I found a way to fix the (footstep) sounds

Thank you!! Spent the life cycle of this game so far hating sound or lack of and not being able to get past that. Tried several apps and a couple pairs of headphones then ended on the game must just be bad but couldn't understand how some people always seem to hear me. Just played a few back-to-back rounds on tdm using this and I could hear and react, and I felt like I was actually playing a game instead of random dudes appearing to my back. 

I dont see this option on xbox

What Audio > Sound System and Audio Mix are you using paired with this?

Good looking out OP.  I've found the Spacial audio for PC to not be very good.  Has changing this setting to ultra impacted your FPS or introduced latency since its beeing processed by the CPU (which is already maxed out)?

Yes, unfortunately it introduced a lot of frame time/stuttering issues, so I ended up not using it. After some further testing I found that the sound was still not acceptable.

I've tested a lot of different settings and none of them really give me what I'm looking for.

Audio Mix:

Night Mode, Wartapes and Wartapes V.A.L. tend to have a narrow dynamic range, which is good for hearing quiet sounds like footsteps. Unfortunately it also means that the sound tends to become a little bit more muddy and less holographic. It's easier to hear footsteps, but it's harder to identify their exact location. The footsteps are still way too quiet though.

Default Mix and High Dynamics have better dynamic range. Default mix was just bad across the board. I found that High Dynamics offers the best sound quality and separation, but it does require you to crank up the volume to hear the quieter sounds. It's still feels too distant and not very holographic, you can't really pinpoint the location of the footsteps.

Sound System:

I haven't tried Mono, 2.1 stereo, quad, 5.0, 5.1 and 7.1 because those tend to be for multi-speaker setups, while I play with high-end headphones. Spatial 3D seems broken. Stereo/Headphones both offer the best sound quality as far as I can tell, but footstep loudness remain a problem.

3D Headphones in combination with something like Windows Sonar or DTS Headphone X seems to do well in terms of sound separation, directionality and allowing you to properly locate footsteps, but the footsteps still seemed way too silent. The reason why I don't like using 3D headphones is because enabling Windows Sonic or DTS nukes the sound quality in Windows to a maximum of 24 bit 48 kHz. This is significantly worse than what my system is able to output and it just sound so much worse.

So I don't really bother trying to fix it anymore. There are plenty of other games, even older Battlefield titles that have way better sound. I just default to Stereo/High Dynamics, because that's what sounds the best on my system in terms of sound quality.

I hear my foot steps. my squad foot steps. bot foot steps. just not enemy footsteps

i suggest turning that generic gain button on enemy foot steps up to max :)

Yeah great for PC. What about consoles? I play on Xbox. 

I can hop on BF2042 for Xbox RIGHT NOW and reliably and consistently hear enemy vehicles and enemy footsteps. I assure you this was not the case when 2042 went live. 

I played 2042 for the Road to BF6 skins and I was shocked and impressed by how good the enemy footsteps and enemy vehicle sounds were a just couple months ago. Well done DICE! Now please do the same with BF6. 

I must have 30 to 50 deaths a day as a direct result of enemy tanks appearing inches away next to my infantryman in areas where seconds prior there was no tank. My first hint of an enemy tank being inches away in the tank blasting me or running me over The same goes for enemy infantry. 

This is Dollar Store sounds design. 

In ear monitors (IEM) are the best for positional audio in multiplayer games. I've used inexpensive $20 Salnotes Zero IEM and they blew away $200 Sennheiser HD 560 S and $300 Beyerdynamic DT 900 PRO X headphones when it came to position audio.

Does the inexpensive IEM sound better than headphones? No! Do IEM have better positional audio? Absolutely!

Unfortunately IEM stretch out your ear canals so I don't consider them good for your health. Cranking up the volume in headphones to hear footsteps also isn't good for your health.

I've moved on to surround sound speakers to help protect my hearing. Keeping them at a reasonable volume.

I've been complaining about the sound in this game since playtesting it. The sound design desperately needs a lot of work, and I am counting on them to fix it. Hopefully sooner, rather than later. Footsteps, tanks, helicopters, any vehicle, can just appear out of nowhere without making any sound at all. Sometimes I can barely hear them. Even when I hear any of these things, I cannot tell the direction they're coming from. I've died so many times because of this, it's ridiculous. This was the biggest play tested Battlefield game in history, with multiple studios working on it, yet here we are dealing with sound issues, among other things.

Hopefully they'll address this issue soon.