Alt-Tabbing allows you to hear conversations you wouldn't be able to

[Zion Willard]

Date and time (provide timezone): 09/16/20121

Character name: Zion Willard

Issue/bug you are reporting: Alt-Tabbing allows you to hear people whispering / on the edge of voip proximity

Expected behavior:  To not be able to hear far away conversations.

Evidence, notes worth mentioning, steps to replicate: Tabbing out of the application brings all players in the general area to full voip volume, whether they be whispering or too far away for you to normally here them. 
 

[gregariousjb]

I'm getting this, too, or something similar. I hear small 'blips' of voice chat happening but not whole sentences, like a half-second of the start of a sentence and then it cuts off.

 

Looks related to this: 

 

Edited September 20, 2021 by gregariousjb

[pixiejewels]

I do believe that this correlates with the voip bug attached in the above comment.  Here is a video of what happens.  I tabbed out a couple of times during this clip but I can't say for sure that tabbing out had any effect on the voip glitches. 

 

[Pazz]

In general, the experimental fix from February 6th worked for a few days after it was rolled out. Still, over the last few days, the issue of hearing the less than one-second cut-in of someone talking over VOIP when you enter an area with them or they start using VOIP in an area you're around has made another return.

This is a short, 20-second clip that I saved on the 22nd of February where you can hear the issue pretty distinctively when you're in an area that has a lot of people coming and going. I have more clips from days before then with the same issue. I'm not sure my video has anything to add to the alt-tabbing aspect, as I was tabbed in during the recording, but it seems like the same issue, again.

https://streamable.com/6r6cti 

If it is preferrable, I can post a separate bug report on the return of this issue.

Edited February 26 by Pazz