Yeah I actually got the answer faster on the discord. Figured I'd ask in both. I hadn't expected this to be such a pain to resolve, guess I'm old fashioned and prefer when it used to use the .ogg files. Just kinda wish they weren't so intrusive with no level of control over them past muting all...
Well my plan was to grind into the new year hunting it but I got it about 9 hours into the hunt today. 153 total Mil Lilies. Not as bad as the first time but this one doesn't have 25H.
As far as I'm able to tell, nothing is set up to output 7.1. I did get to the bottom of the issue though, turns out the culprit is Dolby Atmos. Toggling the surround virtualizer it has in it did nothing to resolve the problem but just disabling spatial audio entirely fixed it. Odd that this...
So yesterday I was streaming some of my PW hunt and when I checked the vod I discovered that only half of the game's audio was being captured, which I've never had happen with other games. For some reason it captures all the environmental sounds like doors, level ambiance and monster effects...