Is it just me, or is this game really LOUD?

[RikOz]

I'm very curious about the audio volume aspect of this game, because it it really freaking loud in comparison with literally every other sound-producing thing I do on my computer. It's completely unbalanced. As it stands right now, I have all three volume sliders pulled down to around 10-15%, and I still have to turn my speakers way down from where I need them to hear, say, YouTube or Netflix video, or streaming music via Spotify.

 

On top of that, the game has no "master" volume slider, and none of the three existing sliders appears to have any effect on certain "global" sounds, specifically the "level up" sound. So I'll be playing the game at a comfortable volume, and then I level up and the sound of that blows my head off and wakes the neighbors.

 

Before CoH came back, I was playing WoW on this same machine, with all the same hardware. I also tried out a number of other games (SW:TOR, FFXIV, ESO) after switching from a Mac to this Windows machine, and all of them had audio that was appropriately balanced, volume-wise, with the rest of the system.

[Troo]

At default, it is loud, but not damage speakers loud.

Have always adjusted down the volume on the game. Never thought anything of it. Not a biggie using the sliders one time per install. I can say I never noticed any sounds that remained at an undesirable volume. I may test the level up scenario.

[Chris24601]

I have my sounds at 3% and music at 2%. It’s still able to drown out iTunes running at full volume.