The footstep audio needs to be fixed players running right behind me and I can’t hear a peep. I shouldn’t need headphones to hear a player wall bouncing, roadie running, vaulting behind or right next to me. Gears 4 has the same issue but it’s nowhere near as bad as gears 5. The fast movement makes it worse, you have to constantly watch your back (only to get blindsided) especially on modes like FFA and KOH where spawns are random. Please make the audio make sense.
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So you are not using headphones?
Just tv sound?
It will never give spatial awareness in the way a good headset can.
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Fixed*
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hahahahaa, as long as the player has the FREEDOM LANCER and the longshot YOU’LL CONQUER any ODDS 
hahahhahahah
Don’t have my headphones at the moment but I usually play with them and even then the audio feels all over the map. I never had trouble with tv audio on gears 123 or UE
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Actually I’ve been having the same issue and I use headphones. Lately I haven’t been able to hear anyone come up behind me but so far it hasn’t gotten me killed. Just really scared the sh*t out of me
I dont have the problem with footsteps as much as with frags
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It was just that one time. Happens to everyone sooner or later.
Usually I don’t have performance problems.
To be fair, I use a headset and I experience audio issues quite often on Gears 5. Footstep audio not playing. Enemies in horde sounding like they’re right next to me when they’re Bon Jovi across the map, etc.
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Do you use Dolby?
Whatever TB uses in their stealth 300 headset. But regardless I don’t have audio issues in other games such as siege where audio is considerably more important than it is in gears. My audio problems are gears specific. Also have friends who have considerably better headsets than myself who also claim to have audio issues in Gears 5.
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I don’t seem to have the issues on the regular. Occasionally, it seems the audio gets jumbled. There were constant threads about audio quality (or lack thereof) in Gears 4.
I believe there are issues, it just seems we can’t narrow why some seem to love the audio and and others despise it.
Gears 4 had terrible above audio. Sounded like they were beside me instead of above. That seems to have improved in 5.
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For me it’s just the footstep audio not playing sometimes and the spatial audio screwing up. Was playing horde with Red and we both heard what sounded like a juvie running right next to us, but was on the other end of the map.
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I blame Red for that.
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You’re probably right. Pineapple pizza eating monster
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Na man I had all my cards equipped
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I have new headphones its called the game suxs an there foosteps sound like they are a mile away … Lol @Slipping_Flames he shouldnt have to pay extra money for Dolby to make the games audio work properly
Shouldn’t have to pay up for Michelins to get a great ride and long tread life, but when you pay for premium, you usually get it.
Windows Sonic is actually pretty good and free. I’d say most people don’t even equip that.
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Even with headphones the audio dropped on me yesterday and my headphones typically catch everything.
I always play with headphones and more than a few times a guy walk up on me and chunks me and I’m thinking I didn’t hear a bloody thing. My thought was maybe he wasn’t running but just walking?