STEPS - Why Cant I Hear Steps?

Le Rouge · January 28, 2012, 04:16:34 PM

In other online games, you could hear some1 running next to you or behind you. For some reason, in BF3 I cant.
Does anyone else have this problem? Or do you hear fellow players walking by you?

TE_owner · January 28, 2012, 04:30:45 PM

Nope for some reason your own footsteps are as loud as any gun but those around you are stealthy ninja like assassins :/

TheDvEight · January 28, 2012, 06:54:05 PM

if you have decent headphones you can, ive been camping in a corner and knew an enemy was coming by the footsteps in bf3

Snokio · January 28, 2012, 10:29:31 PM

Thought you was talking about the pop band

JonnyAppleSeed · January 29, 2012, 02:08:56 PM

Could you be using 5.1 speaker setup on ya card .... but only have normal headphones ?

Chaosphere · January 29, 2012, 03:00:10 PM

I can hear them, but they are easily drowned out. Guess that is about right though... gunfire sure is loud

Sparko · January 29, 2012, 10:33:31 PM

Get yourself on red orchestra, you can definatly hear footsteps

....only joking

I had to mess around with my sound settings a little when I first got the game, I just did trial and error to see what worked

Blunt · January 29, 2012, 11:32:02 PM

Quote from: Sparko;343227Get yourself on red orchestra, you can definatly hear footsteps ....only joking

RO2 has quite strange sounds compared to other games I play, you can hear yourself moving even when you simply turn your body.
I'd recommend it if you like sounds

ArithonUK · January 30, 2012, 08:33:52 AM

QuoteWhy can't I hear steps?

Because Claire and H left the group in 2001 maybe? (and no, I didn't know that - I looked it up on wikipedia....)

But seriously, as I understand it BF3 has a multi-track sound mixing system with layers of sound. The "gunfire" layer and "footsteps" layer are the same, so that you can't hear boots tromping in a firefight, to be realistic.

Try standing somewhere quiet like the empty stalls in the side corridor of Grand Bazzar between B and C and see if you hear other players running past.

DuVeL · January 30, 2012, 04:42:15 PM

Quote from: ArithonUK;3432391)Because Claire and H left the group in 2001 maybe? (and no, I didn't know that - I looked it up on wikipedia....)

2)Try standing somewhere quiet like the empty stalls in the side corridor of Grand Bazzar between B and C and see if you hear other players running past.

1) Had to laugh at this.
2) Don't try it on Seine in an alleyway. Unless you like cats...