Hey,

I don't know what's going on but I'm find that a lot of the time the enemy have no footstep sounds. I checked my killcam and they don't have Covert Ops :S

Another forum member has said before that perhaps it's because they are in cloak, but I have lots of experience on this game and I know for a fact that there are still footsteps sounds in cloak. It wouldn't make sense if they removed them since why would cloak make you physically lighter?

I find it really annoying because other than seeing SE cloaker is sound, I need and use sound for situational awareness. I thought that maybe it was other sounds drowning out the footsteps, but I played TIA earlier and it was deadly quiet for about 10 secs so I stood still. Then all of a sudden I died, this is when I knew that I wasn't going crazy or making excuses.

I've known this through all my reboots (5th now), however since I've been using non-Elite classes this reboot and racked up about 3000 kills without SE now, that I need footsteps to work consistently otherwise it makes non-Elite classes even harder.

Anyone else find this to be the case?

PLEASE VOTE!!!

Its because there are different ground surfaces, cloak does make footstep noise quieter, just not silent, and if you focus on other noise, you may not hear it. Selective hearing is real xP

Some surfaces make no noise, most do though, it seems stairs are one of those surfaces.

So annoying!!

I don't know what to believe lol We need something from Crytek telling us what affects footstep sounds because they don't work half the time.

I know what you're saying about selective hearing but I selectively and deliberately listen out for footsteps sounds all the time.. it's my main way of finding people so I know that I'm focusing on other sounds too much.

Even if you listen for them, some surfaces are quieter then others and mixed with cloak literally cannot be heard

This happens a lot on terminal for some reason, they should buff footstep noise all together unless they have covert ops