There is no doubt that in many games there are some issues with the audio, the engines sound different, gunfire is not quite right and so on, but in PUBG these issues do not exist, the developers have done a great job here and yet there is a sound that is apparently getting the gamers down, the sound of footsteps.

Luckily, for us, all the developers have been working on this and the finished audio is much better, as you will hear in the video above. So from now on the footsteps of your enemies will be as crisp as the gunshot that they take you down with, how reassuring for us now.

Just in case you are not sure what we are talking about here, here are the footstep issues:

• Poor quality footstep sounds on some materials such as soil, sand, and grass.
• Unnatural sound changes over distances.
• Large acoustic differences between shoes and barefoot. In particular, when an enemy is barefoot, it makes much less noise from certain distances compared to when they are wearing shoes, making it difficult to pinpoint enemies. While this certainly makes sense realistically, it’s not ideal for the sake of PUBG gameplay.

For more the full story on how the PUBG developers addressed the important issue of making footsteps actually sound like real footsteps, head on over to the developer letter page on the PUBG website here.

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