@PikachuRuns@LordAwozI might have a solution for you guys. I've had this happen at the beginning of this season as well.
Watch this:
How to improve your audio in Apex Legends and hear footsteps better - YouTube
It fixed it for me.
The method outlined above could get you a ban.
"When you access or use an EA Service, you agree that you will not:
Modify any file or any other part of the EA Service that EA does not specifically authorize you to modify."
https://www.ea.com/legal/user-agreement
There is a way to improve footsteps on pc, outlined in the below thread:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Improve-in-game-sounds-how-to/m-p/11720065#M216004
@swift07 others have tried sonar and its worked great, my son as an example.
Adjusting files gives an unfair advantage, eqing the sounds dosnt.
@OldTreeCreeper Unfortunately this is not only an issue of "hearing footsteps", it's a literally gamebreaking bug that completely cuts out audio in a 270 degree cone behind you, giving you only audio from straight in front of you (45 degrees to each side). The devs have not done anything to address it, nor said that it's a known issue despite there being more than one bug report on it, as the thread have clearly stated. They haven't even replied that the issue is "being looked at" anywhere I can see.
When reinstalling does not help, and nothing in the standard game files work, what other options are there???? Keep playing with a broken game and lose because Respawn are too busy cashing in on reskinning stuff in the store for overpriced coins? Me playing with or without headphones is pretty much the same right now, and if you don't think that's a disadvantage I don't know what world you live in.
The only feeling I get from Respawn atm is that they are either forced by EA to put a majority of their team on microtransaction-related features, or that they themselves have simply stopped caring about the health and state of the game and just want to cash in as much as possible before abandoning ship... The state of the game since S13 is horrible, not even including cheaters, smurfs and other illegal activities in the game.
It pains me to say it, because this is genuinely the best movement battle royale out there and I really want to keep playing, but I am starting to lose the enjoyment playing a game that is riddled with cheaters, bugs and other gamebreaking *. ☹️
@LordAwoz it is my son's experience that footsteps are audible behind you, in fact 360 degrees, both up and down using SSS. This implies that all the audio is there, and if footsteps can be brought to the fore, then other sounds that you desire can be too.
SSS can diminishe other sounds, but my son dosnt care about them. He uses the SSS apex settings with some of his own adjustments.
I don't really consider it gamebraking when somthing like SSS works well on pc.
I play on xbox and really have no options like SSS, but the dtx sound settings has really imoroved things, which I'm exploring at the moment in arenas.
It's a real pity that the visual audio is nowhere near as good as fortnite, which I can happily play with the sound off.
@swift07 if you put the sound through a good stereo you might get the same results using similar eq settings.
No it's not the same, as you are not breaking the tos. The tos is very clear about file adjustment.
But I understand about hearing no footsteps and how bad the situation is with that. I've played for 3 years in that situation, but the dts settings that I only became aware of recently on my xbox have really improved the footsteps.
@swift07 you may have to change you mind later this year.
"EA anti-cheat is a kernel-mode anti-cheat and anti-tamper solution developed in-house at Electronic Arts."
https://www.ea.com/en-gb/security/amp/news/eaac-deep-dive
There are sacrifices to the sound when you eq some over others, my son wasn't bothered about that at all.
