Black Ops 6 has no Footstep Audio!?

[@TheMarkBell]

Those Astro headsets I’d highly recommend to anyone. I purchased the A10’s about four years ago after watching Driftors destructive testing video and they are literally showing no signs of wear and tear. The original cable has been replaced but other than that the headset still works perfectly.

[@Drift0r]

A10 gang! My old A10s are still kicking too. I set a pair on fire and melted them (but couldn't show it in the video) and they still work!

[@Teecupp]

I've had a pair of a10s I bought for black ops 3 and I'm still using them to this day

[@kryvex4996]

Same here. I've had mine for almost 5 years because of his video, but they're bent on top (they still work completely fine, just puncturing my head now), so now I go A20s, and I love them

[@dondrerichardson7289]

Only here for Drift0r and the algo hope your heath stays well buddy been a fan since Bo1

[@omarw007]

You would hear foot steps if you were still using the Astros 😜

[@KevinKoolx]

The low footstep volume allowed people to move without fear of being completely "sound-whored". With the lack of dead silence this is needed. There is also a field upgrade that turns up footstep volume

[@Snougaloogie]

Dead Silence/Ninja is in the full game, it was in the leaked builds

[@ThuhGGGeenius]

I heard footsteps perfectly fine tbh

[@MarioYalda95]

I play on on TV with just regular speakers and have the sound Volume around 15% lol imagine paying hundred of dollars for a headset to soundwhore enemies in pubs lmao y’all sad for real. I hope itll be worth it for y’all to got deaf before hitting 40yo just for few extra kills in cod public matches.

[@twostop6895]

@@ThuhGGGeenius no you didn't

[@warmredwater]

@@Snougaloogie They may have tuned the audio that way for just the beta which doesn't have DS yet.

[@TruthfullyBogus]

Thats by design. The devs got tired of everyone complaining about Dead Silence so they pretty much gave it to everyone while still keeping + adding to the "movement demon" mechanics. It's getting aggravating because CoD used to be a healthy balance of both camping and rushing but between the studios and the MW and BO titles we either get "FAST FAST FAST" or "Sentinal" gameplay.

[@kingcaesar3693]

I don't really get this. They figured this crap out in like CoD 4 in 2007. It was fine to me then. I could tell a guy was running to me, and even understood if they were above or below once I learned the maps. I'd take 2007 audio over this modern spatial junk.

[@liammbiscwit]

@@kingcaesar3693 Both just missing the point though, using old cods for nostalgia reasons. Back then less people wore headsets and the quality of the sound has changed. All the gameplay comes from the players themselves not the game design, developers keep adjusting sounds etc because of the changing playstyles and community. because dead silence has existed almost as long as cod so every game will have have a mix of not hearing footsteps and hearing them. People just always need to blame something, not to mention i have my master volume on 8 (cod settings) and i can still hear fine and directional where they are

[@42ZaphodB42]

Its the only game that has such an issue with footsteps. You can hear footsteps in any other game. Just dont make them tramples, add in a good amount of ambient audio - and youre fine.

[@KeyJOSH8]

Well, COD isn't exactly a "middle-ground" kind of community. When the community doesn't like something, they beg for it to be scrapped altogether, and when it's scrapped, they beg for it to be brought back. I can't wait for the next 'COD cycle,' where people will say, "Movement is way too hectic, and actually, MW2 wasn't so bad."

[@Slurpified]

MWII still had the best flow out of any next gen cod except BO3. That game was the closest to the orginal fundamentals we saw in old cods. And they actually got the spawns right. But with MWIII and BO6 we went right back to square one lol a complete alienated cod. Tbh loud footsteps have always been a thing in cod it should stay.

[@SuosRift]

Eh that's strange because the footstep audio on this was better than all recent mw games. I can tell exactly where they are coming from and how far

[@ReboyGTR]

*Drift0r, a lot of audio engineers use the Yamaha NS-10 when mixing and mastering BECAUSE they sound like crap. Hence the old adage "If it sounds good on a pair of Yamaha NS-10's it will sound good on anything."* *While it is generally not advisable, you can mix on headphones as well. Just be sure they're open-back with a large soundstage.*

[@ACE112ACE112]

is this firstn hand knowledge or yoounhave friends in this space?

[@ReboyGTR]

@@ACE112ACE112 A little bit of both. I studied a semester at SAE. Not audio engineering itself but electronic music production. And if you're not mixing your own tracks you're doing it wrong.

[@VexxedSR]

A lot of audio engineers used NS-10 because of consistency. If most of the studios had them then it was best you had them so the audio engineers were listening to something they knew. You can mix on a cheapo used pair of 20 year old speakers if you fully understand their strengths and weaknesses and get used to how they sound. It's not about sounding good or bad it's about consistency and mass availability. Same reason a lot of studios use the Sony MDR-7506, mass availability and consistency.

[@illegalTyrant]

I hear footsteps loud as heck but I can never tell if it’s enemy or teammates

[@MrCondor26]

There is footstep audio, but i cannot differenciate with whether or not they're close, or further away. The same goes for gunfire, ESPECIALLY with suppressed weapons. Most of the time i couldn't tell if the gunfire is distant, or there is literally someone right behind me, and before i can figure that out it's already to late and i die.

[@emwols]

This is very accurate. To me footsteps are louder than someone shooting a gun right next to you

[@YourGuySmallFry]

I used the microphone field upgrade that's supposed to make footsteps louder and still didn't hear anything.

[@mankisman]

I agree, I hear absolutely nothing like 90% of the time, but I’m always getting tracked across map by my footsteps by enemies.

[@Smitdogz]

Honestly thought the footsteps were a lot louder in the game 😂 I don’t even have my audio up high at all. I think there’s a few things at play that might make you perceive them as quiet. 1. Your ears 2. Lethal spam (mainly Semtex) 3. Footstep range drop off I find it very easy to differentiate teammate and enemy footsteps. (Turtle beach Stealth Pro) admittedly an expensive headset.

[@stevio2175]

Footsteps are perfect IMO. If you listen, you hear them. If you’re running or there is action, you probably won’t. I love it, think it is perfectly balanced and hope it does not change.

[@ThuhGGGeenius]

100% agree, I heard them perfectly fine and could tell the directions etc

[@ACE112ACE112]

what headphones do you have and which audio settings? what volume level do you use with your phone and which phone do you have

[@warhawk3136]

​@@ThuhGGGeenius at what point? In the last day or 2 or when the beta just started. I played opening weekend and I never heard any.

[@ThuhGGGeenius]

@@warhawk3136 for me throughout I play ps5 not that it should make a difference. Maybe it’s the volume I play at through my headphones

[@warhawk3136]

@@ThuhGGGeenius I'm on steam for PC and I tried to hear footstep audio and never could. I never tried turning the volume up on my computer but I don't think I should have to.

[@kidthekiddo8996]

the update yesterday turned footstep audio up, and i immediately doubled my kd by playing a bit slower and soundwhoring ppl. i liked it better when it was quieter, i hope to see them revert the change

[@eli_da_man_]

I've definitely noticed this, I never knew when someone was near me and was genuinely baffled at times when an enemy snuck up on me

[@stevenshatswell53]

Weird. I think the footsteps sound fine. I hear the enemy fine, and can tell whether they're below or above me. I don't have my audio up insanely loud either.

[@YxngTexas]

Glad I wasn’t the only one that couldn’t hear footsteps.

[@LLIMIT]

I heard the footstep audio just fine. I didn’t have any problem hearing people through walls/ around corners.

[@emwols]

Someone shooting 5 feet from you is quieter than someone running 5 feet from you in my experience. Suppressors are pretty much inaudible. Footsteps are plenty loud to me.

[@Zaratium]

there were a couple of times where i was able to hear enemy footsteps behind me and ngl hearing those footsteps kept me alive. i like being able to run around freely so i think the way its currently setup, its nice

[@vulcan422]

I never would have expected the footstep audio to ever become this bad in a COD game, but here we are.

[@MrDJSilenze]

I had a number of moments where I was flashed or hit by a streak with NO AUDIO cue. I don't use headphones, but compared to MW3 I hear footsteps, streaks, gun fire, grenages and all. There where times battlefield audio seemed completely nonexisit say for 2-3 seconds. I think its all an over all audio issue that needs polishing.

[@rileyhowe2898]

Good keep it this way. Cod has turned into whoever has the best headphones wins by default. I miss when gunplay was the main focus of call of duty

[@TheSpawnTrapper]

I've never agreed with having perks that increase footstep audio, would prefer to get rid of that and maybe have slightly louder footsteps by default but having Ninja/Dead Silence as a counter.

[@Bob-bf3cg]

Good. It’s not fun having to crank up your headset all the way to combat the nerds. I like to be able to talk with friends, play background music etc.

[@thxstrax5239]

This game should have less campers if there’s not footstep audio

[@emwols]

You would be saddened to hear this is not the case. The footsteps are not as loud but can be heard from quite a far distance. So only the nerds that crank up their audio will be able to hear footsteps effectively while going deaf in the process

[@42ZaphodB42]

Ah, yes, design a game around people who listen to music while gaming. That makes sense.

[@ACE112ACE112]

What? isn't it more necrssary to crank up audio if drift0r is saying the footsteps are quiet af

[@KCAssassin98]

​@@42ZaphodB42Yeah cod should always cater to casuals. Just because you're afraid to play actual competitive games doesn't mean every other game should cater to your ego

[@giovanigomez9736]

Footsteps have no place in public matches, only make people to camp more and hear when you are coming Making impossible to move

[@Hoserzzz]

I use a dedicated dac/amp with either my my Hifiman Sundara or my Beyerdynamic DT1990 Pro. No joke audio setup, and I dont think I heard a single footstep the entire beta.

[@whatthedogdoin.]

Am I the only one that disagrees? It's very easy to hear when someone is running up stairs or someone running underneat you when you stand on the roof in skyline. Not very high but clearly audible

[@chizzle4133]

Drift0r man I subbed to you back in the day for black ops 2 and stopped watching a few years ago when I gave up on COD but every now and then I check if you uploaded any new philosophy commentaries. Pretty please bring those back They were my favourite 🙏🏻

[@mrmeownandez732]

I wanna encourage pace and less camping.

[@Tycrome]

That warthog sound was so accurate

[@atreides6]

Drift0r posting on the reg is taking me back to BO2 days and I’m here for it!

[@river2352]

Not surprised, everyone is flying through the air

[@tool8337]

I agree. I use Focal Radiance headphones with a ifi Zendac 3 on the laptop audio setting. If anyone could hear footsteps, its me with that setup. I agree that they are a bit too quiet. However, I am on team "don't punish players for moving around." The worst case is having to crank the volume to hear footsteps and damaging your hearing with all the unbalanced explosions and FX. What about balancing it so gunfire is easy to locate from a distance and footsteps have a really short audible range but they are crystal clear from within that short range? I prefer to play at low volumes and could still hear footsteps perfectly in the recent games. Just do that but only within 5 meters.

[@theward0ctor974]

Ninja / Dead silence is supposed to be in the full game. Im wondering if they messed up and this is supposed to be the ninja footsteps compared to normal. If it is then its fine to have them like this. I think its more of an issue of footsteps being a bit hard to tell exactly what distance / height they are coming from not necessarily noise level.

[@DevonVanNote]

It's interesting that audio mixers in games listen mostly loudly. As a musician, I actually make sure to listen to my mix quiet and on crappy speakers.

[@dallebull]

Nice to see you sitting up man! :)

[@BlueLightningSky]

Having loud footsteps would encourage people to just camp. Which is why any perk that makes you completely silent is a top tier perk. I would never take off that perk.

[@kranqi7496]

For flashbangs and such - check your accessibility settings, you may have reduce tinnitus turned on

[@Zeromobius19]

I had no problems with for step audio but i also have audeze Maxwell and a50x's. Not as loud as mw2/3 but I'm happy with it. I can actually move around more.

[@zqhtpro]

This is why I played this game like I did bo4. Muted or very low volume with other audio sources going lol

[@bianchi4490]

Hey driftor! Long time fan. Keep up the good content. Did you try the acoustic amp? Maybe it was intentional so that equipment would be more useful? But I do agree the footsteps need to be turned up a notch or two. I would also hope the game has more anti movement equipment like the neurogas or the proximity mines. The gas equipment seemed weak though.

[@ĆrankyÓldMan2024]

I saw a couple videos of people using Ninja perk, which not only made your own footsteps quieter, but also seemed to make others footateps louder.

[@azizmoya1186]

If you didn’t hear footsteps y’all need to go get ya ears checked there are worse things y’all need to complain about most if they would bring 3 lane maps back and stop the climbing maybe you would die less from the back

[@ThanosWasRightt]

What I think it's balance is very low footsteps sounds, only very close to prevent people from sneaking up on you. If players want to play with sound, they use sitrep or whatever perk to boost sound, if the player never want to be sound whored, they use ninja. That's it.

[@captain_squiddy]

Good. You literally cannot flank or sneak up on people when footsteps are loud. Loud footsteps actively encourage and reward people for camping. Toning down footsteps is the best thing they good have done to not have a repeat of MW 2019 and MW2. Team deathmatch on MW2 literally plays slower than Search and Destroy on other CoDs

[@potapotapotapotapotapota]

I despise loud footsteps, makes the game wayyy more campy.

[@TheErikjsm]

i feel like its fine on skyline but for some reason not on any other map, id like them to be just slightly louder. we dont need a repeat of mw2 (22) which is what will happen if they increase them too much

[@takerkanefan108]

i experienced no footstep audio and no grenade explosion audio at times, but then again im on ps4

[@TopazBeast]

This was the first cod I ever played where I quite literally never heard footsteps

[@thekingfin8171]

Dang that sucks I didn't know anyone was having problems with the footsteps I mean it was a problem the first few days but after I changed my play style and actively listening for them it might help y'all

[@TheLoboCinema]

Bro no way! i hear footsteps loud and clear. And i rather have dead silence then people hearing me a mile away

[@nerdedkyle3515]

I noticed I could hear footsteps better when someone was above or below me compared to when they're on the same level as me

[@Hudsonator99]

In a way I don't hate this decision, maybe people will move around more and camp less

[@Vordb666]

Kind of moot when the audio is getting adjusted for this weekend's beta lol but I get this is basically just a sponsored Astros video

[@Arctic3OD]

I love the quiet footsteps. I hate the quiet gunfire. I despise the sound of getting hit as it doesn't come from the direction of the gunfire but from the part of my body which took the bullet.

[@maniatikgeek_pr]

Sound for flash bangs can be enable in settings

[@Greeny5051]

I've been killed some many times by hearing my team-mates footsteps over the enemy ( which is non-existent )

[@AdreanStyles09]

I only hear footsteps when they’re close and on maps like Skyline which have different levels It’s very hard to tell the direction they are coming from.

[@yhzh2002]

I found I could hear footsteps fine to around 10m as long as I wasn't shooting my gun. I'm using pc loudness equalization and the highest compression PC speakers audio setting. You definitely have to pay more attention to the sound than with the super loud footsteps and slides in the MW reboot series. I did have trouble hearing when people were on different elevation, though I have that issue with most COD games.

[@Pawz2142]

Footsteps were really hard to hear when i first started up the game and I did notice them mostly missing so I went into Steelseries Sonar applied a custom EQ and it's better...not great just better so I think it's the sound mixing. If i'd have to guess it would have something to do with the omni movement being overwhelming if turned up too high.

[@MattIceburg]

My hope is that this was their way to counter loudness equalization. Make the footstep volume so low that Loudness EQ is basically useless.

[@generaljm7560]

I must have been playing a different game: I felt like footsteps were too loud, especially if enemies were above or below you as I always found it easy to track them as they ran by. Also felt like I got smoked by players who heard me approaching more often than not.

[@JayJay-sk3iu]

Dell catchin strays LOL

[@alexl.4362]

Do Black Ops in depth again, Drift0r.

[@Daishi0861]

I don't have too much difficulty with footstep audio or spatial location, using a pair of 660S headphones & the default headphone preset in the game. They're quiet for sure, but they aren't silent and I can hear them in the mix. I think you vastly overestimate the quality of the sound equipment used by engineers; yes, some places can have extremely high end kit, but unlike audiophiles, their work is also a business, and using some dt770s because they were 130 bucks instead of 3000 makes sense.

[@ddddsasawwfdwafaw]

I have gotten taken hostage so many times while sniping its not even funny I don't hear them coming ever which makes me think its an intentional feature so taking hostages is more possible

[@WerewolfEntertainment]

I feel like they will increase the audio a bit overtime. Also, I would rather them incrementally increase it because it’s kind of low low then have to incrementally. Decrease it because it’s obnoxiously high.

[@Tport712]

As always. THEY SHOULD KEEP THEM OFF AND HAVE WAYS TO HEAR THEM. If you make us use ninja or dead silence everyone is just going to use that. But if they make everyone's footsteps quiet and then add the amp as a field upgrade or prox alarms those things aren't completely game changing but can be countered.

[@fluxrono1811]

1. i agree i never heard the footsteps, its weird but depending on how any audio boosting perks work it might be fine, otherwise I think ninja will be a "dead" perk 2. side tangent, but from your story of editors not using other types of headsets to hear back a video to ensure its good, makes me think of the KZbinrs who play scary games or games with a lot of dark areas where we viewers cant see anything at all, from the brightness the video has, but the player can see on their own screen/game perfectly from their settings very well. i always hated those as it ruins so much when you cant see a video as well as they are and they don't understand when you tell them. "like look at that body over there in the corner guys, meanwhile my screen is fully black besides their HUD elements"

[@mikearmentrout3373]

Definitely need to increase footsteps. I ran into a few issues, but used it to my advantage as well. I'm using my EPOS game one headset.

[@varunaX]

i searched google cause i was experiencing the exact same thing during the beta and found this video. there is zero footstep sounds, it gotta be a bug. a horrible bug. i dont know how anyone didnt notice during 4 years of development.

[@mellowmelee5024]

I hear footsteps fine if it's quiet. I hope it's just your ears desensitizing with age because no one moves when footsteps get cranked. I also have the reduced tinnitus sound effect checked so flash and stuns are quieter.

[@tatum5959]

They're trying to help people get clips of the new hostage feature. kinda hard to do if your feet are as loud as your gunfire.

[@christineencrypt3892]

I hear my teammates the most. But I do hear footsteps and I didn’t really change settings.

[@hamza-chaudhry]

As someone who plays in noisy environments and uses crappy ear buds, I really don't mind this.

[@GuilhermeHolz]

Footsteps are incredibly buggy, you can hear them perfectly if people are on a different elevation but on the same elevation they are virtually inexistent

[@wayneslater6951]

Yeah the first time I was flashed I thought my system had turned off.

[@feveredmushroomHD]

flash bang makes my screen go black completely ...is that normal?

[@nskdk]

not gonna lie i havnt had issues with hearing footsteps but just looking at my audio setup it makes sense I am using a steel series doc equalizer so I can hear the steps way better but if I disable the eq I cant hear any footsteps on less I am camping quietly in a corner so I agree hope they dosome fixing later

[@Artemis0567]

I think its intended... Think about all the noise things like omni-movement would make if you could hear yours, your teammates and the enemy's.. it would be unplayable. Would give you as much help as removing it does. Atleast when the sounds are removed or turned down, your ears arent being blasted by noise that you cant discern.

[@Tw1xdot_]

it sounds pretty good to me...if they aren't including Dead silence (which they should absolutely not) this sound works well. The footsteps pop into audio long before people run up on you. Change your audio to night mode, and turn off game music. I play at low volume because my hearing is sensitive. I think peoples headphones are tuned badly and theyre expecting the best things out of them. The audio sounded like this at mw19 launch, and as soon as they changed it because people complained in the beta, it was garbage.

[@dr_zephyr]

Treyarch literally said themselves that the audio is extremely buggy and a lot of audio ques aren’t playing for people when they’re supposed to, the actual audio settings are completely bugged too with none of the audio presets not actually changing anything and surround sound not actually outputting surround, it is most definitely broken right now and doesn’t sound very good at all

[@Tw1xdot_]

@@dr_zephyrthey didn’t say it’s extremely buggy. They said they’re tweaking it because it’s not to their liking and some things can not trigger or be missed. Relax

[@riisky2411]

After the update they sounded pretty good to me. Besides o thought mp players didn’t want loud footsteps. Thats more important in battleroyal

[@nathanwaldrop3723]

I’m happy about it I can actually flank people and play aggressively

[@uhohimlaggin]

I was hearing footsteps from day 1 and thought it was perfect. After the patch it’s so loud it’s overstimulating

[@TeamKhandiKhane]

If this is a feature, here's how I see it. If they really nerfed the sound in the 3d jetpack era so you wouldn't get clipped for using the movement options when that is *exactly* the compromise something like that *should have* I know why I quit the series. I hope that's not true.

[@zurenity5460]

I think theres a perk for louder footsteps or did i imagine that?

[@UltimateDan1]

There’s no footstep audio because there are no footsteps when everyone just slides around the entire time.

[@Keeennnyyyy310]

Prob will have a perk to crank up the footstep sound

[@TheDuffman1812]

This video was just an ad for that headset. I had no issue with footstep audio and I was using a piece of crap headset.

[@RogueSystem087]

i'm glad there is no audo footsteps tbh. I'm really just so sick of footsteps

[@Manvsbeargettinfood]

In a headset it was meh, on the surround sound footsteps were very audible and helpful. Maybe it’s for the couch dads lmao

[@EverlostXP]

In kill cams I can hear my own feet so loud but I can’t hear anyone’s just very rarely. A lot of people sound whoring I wouldn’t mind if I had dead silence. Then do whatever they want to feet sounds.

[@shrimpson123]

just buy a few bundles and you'll hear everyone no matter where they are on the map

[@Carbn84]

I'm so confused. I can hear footsteps no problem. I've have multiple people running behind me and I've turned on them every time. Before I played it I heard everyone say there is no footstep audio and I was excited. But I hear them no problem. I see killcams where people hear me coming. Flash and concussions I agree I don't get audio when hit by them. Screen just turns black or I slow down and can't move. But footsteps are fine to me. Edit: I use, maybe $80-$100 pair of steel series wired headsets. Had them for awhile so not exactly sure of the price but definitely not as expensive as high end ASTRO or Turtlebeaches. I do have the volume maxed out but which makes menu music super loud but gunfire and explosions are absolutely fine compared to footsteps

[@froilen13]

According to thunder the footsteps can be heard easy

[@PricefieldPunk]

I hope its only cause its a Beta but not having dead silence for a game like this where ppl are running like the Flash is gonna suck.

[@tonyp114]

Regarding your sponsor, I wanna go back to Astro/Logitech but why haven’t other companies adopted SteelSeries dual battery system? It works sooo well

[@oBCHANo]

When people are moving around as fast as they are of course they are silent, it makes it harder for you to know what's going on, it's taking info away from good players and making the game more chaotic. They literally add things like this every single year without fail so it's not surprising to see that this is this years version of that garbage.

[@Joey_Cisar]

It’s like this in Warzone too

[@charliehodge5132]

I heard plenty of people walking behind me and i'm just using a cheap pair of A10's lol I actually liked the footstep volume better on bo6 vs bf 2042 it was way toooo loud on battlefield teammates and enemies. But that's just personal i have sensitive ears.

[@Shad0wPh0enixXx]

I have the a50x and it definitely isn't a headset problem because I still can't hear anything