So I’ve been testing for around 1 hour in my island and I’ve gotten it to fully break like in the online sessions.
It appears that the audio issues start out minor and get progressively worse over the lifetime of the server. Once a sound fully breaks it never comes back. I don’t believe your location on the map plays a factor since this happens all over the map. Ending the game and then starting a new game makes the sounds come back.
State 1: Minor Degradation
Video: State 1
I first noticed audio player device set to play at instigator began rapidly retriggering and restarting the loop. It would also occasionally cut out or turn off. This started happening maybe 30-40 mins into the session.
State 2: Moderate Degradation
Video: State 2
Around another 10-15 mins later I noticed that the boost sounds had partially broken and no longer sounded as intended.
State 3: Major Degradation
Video: State 3
Then around another 10-15 mins later the whole sound completely broke on the island. The state when fully broken:
- No Sports Car Engine Sounds
- No Enter and Exit Vehicle Sounds
- No Tyre Screech Sounds
- No Audio Player Device Sounds
- No Destruction Sounds
- No UI Sounds
- No Changing Booth Sounds
- No Horn
- No Dirt Bike Jump Charge Sounds
- No Dirt Bike Jump Release Sounds
- No Dirt Bike Trick Music
- No Player Footsteps
The sounds did however work for:
- Dirt Bike Engine
- Nitro Fang Engine
- Nitro Drifter Engine
- Pickup Truck Engine
- SUV Engine
- Big Rig Engine (No Reversing Beeps)
- Sports Bike
- In Car Radio (Only Party Royale Available)
Annoyingly there were no errors or warnings posted to the output log so I can’t see that anything has crashed or gone wrong. The only warning I got was from EOS that tried to time me out for inactivity.
I feel like the reason this is more common on live sessions is because they can reach that 1 hour server life pretty consistently and you’re left with a bunch of servers that have fully broken audio.