In case you skipped some of the conversations with the locals inAtomfall, the quarantine zone around the village of Wyndham is not supposed to have any working phone lines. And yet, the calls come through to the red telephone boxes around the map.
Sinceits successful releaseon March 27th, crossing the 1.5 million player mark in less than a week, some Atomfall players have experienced a reverse situation in the game. For seemingly supernatural reasons,players had the game audio suddenly disappearafter playing for a little while.
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The audio issuewas particularly common on the Xbox Series X and S, although some PC warriors have sporadically reported similar woes in the last week.
After two weeks ofplaying whack-a-moletrying to find the root cause, it seems that developer Rebellion eventually landed on a solution.They shipped out a hotfix this morning with a solitary patch note that reads “resolved issues with audio dropping out.”
Brevity is the soul of wit, and it is music to the ears of players who had been struggling on and off with the problem since the game came out.
What Caused The Atomfall Audio Bug?
Judging by the patch notes, it seems Rebellion are optimistic about quashing the pesky audio but in Atomfall. The hotfix was deployed to both Xbox and PC users, with a download size of about 2GB.
The specific reason for the audio bug was not specified, andcommunity troubleshooting did not get particularly far, although some theories emerged.
The most prominent one is that the audio cut-off problem is triggered by the auto-save function in Atomfall, but it is hard to ascertain whether that is indeed the case. The saving system in Rebellion’snuclear disaster gameworks on a set interval, on top of certain event triggers.
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Although the auto-save function cannot be disabled, it is possible to change its frequency.Some users reported improvement to the audio issue once the auto-save interval was set to 60 minutes, but others did not see any change.
The workaround for the issue was not elegant but got the job done, in a pinch: close the game, start again, then play until the audio vanishes. Rinse and repeat.
Whatever the exact cause, early reports indicate that audio in Atomfall is no longer missing in action, so players canenjoy the experienceas intended on Xbox, PC, and PlayStation.
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