Directional Sound Not Accurate

[lone sinew]

PC (TheHunter: Call of the Wild)

Tons of players in the community would appreciate if the Dolby Atmos or the **__directional sound __**would be fixed. It makes it incredibly hard to hunt sometimes. It is on every map. It seems to happen more in mulitplayer than single player, but it does happen on both.

There is a sound on the left side where the direction shows that "Track Animal Call" but you hear it in your right speaker (headset or speakers) as if it was coming from the right. Its incredibly difficult to navigate especially if you have a dog who barks to let you know, "Hey this way" If you can't see them. But since the sounds wrong, you can't find em sometimes lol.

Please fix!

EDIT This is for any sound, your dog barking, footsteps, all animal calling. It's not easy to get a video of it really, as the directional sound is IN the game itself, watching a video of the sound problems, I believe would be in each speaker equally.

[jolly parrot]

I have the same grudge with this system too. Also when Track Animal call appears before opening or while in your inventory, it will straight up not work, even if you hover over and press E.

[normal narwhal]

Hello deerteeth,

We're sorry to hear about the issues with the directional sound not working properly. Problems like this aren't a normal game behavior, could you please report this incident to us? We'd love to investigate this further.

You can do this by creating a support ticket using this link: https://support.thehunter.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
We answer all reports as soon as possible, and we'll make sure to answer yours as well!

[coral wigeon]

Was a solution ever found for this? I'm having the problem too. Especially easy to notice with the blood hound, if it is barking in front of me it sounds like it's barking to the left of me.
I'm using a Steelseries Arctis Pro headset.

[nocturne cloud]

I have exactly the same issue. Audio from opposite side, apparently so does everyone?

[glacial tide]

Yeah I got this issue too on Xbox and I’ve been having it for a long time now. Using headphones and Dolby atmos

[celest vigil]

It’s still a problem.
I’d like to have the sound visualization turned off for better realism, but it’s impossible to determine where the animal is located based on sound alone (using standard audio on PS5).

[warm cove]

Me too I have 3d headphones works fine on all games but for Cotw it sounds like it’s just a noise can’t pin point where it is

[celest vigil]

What is Your platform? If You are on Xbox (download the app first) or PC You can turn on Dolby Atmos. But I don’t know if it helps.

[lean lark]

Dolby Aymos does not work on the Xbox, it's been broken for 2 years or more and bug reports have been sent many times to no avail

[celest vigil]

Ah ok. Even on the PS5, it’s a problem to locate an animal. The PS5 version doesn’t have Dolby Atmos and probably doesn’t support 3D audio—it’s only stereo—but some animals (for example turkey) are impossible to pinpoint, even when I’m turning around. This should still be possible, even with stereo sound.

[warm cove]

I’m on Xbox