ....and same work around resolve...
(but I like the new sounds..just not allll theeee timeeee loudddd in my car haha)..
I have a Pixel 6 New fwiw...
Thank you @NianticBrian for the update on the fix!! (and hi 👋😉)
Have a good weekend all!! ✌️
i think it should be rolled back until the fix
Thanks. It was so annoying to me that I was considering giving up on the game.
It's unbelievable how something like this can go through testing, and even more unbelievable that it will take more than 15 days for the fix to be available. When you **** up that bad you just release a fix ASAP.
Hey there's not so much that I need assistance, it's more I was asking for you to take a look at a possible bug. I try to adjusting the audio settings up and down, but it seems like the audio volume is not respecting the setting. I have the audio set down to about 15%, and speech at 30%, but the sound effects in the background noise or very loud all of a sudden out of nowhere haha. Just wanted to mention it and see if it was something that you could take a look at on the back end Maybe
its a known bug, will be fixed in mid july update.
Great that it's being worked on, but this is absurd. Every time something new is wrong I think to myself it isn't a big deal, or do whatever work around there is, but honestly. It's ridiculous. Deceased by a thousand paper cuts.
I wonder how core subscription churn numbers look from the first day through now.
Same here, I have the volume at 0% for everything, and when I open the game the sound is back and the volumes are still at 0, annoying.
Glad you guys know about this issue but lets get the fix out, pretty annoying when you normally play all sounds off and this crazy noise starts coming through your bluetooth in your car or when you turn on the game in a quiet location. 0% means off and your updates should be tested first before releasing
Unbelievable, nobody asked for a sound improvement when there are bigger issues to take care of, yet they did it and did it wrong and messed things up, good job. Brilliant.
When is this getting fixed or do we need to report the app in the apps store for non compliance?
fix is coming mid july brian said
^not me but this is what ppl are saying.
Mid July for what should be an easy patch or indeed, rollback?
Its even worse using Android Auto.
If I have Ingress running, with bluetooth link, I have sound off.
BUT if I get an incoming voice call, suddenly I have Ingress audio booming in the car whilst someone is talking forcing me to gank the phone or switch apps in order to hear the caller.
This is not only extremely annoying but could be classed as dangerous.
Please note, in case this hasn't been mentioned: SOMETIMES Speech volume setting separately has slightly different (still broken) behavior:
1. In Settings, put the Speech volume to zero, while having other 2 sound volumes not zero.
2. Restart the game.
3. Observe: speech volume is not zero, along with other sounds.
4. Go to Settings. Observe: speech is still on, despite the slider being set to zero.
5. Set the speech slider to non-zero, then back to zero. Observe: speech is now muted, as expected.
Steps 3-5 need to be repeated after each game restart.
(Samsung A750FN)
Hallo all.
I'm on prime 2.941-bc2b7d17 Xiaomi mi12 and I am unable to switch off sound effects.
The drawers are on off and the sound is off.
After shutting down scanner and reopen the scanner all sound effects are hearable on loading the app. Once the app is loaded the sound effects are hearable but when I switch to settings the drawers still are set to off. The sound effects disappear simply opening the settings menu where previously were switched off sound.
I tried to clear cache and data, uninstall e reinstall but nothing is working
This is the screen I see when I open settings after opening app hearing all sound.
Some idea what to do?
Thanks
Niantic is aware and working on a fix for 2.95.1, scheduled for mid-July.
Can we fix this bug... It's freaking me out sometimes.
I got the fix today. (FINALLY!)
yeah got the update too, faster rollout global it seems.
是的,連我使用強大的電競機也是發生同樣的問題,這問題是全球性的災難,請儘早更新完成。
IDK how but this bug is sometimes present on 2.96.2
There wasn't sounds from initial rollout,but approximately from yesterday sound can randomly turn on from startup(noticed three-four times). Can be fixed by entering settings.
Not gonna clean app data due to adventure sync bug.
Affected device: Motorola One Power xt1942-1 (chinese 6/64 version if matters) on latest available stock Android 10 (global android one,not chinese zUi)
Just happened on Redmi9 with custom A11 and latest 2.97 release.
Strange minor bug,still don't know what triggers