Since season 8 there has been some serious and unacceptable bugs in this game in general, but especially the audio.
For starters, since the season 8/hog2.0 patch, the multi-kill announcer (Athena) that would normally say “Double Kill!” “Tripple Kill!” etc has just straight up stopped working. All multi-kill announcements have just straight up broken, as have the text notifications at the top of the screen. The enter multi-kill notification system has just broken.
Next, emotes. There is an intermittent bug where some emote, particularly the “Thank You” emote, as well as “Hello”, “Understood” and a couple of others have failed to be sent. I hear the “ping” that lets me know an comm button has been pressed, but the “Thank You” doesn’t show up in chat and the character/hero doesn’t say the voice line.
Finally, the headshot “ping” sound that lets you know you are dealing critical damage will intermittently stop working.
It’s not me because I am reading on here others are having similar issues. Please fix this crap, Blizzard!