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Soundproof Walls

From the creator of Real Sonar, Soundproof Walls revamps Barotrauma's audio system in regard to both gameplay and atmosphere with the ultimate goal of making sound more interesting and immersive. Grab some friends and feel alone together in your partitioned steel deathtrap, packed with distant thuds, muffled screams, and no idea what's outside.

• New feature: Advanced Sound Muffling
All sounds are now low-passed and/or pitch-shifted when obstructed by a wall, door, or water, creating a more isolated and intimate atmosphere, free from the constant sound of the engine, reactor, and ventilation.

• New feature: Immersive Proximity Chat
Player voices are now unintelligibly muffled when obstructed or submerged, giving Barotrauma cut-off potential and turning any room behind closed doors into an opportunity for scheming, slandering or murdering. Just be wary of eavesdroppers!

• New mechanic: Eavesdropping
Players can press their heads up against doors or hatches and focus their hearing with right click to hear the sounds or voices within more clearly. Note: By shifting your auditory focus to another room you become less aware of sounds in your own.

• New mechanic: Hydrophone Monitoring
When using passive sonar, players can toggle a new switch to listen through the submarine's built-in hydrophones. This allows players to hear outside the submarine and identify the presence of distant creatures without enabling active sonar, raising the skill ceiling of captains and making their job more engaging.

• Improves on Vanilla
Soundproof Walls is an extremely lightweight C# mod that fine-tunes parts of the source code to fix audio-related issues and streamline the muffling system. As a result of this, Soundproof Walls has zero performance impact and, in some cases, offers a slight performance boost compared to the vanilla game.

• Remixed Soundscape
The volume of various sounds has been tweaked to create a higher dynamic range, with sounds like water ambience having their volume reduced and gunshots/explosions receiving an increase.

• Extensive Configuration
Every aspect of this mod can be customized in real time from an in-game menu containing 40+ different settings. Granting the ability to adjust the frequency, pitch, range, and volume of specific sounds and toggle features entirely. Configurations can also be synced between players in multiplayer.

• And more!
+ Ragdolled players can now speak and be heard (does not apply to stuns).
+ Unique sounds and visuals when attempting to speak underwater without a suit.
+ Hear audio from the perspective of focused targets such as turrets or cameras.
+ Submerged sounds are louder when the listener is submerged in the same body of water.
+ Non-looping muffled sounds are increasingly altered based on distance.
+ The range of certain sounds have been increased for a more realistic representation.
+ Hear movements in the water that adapt to the target's speed when using hydrophones.
+ Flow and fire sounds are muffled when the player is wearing a diving suit or submerged.
+ Sounds emitted from items are muffled when the item is stored in a container.

Supported Languages
• English
• Русский - by routerchain & sworderz
• Español Latinoamericano - by King Kongrio
• Français - by Thespirou54
• Deutsch - by some_william
• 日本語 - by d3
• Polski - by Sqor
• Português brasileiro
• Castellano
• 한국어
• 中文(简体)
• 中文(繁體)
• Türkçe

This mod requires client-side Lua For Barotrauma to be installed for all players (instructions in the mod description).

Q: Why can't I see the menu? / Why isn't the mod working?
This mod requires client-side Lua to be installed, which is different from just subscribing and enabling it. Follow the instructions in the Lua For Barotrauma mod description.

Q: Is this mod safe to use in an active campaign?
Yes. Soundproof Walls does not modify persistent data and can be added or removed from a campaign without issues.

Q: Is this mod compatible with X?
Yes. Soundproof Walls runs as an extension of the vanilla game, making it compatible with 100% of XML-based mods and all currently known Lua/Cs mods.

Q: I'm experiencing a bug. How do I fix it?
Check the Report Bugs discussion for known issues and their solutions. If your problem is not listed, try unsubscribing, restarting Steam, and resubscribing. If the issue persists, please leave a comment.

Q: How do I add/remove X effect from Y sound?
The muffling/pitching of sounds can be manually added or removed for any sound via the advanced settings lists in the in-game menu. To add a sound to one of the lists, include any part of its filename or directory path in quotation marks (case insensitive). For example, "revolver1.ogg" for a specific revolver sound, "revolver" for all revolver sounds, "weapon" for all sounds in the weapon folder, and an empty string "" for all sounds in the game. You can find the names of sounds and their paths within Barotrauma's "Content" folder.

If you feel that my mods have meaningfully improved your Barotrauma experience or you just like what I do, you're welcome to contribute to my insomnia by buying me a coffee on ko-fi.[ko-fi.com]
Thank you.