So yea the duke talk volume is pretty quiet and the gunshots and other sound fx are quite loud. So it's awesome it has lots of duke talk.. But I think i didn't hear/understand 90% of it. Perhaps it's fine for headphone users, but I run a 5.1 setup and Sam 2017 engine works pretty awesome with it in the normal game, can hear sam fine.

I did lots of tweaking/testing and seems all the duke talk is not flagged as voice - just another sound effect, so the voice slider does nothing at all. It's also not localized to any channel, thus playing with my balance levels was no help either.. He mostly comes out of the center channel, but also the left and right.. But so do weapons, so muting one or changing the other has no useful effect. (Should just talk from the center speaker and weapons other channels) I even played with a EQ to boost just dukes range, but no go, too low and close to other explosions/shotguns.

Shouldn't be my setup since I also played thru Sam 3's super duke pack that replaces all sam's weapons/monsters and even the entire games voice lines with Dukes.. Can hear them fine even over the loudest gunshots. (and sam in the 2017 engine is fine too)

I'm running win10x64, Creative sound blaster Z, creative ZX-5500s 5.1 over analogue since the digital connection sucks for most games.

Also tried all of the various sound APIs available in the game and no real change.

Considering just looking thru the files and boosting the duke talk ones to balance it out for my system.. But ideally you could fix this. And flag them as "voice", so the separate voice slider can be used to fix this issue on any system.

Thanks for the awesome mod.