German Eiland

Proximity Voice

Hear the players near you in-game. Leave them behind as they fall away.

Quick tweak - Windows

Keep the game audio at full volume

Windows ducks the game by 80% the moment any app uses your microphone. One setting prevents it for this voice chat, Discord, Teams and every other app. 30 seconds, one time only.

  1. 1
    Right-click the sound icon in the taskbar -> Sound settings -> scroll to the bottom -> More sound settings.
  2. 2
    Communications tab -> select "Do nothing" -> OK. This is the important one.
  3. 3
    Playback tab -> right-click your headphones -> Properties -> Advanced tab -> untick Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device.
  4. 4
    On the same Playback tab: set your headphones as the Default Device and the Default Communication Device.

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Voice settings

Microphone mode

Audio devices

Spatial audio