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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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.
I’ve been away a while and recently started playing again yesterday. Wow wow wow the lack of reliable sounds on this game are horrendous.
Tanks magically appear 10 feet away without making any sounds upon approach. They just seemingly materialize out of thin air. Often the only warning I have that a tank has appeared behind me a few feet away is getting blown up by the main gun.
Footstep sounds, or lack type of!! I get better quality and more reliable footstep sounds and better situational awareness playing BF1. A game that’s nearly a decade old.
@Zhukov211 wrote:I’ve been away a while and recently started playing again yesterday. Wow wow wow the lack of reliable sounds on this game are horrendous.
Tanks magically appear 10 feet away without making any sounds upon approach. They just seemingly materialize out of thin air. Often the only warning I have that a tank has appeared behind me a few feet away is getting blown up by the main gun.
Footstep sounds, or lack type of!! I get better quality and more reliable footstep sounds and better situational awareness playing BF1. A game that’s nearly a decade old.
I totally agree, tanks appearing behind you out of nowhere is happening way to often and is totally unacceptable.
I play on Xbox X with a wired pair of good quality headphones with the surround sound option and I seriously do not notice any issues.
When the game launched I could not pick up enemy infantry footsteps in my tank but they have fixed that now.
I hear the slightest movement by enemy soldiers who are hiding to the point where I've never heard such small movements in a battlefield game before.
I have never not heard a vehicle close by that I am aware of. I guess it could be happening and I just don't know if I don't end up seeing the vehicle.
- @Kona_uk Tank just got me like that last round like. I thinking that the tank should have been the only thing I heard. Maybe they’re game testing the new stealth tank.
- @SleepyWeasel68 If I had a dollar for every Bolt that road killed me with no warning… well I could buy a sixer anyways.
