Players digging into the opening chapters of Alan Wake 2 are reporting a number of audio and graphical bugs alongside significant lip-sync and subtitle timing issues.
While Remedy Entertainment’s long awaited second instalment in the Alan Wake series launched October 27 to positive reviews and fan reception, numerous players are also taking to social media to report a series of audio glitches and other issues that are troubling the opening sections of the game.
Players have found issues with both the PC and console versions of Alan Wake 2, with many reporting intermittent audio cutout or a complete loss of sound soon after triggering the first few cutscenes. Others have been left frustrated by lip-sync timing issues, and incorrectly timed subtitles.
just played around 2½ hours of Alan Wake 2 and finished up to chapter 2. im enthralled. some major audio bugs mostly affecting cutscenes (the morgue scene especially) definitely have hampered my first couple hours but some settings tweaks helped a bit. that 1st boss fight was gr8 pic.twitter.com/eJ7rklvUtG
alan wake 2 has horrible audio bugs on xbox for me. most times i start there is just no audio at all and i have to keep restarting. really killing the experience for me and i feel like waiting for a patch.
I can tell Alan Wake 2 is a great game, but these audio issues on pc are not it
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