Proximity voice

Hear the island

Hear the players around you, and lose them again as they wander off. Voice carries about seventy metres in the world, straight from this page. Nothing to install, no second program to run.

THE SIGNAL Channel: island proximity

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Quick fix · Windows

Keep the game at full volume

Windows ducks the game by about 80% the moment any app uses your microphone. One setting stops it, for this voice and for Discord and everything else. Thirty seconds, once.

  1. 1
    Right-click the speaker icon in the taskbar → Sound settings → scroll to the bottom → More sound settings.
  2. 2
    Communications tab → pick "Do nothing" → OK. This is the one that matters.
  3. 3
    Playback tab → right-click your headphones → PropertiesAdvanced → untick Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device.
  4. 4
    Still under Playback: set your headphones as the Default Device and the Default Communication Device.
WITHIN EARSHOT 0

No one within earshot.

Get close to another player in the world to hear them. This list fills in on its own, and empties again as they walk away.

Voice settings

Microphone mode

Noise suppression

Noise suppression: standard

Audio devices

Hear yourself as others do

Records five seconds and plays it back exactly as it leaves for other players. Sound tests in Windows or Discord never pass through this voice, so they can sound different. This one is the truth.

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Spatial audio