Underhell with 3D spatial sound (OpenAL Soft HRTF audio)

https://www.moddb.com/mods/underhell Use headphones only with any virtual surround features turned off. Best HRTF effects at 3:12, 4:35, 14:35, and 27:26. Long dialogue sequence from 8:31 to 11:33. Coming up next is a true hidden treasure of the horror genre called Underhell. It's a standalone Source game by Mxthe that's by far the best, most ambitious fan-made mod ever created on the engine. Underhell takes elements from your favorite FPS and horror games and combines them into one 10 hour narrative. The prologue is a short tactical shooter that feels like F.E.A.R. 1 crossed with Insurgency, but the meat of the game is a System Shock 2-esque survival horror set in a high-tech prison. You must scrounge for food, bandages, batteries, and ammo while hiding in cabinets from zombies. Both chapters are preceded by a spooky walking sim set in Jake Underhell's house. Though not a true open-world game, the level design is non-linear enough that you feel like you're really travelling throughout the prison even if it's ultimately a scripted, linear experience. So with all that praise, you might be thinking that Underhell is perfection, right? Well I have one word for you: tortellini. Underhell's many ambitions are ultimately its undoing, as it gets overindulgent with too many janky gameplay mechanics and cutscenes with some of the most fucking awful dialogue you will ever hear. Mxthe clearly pushed Source way too far, and it shows with its horrendous optimization due to Source SDK 2007 only utilizing one CPU core. It's the dialogue that really gets me, though. I know that at the end of the day Underhell's just a mod, but there's way too much dialogue for how inexperienced the voice actors were. It's weird, too, because the nightmare sequences get everything right and are by far the scariest parts of Underhell. They used minimal dialogue, cryptic messages, and the fear of nothingness to really drive it home. ...My God, we live in a world where Hunt Down the Freeman got financial backing and was published on Steam while Underhell will remain unfinished forever. HRTF grade: B- (no vertical HRTF) Settings: Windows Control Panel: Stereo In-game speaker settings: 4 speakers (must be set every time game launches) r_uh_filmgrain "0" (oh my God do you need this hidden setting so much) snd_legacy_surround "1" IRC_1037 HRTF tables placed in %APPDATA%/OpenAL/HRTF (in alsoft.ini located in %APPDATA%) channels=stereo frequency=44100 stereo-mode=headphones cf_level=0 sample-type=float32 periods=3 period_size=128 default-hrtf=irc_1037_44100 hrtf=true resampler=linear drivers="-dsound" Links: https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/65094 http://repo.or.cz/dsound-openal.git http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/salles/listen/ http://satsun.org/audio/ (Use of this logo falls under fair use laws for non-profit usage.) #3dsound #spatialaudio #binaural #3daudio #hrtf #headphones #audiophile #gameaudio #mod #halflife #halloween 3D 3Д звук пространственный бинауральный 3Dサウンド バイノーラル 空間オーディオ Ilusión Auditiva Sonido 3D áudio audio espacial Som em 3D 3D zvok Son en 3D 3D geluid 3D zvuk 3d声音 双耳 เสียง 3D Âm thanh 3D Suono 3D audio spaziale 3d-ääni binauraalisen 3D lyd 3D dźwięk Suara 3D 3D 사운드 3 डी साउंड 3 डी ध्वनि صوت ثلاثي الأبعاد صدای سه بعدی Τρισδιάστατος ήχος 3D skaņa 3D garsai 3D ses צליל תלת ממדי דימוי שמע