I’ve been noticing this more and more since I came back to the game, and now it’s just upsetting.
When, for example, I fight Ashe literally around the corner and I hear no footsteps, and then she’s coming at me tiptoeing and making no sound. 
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The only footsteps I ever hear are my own. I just though Mercy buys heels at the same shop as Bayonetta.
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I was able to hear footsteps pretty much across the map before. Now it’s very annoying to not hear anything even if no one is crouching.
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You’re lucky or I’m deaf, maybe both.
But in seriousness I haven’t been able to hear a Hog on the other side of a thin wall since like 2017-2018.
I know I could before, but now? Nah, mate illegal.
After 10 years of racing dirtbikes and playing guitars and going to concerts. Yeah I miss a few sound ques… especially if they are higher frequency like the Sombra hack noise. It always seems like my character drowns out most other sounds though.
I can hear the louder ones such as Reinhardt, Roadhog, and D.Va but some are next to silent as of late.
Sound cues have been kinda broken since about 2018. Footsteps are a victim of that.
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I didn’t have this problem before, that’s why I was very confused.
i have this issue, particularly with Reaper. Nobody else that i can recall. literally no sounds other than shotgun and voicelines
With good headphones I used to be able to tell where pretty much everyone was without seeing them, but that all got broken like 18 months ago and has never been properly fixed. I’ve had Reapers walk right up to touching distance of me when scoped without me hearing them.
I’ve been having the same problems. like, when we’re not fighting I can hear a reaper in the room to my left, but as soon as the shooting starts, footsteps are gone.
Im hoping everyone here understands that this is the game’s fault, and not a specific hero’s fault 
I think we were just choosing Reaper cus he has such noisy footsteps when they work? I can say I also don’t hear anyone else’s footsteps during battle, it’s just that last night one managed to tp in silently and murder my entire team, so he’s on the brain.
Oh yea I know, Its just I’ve gotten into arguments with people who use this sound issue to claim a hero is overpowered so.
Same, had a Reinhardt sneak up on my team a while back. Watched replay and he wasn’t even crouching.
What even? Wow, I’m sorry. That’s just stupid
People do this with Doomfist all the time.
But generally speaking, the sound priority in OW is awful. YOu can hear Sombra firing her gun from across the map, but you can’t hear a pharah flying above your team or a reaper teleport through the choke.
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There is still the bug with being able to hear a Sigma use his Kinetic Grasp from across the map too.
When are they going to fix this? It’s quite game breaking imo
In all seriousness, i kinda doubt the devs are even aware of this bug, because it seems like a thing bad players would blame when they die to something because they weren’t paying attention.
Like with Sombra’s old(?) translocator bug, where you could teleport but there was still a hitbox left behind so you’d die after you teleported.