What you need to know
- The latest Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 intel drop shares insight into the innovations to the game's sound from Treyarch Software's audio team.
- New spatial reverb will affect the game's audio scape, with footsteps echoing down long hallways and gunshots and grenades realistically filling the space around a player.
- The audio for Black Ops 6 was developed in partnership with Microsoft's Project Acoustics system.
- Project Acoustics is a physics-based acoustics model that replicates the complex wave physics of sound in 3D game environments, without requiring manual tricks.
- To enhance the game's audio further, Black Ops 6 will also include an enhanced headphone mode, more accessibility options, and live mixing.
