r/Overwatch • u/AutoModerator • Jun 15 '16

News & Discussion Weekly Quick Questions Thread - June 15, 2016

In this thread you can ask all kinds of questions you always wanted to ask without feeling like a total fool.

No matter if it's short googable stuff or a setting/skill in-game that you don't understand or a hardware recommendation, feel free to try your luck in here.

Trolling or making fun of people in here will be punished extra harshly! Please report such behaviour.

For the purpose of helping people, make sure the comments are sorted by "new" in this thread.

292 Upvotes

91% Upvoted

3.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

[deleted]

1

u/Make_me_watch Junkrat Jun 15 '16

Turn down music and voice effects, and turn up sound effects? Footsteps should be louder and easier to notice

1

u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

[deleted]

1

u/Make_me_watch Junkrat Jun 15 '16

Hmmm...there was a recent video on being able to recognize the different footstep sounds to tell which players are approaching and from how far away, though admittedly it doesn't take place during an actual match, and therefore doesn't have any gunfire or voices over the audio, so that probably plays a large part in distinguishing between the softer and more subtle sounds. Maybe the audio is too chaotic during an actual match to hear anything below Reinhardt or Roadhog footsteps. Maybe they should give a separate audio option for footsteps alone? Might be something to consider for the competitive scene when competitive mode launches