Buildings' Sound Insulation

[Blake81]

This is one thing that hadn't occurred to me before, but does being inside of a building somehow muffles the sounds your character makes inside?

 

I mean, been living in the USA for over two years now, and noticed that here, unlike in my country, houses have some serious sound insulation. There can be a full-on 8 hours college orgy-party on your neighbor's backyard, but you wouldn't notice until you went outside or felt the speakers' bass.

 

So does PZ has such a feature? Does say, crafting a wooden crate inside a house makes less zed-attracting noise than doing it outside? And if no, can we have this feature added?

[BoogieMan]

I've often wondered that myself, the specifics of it. Sometimes it feel like it does reduce the chances of zombies hearing you but then I'll take a few steps and suddenly there is banging on stuff. 

 

So sometimes I get the sense that it does while other times it seems like it does nothing. 

[Blake81]

I've looked into it too, and yes, the results are inconsistent. You can turn on a TV at full volume outside, and not a zed will come by. But try barricading some doors from the inside and the entire neighborhood will come.

 

Wish I could hear the Devs' own take on this.