Why can't you hear enemy footsteps or vehicles
The sound in this game is the worst in the franchise. I'm having a hard time hearing vehicles when right next to me, and footsteps... forget about it. Did anyone have suggestions?
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@WraithOf_HadesIt’s not you the game sound is 100% trash. Friends that sound like enemies. Bolts that are silent until they run over you. I’ve even had the sound completely stop until the need of the round, without only faint tinny small arms fire and a wind sound present. People have bought new headphones or upgraded computers to get the game to sound and run right, and while it’s not wasted as the equipment will work for other games, it doesn’t help them with 2042. PC, B550 Auros Pro (it’s got a great sound card), Sennheiser GSP 350 7.1 headphones.
Bad sound has been an issue for the franchise for a long time.
Go play BF4, footsteps are even worse than 2042 (believe it or not).
BF1 and especially BFV improved sound a lot, but it was still far from perfect.
Sounds coming from behind are often not played at all. In BFV if you put dynamite on a building and detonate it, with your back to explosion, it will often be totally silent, you perhaps hear the building crumble, but not the explosion. This is the same in 2042 (footsteps, vehicles, gunfire, parachutes etc).
But 2042 is almost as bad as BF4, all the improvements in BF1/BFV seems lost.
The sound is awful no matter how the few pretend the game is ok.
When a tank can sneak up on you in a game then the game sounds are broken.
Footsteps are just terrible the music is terrible everything about the sound is terrible.
MW2 beta sound was more battlefield than this game.
To add to this after playing another game.
2 of us were above a player we could hear/see them and they could hear us.
The difference was we were above making alot of noise.
The poor player was looking in totally the wrong direction whilst in ADS looking for us.
We were the only 2 players around and the other player was the only one from that team.
I knew what was going on the sound yet again making the game a bad experience for another player.
Felt sorry for them when i shot them.
