Audio Reflection Probe Reverb Demonstration

From the Vol.69 Ready or Not Development Briefing: store.steampow...
"By adding reflection probes (areas that determine where audio reflection/reverb occurs) throughout our maps, reverbs take on a much richer 3D sound. By doing this, we can create the impression that a sound is reverberating to the center of rooms, down hallways, etc.
On top of the reflection probes, we've also updated our reverbs in general, including changes to how materials affect reverbs. Rooms which are primarily concrete or wood, for example, now reverberate more accurately based on these factors.
This works with all sounds that are currently played in the game and will come at no extra performance cost!"

[@evaone4286]

People underestimated just how important sound quality is in a game. Its often overlooked for graphics and other features, but sound quality can be just as if not more important than all the rest.

[@velaikka]

Specially in games like this, sound is so important since it gives so much information to the player.

[@Zuberm1]

Sound quality is the reason why I keep returning to insurgency sandstorm

[@Xenoscoutknight]

I love sound quality

[@Xenoscoutknight]

@@Zuberm1 Sound design in both this game and Sandstorm are beautiful

[@zelmask]

mfs in the comments acting like they smart 😂 none of yall know about game design

[@jayden_5812]

This is incredibly impressive. Really great work

[@kissaninja9700]

uh no? Ever heard of lies? Do you ever wonder how Void has the time to showcase in these "advanced" features yet rest of the game is a broken unfinished mess or they simply don't add them in. And when they do add them in they also remove other stuff as well.

[@jayden_5812]

@kissaninja9700 Damm bro. I was complimenting the sound design. Truly unique and some of the best sound I've heard in any video game. Honestly, I think the game is shaping out to be a one-of-a-kind piece of art... it's an ambitious title with a smaller dev team than *edit- any* triple A game and they still manage to compete and provide major updates to the game. Maybe take a major improvement like this in stride with optimism for the game's future, rather than complaining about what they may or may not do. You aren't the artist, they are!

[@velaikka]

@@kissaninja9700 Dude, what the fuck....

[@kissaninja9700]

​@@jayden_5812this game offers nothing new. An everything it does offer is badly made. Quatum sound? What happened to that? Ever heard of EAX?

[@kissaninja9700]

​@@pistolfiednah I'm good. Once i stopped playing games all together i felt fresh.

[@TheHyenaX]

To this day I don't understand why we don't see this kind of thing with AAA devs it is always indie devs that innovate.

[@dickyneedles8876]

complacency maybe? but also, larger dev teams doesn't necessarily mean an increased ability to innovate or put out good work. it comes down to the devs themselves. if I had to guess, indie devs are more closely tied to their projects/have a more personal affinity for the project, so that plays a part in their motivation.

[@velaikka]

Rainbow Six Siege had this kind of sound design since launch, and this kind of sound system got patched into BF4 back around 2015, and the latest COD games since 2019 use this kind of system. I think people just don't really think about it until it's shown off like this in a video. I'm not saying what they do isn't impressive, but just saying it's been around for some time now. And I love that it's getting more and more common in video games since it makes such immersive experience and the audio design is just top notch!

[@JN1NJA]

@@velaikkaseige sound has always been ass dont even try to compare it

[@thealgerian3285]

Need to cater to the lowest common denominator, and blowing their budget mostly on marketing to get people interested in their generic games.

[@Trickzter1337]

Counter Strike 2 has reverbs like this.

[@pablotheultimateboi2160]

love that youtube classified this as escape from tarkov

[@SpaceMissile]

honestly quite similar feel, mechanics-wise. also, Tarkov's sound design is amazing imo

[@ahmadbani1452]

They changed it lol

[@Robonator14]

I am really happy you guys care so much for proper sound design. It is still so undervalued in so many many many studios. You really can count the games that really put effort into this on one hand. Most just go the cheap route of "LOUD AND REVERB" and call it a day.

[@dynamotheone]

Ready or not has so much potential. If void fixes all the really obvious bugs, it could easily be one of my favorite games

[@TR_IV]

your goddamn right

[@moto3463]

Fr

[@back6026]

This sounds abseloutely amazing, I CANT WAIT!!!!!

[@AlFei_0]

Love your work guys! Keep up the great work, and a special thanks to Zack himself for making this game a different sort of special.

[@athosbenther]

Impressive work! tl;dr: please separate voice/SFX volume sliders in options. Although I intensively love this games audio, I recently came across a downer. Managed to get some loud, good speakers and wanted to do a full volume run in the game. I was very disappointed when I learned most of the shouts for compliance or other voice lines were equal, if not louder than gunshots. imo, if you guys added more sound sliders so we could control that, or maybe an option to de-equalize the loudness so that it matches more real world scenarios it would be great!

[@theskirata7034]

I have to say, especially the first scene made me realise what I’ve been missing without even knowing it, with the new system it literally sounds 1:1 to real life. Absolutely incredible work!!!

[@wb6930]

This is why I backed up this project

[@TheGgreen100]

This is truly incredible tech. Wow. I've never seen anything do real-time, dynamic, spacial reverb processing that was actually orientation-dependent before. I'm speechless.

[@JackBaker954]

Hope you read this Zack. You have done incredible things with the soundtrack and sound effects in this game

[@pjoske9497]

Ready or not is one of the most interesting games ive played in a long time. Im increadibly impressed by the work that your level designers, 2d and 3d artists put into every single map. Each one has their own environment and an amazing amount of new assets and easter eggs. At the same time i feel the game has gamebreaking bugs that should be an easy fix (like inventory slots jamming weapons). Theres a bunch of times ive been so frustrated at the game that i just want to quit playing. But at the same time its so immersive (even though i arrest a bad guy and he fly all over the place) and enjoyable that i keep playing. It feels like the game was an increadibly huge scope for the developer team. But it seems, that in the end, they will manage, and maybe even improve uppon that. The sound design was already great, but this is a much welcome feature. Amazing work. Id love to see a redesign for the civilian voicelines though. Maybe the officers could scream more aggresively and also have shorter conversations with suspects and civilians aswell. Not just "random" voicelines. The intel is great and i absolutely love the 911 calls.

[@deepfriedicecream576]

Sound has been something I learned to appreciate over time.

[@mrrkus]

This is good stuff. Great work.

[@SpaceMissile]

great work; looking forward to it. audio is such a core part of immersion.

[@DJMSHAFIDZOFFICIAL]

Experienced & legacy developers. Reminds me of the good old days of EAX. Will definitely support this game soon.

[@Wat3rCoCk]

very nice this gives the final touch to the sound design

[@Mr.00fensive]

Thank you Zack

[@muscalay7516]

I can't wait for 1.2!!!!!! I hope y'all finish the levels.

[@ashleyjohansson230]

You should add a feature where, very rarely there are "good guys" with a gun that end up making things more difficult for swat.

[@DMTEntity88]

Whoa you shouldn’t be playing this game it’s for men

[@DMTEntity88]

This game is for mennnnnnn

[@r3ttgaming177]

The sound reverb quality is so good and awesome!! Good job guys, you people deserve so so much praise for the sound design and sound technology in the game! But if you guys don't mind, I want to comment on the stereo picture. I know it's probably fairly accurate from a "where the sound is coming from and how that sound should bounce" and all that. However in my opinion when the sound is changing from left to right (and vice versa) the sound sometimes does that change way too sharply for my liking, it feels off. On top of that, I feel like the game is telling me exactly where a sound is comming from with the probe on (I get that is kind of the point of the probe, but it still feels off to me somehow). What I mean by this is take the last clip as an example (2:03 - 2:16). With the probe on, the sound feels like it is comming from two directions, but almost ONLY two directions. Did the character go deaf in his right ear or something? Where did my right channel go, where's the cool 3D echo for my right ear? It does not sound like I am in the room. It sounds like I'm playing around with the pan function in my DAW with some basic echo/reverb added to the audio for god sake. Maybe that sound- and stereoprofile is 100% correct, I don't know, and If I am totally wrong please tell me because I want to know. Rant aside, this is really impressive and cool at the end of the day! I can't wait to hear this when it's finished if this is "work in progress"! You guys have always been overachievers and I applaud you guys for that! Keep at it! Got the game just a week ago and so far it's a blast! I love it!

[@StkyDkNMeBlz]

Hearing the voice reflection pan from center to right in 1:35 is absolutely wild.

[@AarontheRobloxcatcher]

COME TO CONSOLE ALL WE GOT IS VERY BASIC GAMES READY OR NOT WILL BE EXCITING FOR PEOPLE ON CONSOLE

[@nathanmitchell7961]

HOly shit Zack this is industry leading

[@TRON_1]

Love you Guys. More like that videos !

[@nathanmitchell7961]

MORE OF THESE PLEASE

[@Thesnakecrawls]

Glad that the Broken AI, some game breaking bugs and optimization issues have been fixed, now I can play the game without a methead killing me Instantly in the head.

[@amerkiller1995]

damn i can hear the difference, impressive, especially the container scenario, cool shit

[@nullentrophy]

I hope you're doing okay Void. Great game

[@AngeNamnNamnsson]

When will you add support for multiple audio channels, like 5.1(5.2), 7.1(7.2) surround sound?

[@concat9301]

Is fast food ever coming back? I liked that map

[@batot3617]

Remember the previous hotel? That map was beautifully detailed and it was ready. Shame it didn't make to 1.0

[@concat9301]

@batot3617 yeah that one too. Was the most optimized map as well lol

[@Wat3rCoCk]

@@batot3617 that was my favourite map

[@SheppLab]

Awesome work. Like always 🍻

[@putzak]

Very good, sound is a bit of an underappreciated element of video games imo. This is giving me EAX vibes, I do think indoor gunshots still need a lot more punch though.

[@kissaninja9700]

Except it's not. Quality and Void interactive don't go hand in hand

[@Wolffo45]

​@@kissaninja9700 Did someone piss in your coffee or something? Jeez...

[@damiang.9884]

Amazing audio design here. Now... when can we expect the OST on Spotify/SoundCloud?

[@bend6292]

Can we get the OG version of cherynessa farm? I miss the challenge

[@nobodyknowaboutit5754]

I wondering how challenging it will be on console even when the game releases for Xbox one ,PS4,PS5 and Xbox x and s

[@Operator_gloomy]

I’m downloading RoN for the first time looks good my guy

[@jinhak_lee]

wow. it is a fantastic sound evolution. I support infinite evolution.

[@Cooltreeman]

This is sick

[@niCO_Beo]

Devs underestimate how Important proximity/Directional Voice chat is

[@LinuxShortsidk]

Def worth the 45 bucks

[@JoMiMi_h]

Hey, good job! I hope this comes in DLC 1's free update!

[@matias10010]

sounds great!

[@DallasDawg69]

That's fucking wild

[@quandaliousdingle-r3b]

Please fix stuttering issue its really bad right now

[@LinuxShortsidk]

LEA GOOOOO READY OE NOTTT

[@LittleFire131]

THIS IS SO FUCKING COOL

[@NEJJJJJ-t4x]

Would be fun If you added more aggressive voice lines and that If you shot someone in the leg they cant run anymore and in the body its gonna be more lethal

[@jakeb2618]

Is this guy K-Billy's Super Sounds of the 70's?

[@Bf2Edits]

PLEASE ADD THIS GAME TOO CONSOLES I WANNA PLAY IT SO BAD BUT I DONT THINK MY PC WILL BE ABLE TOO HANDLE IT BEGGING YOU TOO ADD IT TOO CONSOLES PLS

[@traceypilon6932]

Will you add the game to console???

[@dontanton7775]

Now the only thing I would love to see(hear) is that the sound from inside a room is actually perceived from the door, and not straight through the wall. If there is a door to a room made of concrete walls, you will not hear the sound coming through the wall. You would hear the sound coming through the door.

[@MrSam2497]

Can you give us option to rearrange the guns in our lockers so between the missions the swapping would be more fluent. I know it's small, but i feel like it would still be a good quality of life improvement

[@BARRICADE]

Hey Zack. When is my voice going to be put back in the game? :)

[@regular5k]

Your voice fit judge better than the new vo imo

[@virtualinsanity1457]

EAX Returns!

[@Petit2k_]

I wondering if this was ever implemented, I played a couple games tonight and did not find the option to enable, either noticed any changes on the sound

[@Havox-]

Hello Void Interactive!, I've been on this long road with Ready or Not from its early days like a lot of other people I bet, eagerly watching gameplay videos as the game evolved. It's been a source of excitement and anticipation for me, a game I've long wanted to experience firsthand. Sadly, the lack of a PC has kept me from RON and it stings a bit. But my hope hasn't dwindled or dried up. I've held onto the dream of one day seeing Ready or Not on consoles (PS5 mostly), where I can finally immerse myself in its awesome and tactical gameplay. The thought of it becoming a reality brings a surge of joy in a way, as it's something I've been looking for deeply. I understand if plans may still be uncertain or distant, but any glimmer of hope you can offer would mean the world to me. Your response, no matter how brief or vague, would be a beacon of light in my cold brain. Thank you for reading my heartfelt request if you end up doing so!

[@moto3463]

No consoles are trash

[@TrooperPL]

@@moto3463 You're the trash, mate. There's no "Better" or "Worse" gaming machines (PC, Console, Mobile), Every single ones are equal

[@kizbo69]

I hope pre planning comes back

[@gromblereal]

hey real quick i was wondering fi you guys would be alright with making it so that the beta or pre-1.0 is available as a beta branch? im trying to test out this cool mod i found but it doesn't seem to fully work in 1.0 so i figured this might be a solution since i can't contact the original mod author if you or any reader are wondering what mod, its that trauma team reskin mod; it goes really hard for me and i just wanna do a mission in the full attire but only the vest and mask work in 1.0, not everything it replace the old clothing from pre-1.0 thats why i keep bringing it up and also why i think it would fully work in pre-1.0 this got a bit rant-like, sorry, but please at least consider it thank you guys so much

[@Spec_Tac]

PLEASE ADD THIS TO XBOX THAT WOULD BE AMAZING. you have my money man

[@jahg6087]

Bring back the old ready or not

[@kissaninja9700]

echo and sounds hitting different surfaces? Wubdifucking doo.

[@martincastillo6743]

Zack wher is my OST? Void said I would get the OST once the full game is out. It's been months.

[@Infarlock]

Never clicked so fast

[@lss247]

Awesome!

[@FenixFenix-p5p]

How to hear footsteps better ?

[@woozlerexFN]

when will ready or not be cpming to playstation and xbox?

[@antwanowens4013]

The game still crashes Very often the devs need to fix that before adding anything else I get very close to completing a map the. All the sudden the game crashes

[@bricktea3645]

About about death animation like in the very first trailer, remember?

[@MrRozzi20]

FYI youtube says this is EFT not ready or not

[@RealTylerBell]

sound like you went to gun range and used the sound from it, the sound would be more and echo

[@dariusthatboy17]

Can yall plzz add this game or contact people to get this game on Xbox and PlayStation plzz🙏

[@EggOfficalReal]

What ever happened to the m.l.o

[@K9airsoft.]

Are you guys going to bring the game to Xbox

[@billtoster]

I'm waiting for the game on Xbox series X and I'm ready to pay 70 bucks for it, this game is much better than Call of Duty 2023

[@DMTEntity88]

Bring this game to consoles now!!!!

[@user-rt1bm9yf9r]

Calm down beta, goto the gym.

[@quandaliousdingle-r3b]

I don't understand why everyone keeps asking this. The game is not at all complete even for the pc why would you want a console version? It will ruin the game for both consoles and pc and give them more work. Console player's demands are what gets them the shitty games

[@checkenoodle]

Can u guys add face masks to character customization?

[@marquisbush8985]

Console release please

[@policerthought5649]

Community: “Please make it so the AI doesn’t have aimbot and a hair trigger in every situation” Devs: “ping pong ding dong”

[@RedMasterJV]

Braindead comment

[@emre57s]

Why you dont make ready or not for konsole

[@duhduh14]

is there anyway for you guys to add first responders on the scene? like imagine how immersive it would be if there were already first responders and they're already engaging with the suspects in certain missions?? Imagine if there were ems and fire tending to the wounded. Onlookers and media outside of the scene too? Cause in my opinion the world of RoN feels EMPTY. Like I'm playing an airsoft sim. It's just not an immersive world to play in. I don't feel the realism in THAT aspect. I know it's kind of nitpicking but it would be nice to be added into the game.

[@mrn0b0dy46]

I think there’s ems if you take out all hostile and have all civilians ready to go. I saw a person carrying an npc away on the left behind map and I had my guys falling in on me. Might be a weird bug though.

[@iSyTreX]

escape from Tarkov meanwhile: I go afk...

[@jambers1784]

Yo void interactive im too broke to buy ready or not can you give me it pretty please with a sour cherry on top

[@Andreytsov96]

The best

[@AarontheRobloxcatcher]

CONSOLS

[@justryan6480]

I pray that one day my, extremely crappy, GTX 1050 2gb will get a solid 30 or 40 fps on low in Ready or Not. It's honestly a fun game, the firefights always put me on edge, a lot of moments have me pause the game to go for a smoke break. Ready or Not is amazing.

[@Alostor47]

Круто чё сказать

[@goofyahhman11]

Please make a console release

[@margoferguson1969]

Please release this on console I’m begging we have nothing like this 😭😭😭😭

[@Mortified_Penguin]

I literally can't hear any difference 😂

[@Max-yf5sj]

Bruh even their own game lagged at 2:01 💀

[@ZackHamilton]

I knew someone was gunna point this out!!! This is an optimization for unreal engine when it becomes unfocused - in this case, the screen was switched over to our audio engine and switched back. No lag in-game!

[@volarantoes]

hello Zack

[@mahkhardy8588]

🖤

[@sandersbruh4474]

Good lawd do smth with the penetration mechanic.

[@kylepark7015]

Please add Ban/Blocking Other Users. Intentional Team Killers, AFK/Troll Hosts, and Time Wasters are all over your game but you didn't even give us the option to block them so we constantly run into them over and over again if we are not the host. You guys really need to do something about these types of people ruining your game.

[@nestormiguez4543]

IIt seems like a good improvement But maybe it could harm the game, we will have to try it

[@RM-iz6fn]

hi

[@hwck1ng]

Ty void interactive for you game, it is amazing! One thing add please Ukraine txt language 🤗💛💙