Changelog

1.7.2

• Ties replacement whisper and death-audio loudness to the game's final SFX bus volume.
• Respects both the Effects volume setting and its parent/master volume.

1.7.1

• Removes the F3 Stalker spawn/kill testing menu and its configuration setting.
• Removes the test UI, cursor/input handling, manual-spawn code, and unused dependencies.

1.7.0

• Applies the full proximity, occlusion, vertical fade, slowdown, and distance-reactive reverb treatment to death audio throughout playback.
• Uses FMOD listener coordinates for both attenuation-related effects and reverb calculations.
• Targets the Stalker's authored vision/head point rather than its feet.
• Uses the Stalker's own obstacle-layer mask instead of all default physics layers.
• Smoothly interpolates wall occlusion and fades vertically from four to six metres instead of switching abruptly at five.

1.6.0

• Silences the replacement whisper when listener and Stalker are separated vertically by at least five metres.
• Raycasts from the local camera to detect walls and solid obstacles.
• Reduces occluded audio to 16%, increases its reverb, and applies a strong high-frequency cut for a distant-room sound.
• Adds configurable vertical-silence distance and occluded-volume multiplier.

1.5.1

• Changes whisper playback speed from the exaggerated 50% test to 85%.
• Applies a quadratic distance curve to every reverb property instead of only the wet mix.

1.5.0

• Uses an exaggerated 50% tape-style playback speed for testing.
• Replaces the delay-based Echo DSP with FMOD SFX Reverb.
• Ramps reverb wetness, decay, diffusion, density, early/late reflections, high-frequency damping, and dry attenuation with listener distance.
• Keeps the close sound comparatively dry while producing a very large cave/room tail farther away.

1.4.0

• Lowers the default whisper volume to 0.5 and slows playback to 92% speed.
• Expands the audible radius from 10 to 25 metres.
• Makes echo distance-reactive: subtle nearby and increasingly wet with stronger feedback farther away.
• Adds configurable playback speed and near/far echo levels.

1.3.0

• Adds an optional host-only F3 menu for spawning a test Stalker near a player.
• Tracks test-spawned Stalkers and can kill the newest one to verify death audio.
• Unlocks the cursor and locks character/camera input while the test menu is open.
• Keeps the test menu disabled by default for normal installations.

1.2.1

• Lowers the default whisper volume from 0.8 to 0.65.
• Tightens the default audible radius from 20 to 10 metres.

1.2.0

• Replaces inverse rolloff with squared-linear 3D attenuation so audio reaches silence at maximum distance.
• Reduces the default maximum audible distance from 35 to 20 metres.
• Applies minimum and maximum distance configuration changes live.

1.1.1

• Uses explicit inverse-distance attenuation: close-up volume is preserved while the audio becomes quieter with distance.
• Adds a subtle 115 ms echo to the replacement whisper and death sound.
• Adds an EchoWetLevel configuration setting; use -80 to disable the echo.

1.1.0

• Adds a positional death sound for the Stalker.
• Death playback begins at 54 seconds in the supplied Shadowman recording and continues to its end.
• Triggers only when damage reduces the Stalker's health to zero, not during ordinary despawns.
• Adds a configurable death-volume setting.

1.0.0

• Replaces the Stalker's original visibility whisper layer.
• Loops custom 18-second positional audio through the game's FMOD system.
• Preserves the Stalker's other sound effects.
• Adds configurable volume and distance attenuation.