[MEGATHREAD] Can You Hear the Audio Issues? I Bet You Can! 🔇

[FledgeSRondo-1441]

Thanks a lot for catching and posting these, Muf, really helps to keep this issue bumped. I’ve added these to the (growing) master list of such threads in my second post and contacted the authors of those threads to share their experiences or videos here if possible. Hopefully the continued push against this issue will make it a higher priority for the devs.

[Zorek104-1571]

We cant forget that a lot of times you cant hear pharah flying above you head.

You only hear her when she is shooting the rockets.

Same with reaper, you only hear him when he shoot

[Tonyztank-1810]

When i’m in a game I can hear all of the other game sound effects fine but the voice chat doesn’t register. I have tested my mic and looked at my settings but the issue still persists. If I can’t communicate with my team then i’m going to end up losing a lot of games

[Muf-21147]

Audio Directional Bug?

So, I don’t believe this is my headset as it works fine just about in any other game. However, lately in my OW matches I’ve noticed I’ve been missing many sound cues if I whip my mouse around while playing, more specifically if I’m just looking anywhere else other than where the sound is coming from, it kinda just goes dead silent. From my few tests, its mostly when my back is turned to the sound, ult sounds like D.va, Rein, and Sym, Reaper, anything loudly announced go unnoticed unless I’m loo…

[Omnislasher-1284]

I found a fix for my sound issues. Turning OFF both LIMIT CLIENT SEND RATE and LIMIT SERVER SEND RATE.

[Muf-21147]

In game sound bug

when someone attacking from behind or shooting at you the sound of the attack goes off cant hear the enemy and even when enemy ult behind you the sound becomes so low pitch cant hear their ult or their ult is almost about to finish all this big bug issue happen after the new patch please fix this big bug issue blizzard thanks.

[Muf-21147]

No sound when ults are activated

I’ve noticed lately that sometimes ultimate abilities will be activated but no voice line will be announced. I’ve had this happen with a friendly Roadhog that I ice walled because I didn’t hear his ultimate, and just now an enemy Soldier 76 that ulted and killed me because I ran out into the open since I never heard his ultimate line.

[Malmström-11978]

Hm. I guess I’m relieved to know it’s not just me, but disappointed to know it’s a prevalent issue.

Thanks for linking my post, Muf.

[Light-14485]

same i have sound issue too cant hear enemy footsteps or their ultimate’s lots of sound missing from close range attacks and so on its a big issue blizzard need to fix it asp…

[Muf-21147]

No audio heard for enemy ultimates

This is not a consistent issue but it happens frequently enough to me and i’m out of ideas. I’ve recorded footage where it clearly is not being picked up. How can i fix this? This is causing me huge problems in competitive.

[Asudem-1649]

As of the latest patch, I am still experiencing the voice line audio issues.

[Seven-2656]

Also having weird sound bugs and distortions in OW

[ClicknMiss-2400]

Im not having just footsteps problem etc, Im having the whole damn games sound vanishing. It vanishes, everything apart from people talking in voice, and then it appears again.
Hell, it also affects my entire pcs sound system. Discord I cant hear people talking, but they hear me, and I cant hear music from spotify either when OW cuts off its sound.

I mean, this is such a massive bug that I cant even play the game anymore. I love this game, and its frustrates me like crazy. PLEASE fix this blizzard. Never had problems with your game before, but now this.

[Xeiom-2558]

In the latest patch I am still having some ultimate callouts entirely missing from audio despite on several occasions me looking directly at the person as they use the ultimate.

Run the scan and repair on my game too many times now, this has to be an internal issue in the game

[Asudem-1649]

Are thread bumps allowed? Because I have now turned volume to all SFX to 0, which I guess does not disable the SFX in the internal sound engine’s queue because I still can not hear my voice lines as I use them… very annoying. I would like a visual cooldown notification if voice lines DO in fact have a shadowban cooldown…

[starkonly-3867]

Its sad that I have issue in sound effect as well.

My version is missing all sweet head shot “ding” sound.
Also, the sound when a point is captured. Missing these sound feel so weird when playing the game

[Sparks-12374]

I also get missing audio effects. Specifically headshot sounds when playing as widowmaker, ultimate voice lines, footsteps and the sounds for damage being taken

[Varelia-1479]

I get missing soundeffects for footsteps, widow mines, sym turrets, flash-bangs… the list goes on. It’s not consistent either so it’s definitely not something on my end.

[cr0wburn-2162]

I get missing soundeffects for footsteps, widow mines, sym turrets, flash-bangs… the list goes on. It’s not consistent either so it’s definitely not something on my end.

I have the PC version of the game, and have the exact same problems.
I rely on sound to play well.

I’m good with computers and tried everything i could think of. I can asure you, it is not my pc. It is the game.

[Corvin-21921]

Same thing here. I can’t hear hitmarker sounds. (PC)