A bug is currently affecting Destiny 2 and can be very annoying: it causes a sound so loud that it can hurt your ears badly.
You’re quietly playing your best part in Destiny 2, accompanied by your faithful friends. You wear your latest headphones, to fully experience the action, with total immersion in the action. Your fingers move frantically, almost mechanically, from key to key. The tension is at its peak. And, suddenly, you hear a horrible roar that rips your ears out… Back to reality: this is a bug you could have done without.
“ He shot my ears this jackal last night “says Loïc Ralet, ex-community manager for the Destiny brand (and huge fan of the multiplayer-oriented FPS) in a tweet. As Video Game Chronicles reports in an article published on August 28, it is tied to a specific boss (Golgoroth) and occurs when you die – as if to better punish you for your defeat. On social networks, we can come across several surprising reactions, often of fear, if not of astonishment.
A Destiny 2 bug can damage your ears
If this bug can make you smile when watching certain clips (we think of this streamer who is downright losing his breath), you still have to be very careful about the volume when playing. With a level that is too high, you can really damage your ears and suffer irreversible damage. As shown in this Decibel scale, noise above 80 decibels is considered a risk, even during low exposure (below this threshold, you can already feel tired).
It is certainly for this health alert that Bungie wanted to react quickly on Twitter. In a message to the community on August 27the studio indicated as a precaution: “ We have become aware of an issue affecting Golgoroth, which can play an extremely loud sound during the King’s Fall raid. It is recommended to lower the volume when fighting Golgoroth, while a fix is deployed. »
In short, if you plan to play Destiny 2 in the coming days, be careful to take a few precautions by managing your listening volume well. It would be a shame to damage your eardrums because of a video game. In general, be careful not to put the sound too loud when you play – a finding that also applies to music, movies or series.