Silent footsteps/fix your audio

Pointless to ask for this.

Money flows either way if audio works or not. So why anyone would care? New issues new season brought on top of older still existing onse made this game unpleasant to play.

@Joemanji Do note that the A50s is a wireless headset.

These issues typically (By around 80%) manifest with bluetooth headsets, this is something that is out of the control of the developers.

Whilst sound issues exist, in many games, they aren't always caused by game code.

(If it's caused by some issues in the code, note that making audio function properly is a pretty hard task, especially on a modified version of source)

EDIT: Do note that not all bluetooth headsets share this exact issues, the reason why audio issues are hard to fix, is because there are so many different ones being used. In other games it has been made clear that users with bluetooth headsets make up the majority of these "audio issues" posts, which is something usually unrelated with the games.

Feels like you are making excuses for Respawns lack of ability to fix sound. 

They seem to have no problem creating hundreds of useless environmental sounds but can't make the most important ones relevant to game sense? 

Our teammates footsteps seem to work just perfectly....do they not?  Why since launch can I hear my teammates footsteps as clear as day from 30 yards away....but the enemy 2 feet behind me is silent? 

Are you suggesting that this issue is related to Bluetooth headsets and not related to the game? 

Clearly if our own teammates footsteps can be heard, including that of my own to an even higher degree than the enemy breathing on my neck - than does that not show the footsteps can be made to work and has nothing to do with headsets?  

Does Bluetooth headsets only affect enemy footsteps but leave that of teammates in tact. How can that be? 

At this point I would rather have my own and my teammates footsteps just be completely removed....at least that way I have a small chance to hear an enemy sprinting up behind me to to shoot me in the back of the head from inches away. 

I have tried multiple head sets, wired, wireless, cheap ones and ridiculously expensive BR pro gaming headsets. Its always the same. And vertical sound, be that above or below you is broken to all hell. 

Funny thing is my headsets all work perfect when I play fortnite, COD, PubG and other BR games, only Apex enemy footsteps is an issue.  How do you explain that? 

@NickBeam27 

I guess why it can sound like that, though I've seen this exact situation with so many games.

In the end it was always revealed that the biggest % were caused by bluetooth headsets.

Now I don't know the exact cause for this, though this isn't something related to a specific frequency.

Do note that there can be plenty of interference with bluetooth, next to that it has a whole different way of processing things... which is most likely the main cause.

This is the exact reason that players should use Ethernet instead of WiFi, especially when troubleshooting issues.

Using a bluetooth headset is just unreliable, audio issues should be tested properly, multiple headsets and all.

Now you've said that you tested it, further problems could indicate issues with your audio drivers or other forms of software/add-ons like Dolby Atmos

Every game interacts differently with drivers and hardware, though this doesn't always mean that the application is at fault.

Some games might use a specific way to create a certain action, which might be unsupported by certain drivers.

We can pretty much only blame devs if the commands sent by the application are invalid due to some reason within the client itself, though there are many steps taken before the audio gets somewhere.

Now if we are actually speaking of an issue that's caused by issues within the client, it would be near impossible to fix it.

You can hardly get player data as there are many headsets which will produce different results.

Soundcards/chips and other hardware differs, so they can't find the cause with player testing.

This means they'll have to do testing within the company itself, without any clues to what could be causing it. That would take lots of time and resources for something that's extremely hard to fix.

Now once they find it, they'll have to fix it in a way so it doesn't affect other things, which is already another big task.

Audio is hard in games, I'd personally cut some slack to the devs that make sure it all works.

I simply hear my teammate's footsteps over everything else, besides gunfire, to the point where I have to check to see if they're an enemy or not, because they're so loud, you can hear them even after you're 30+ meters away from your teammates. Not to mention that I can hear someone in another named location or about 3 buildings away do something like slide down steps, but the moment they get within 20 meters of me, they're completely silent. No footsteps, no nothing. I don't even hear their gunfire half the time. I just hear myself taking damage and my shields being instantly gone.

This seems like a game issue, because there are times where I can hear someone who's crouching (the subtle crunch of the crouch walking, that's supposed to be barely noticeable), and I just wondered why I was able to hear them, but not their Octane teammate stimming at me and getting point blank with a Peacekeeper, or their Pathfinder teammate spidermaning their way around the corner.

Literally the moment the audio became a real big issue, (where we just don't hear anything we're supposed to anymore), we got Seer as a legend. Mr 24/7 wall hacks who can detect you even when you're crouching. Seer is to Bloodhound, as Fade (Mobile legend) is to Wraith. Basically the same legend, just reworked.

@NickBeam27 Weird that it is consistent for certain users whilst it isn't for some.

I'd blame the engine they're using honestly, it's not exactly the best one to us.

Guess the players will just have to suffer until the solution has been found, damn.

Can anyone help me with my Sound in Apex? If i am not looking at something there is absolutelly no audio comming from there... For example if someone is shooting me from behind i only see  the  damage indicator but no sound what soever

@nemanjabogdanov

There is a workaround to improve footstep sounds on pc, outlined in the first post in the below thread: (also on xbox 1S with DTS settings and ps5 with headphones)

https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Improve-in-game-sounds-how-to/m-p/11720065#M216004