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Have you tried the awareness perk? Thankfully not sit-rep pro, but a buff nonetheless.

using your ears is one thing, using a headset is one thing. im sure, if you cant adapt, you are clearly a sound whore (someone who relies on they're superior sound than others ie. sitting there waiting for people to arrive and shooting the moment they appear).

I have astro A40s and yes i am pissed that footsteps are almost non existant (yet mine are loud as f*ck) but really, you were too reliant on it so you are limited as a combattant.. simple.

Wasn't it the same way in Blops?  I remember the footsteps were almost non-existent there as well.

I hope they dont..

its a perk being able to soundwhore people by itself.

AND ITS REALLY EASY TO DO:

it will only cost you 3/10 CAC points..

you will need 3th perk thingy get dead silence+awereness and you can sound whore for days even when running around..

its good the way it is.. to get something that powerfull you should need to give up stuff IMO

I really hope they buff the footsteps, especially with the new map style. There's a lot of different directions to watch and it's almost impossible to do so in a game mode like FFA without hearing footsteps and FFA is pretty much all I play. I really like everything else so far in Black Ops 2 and really want to love this game. The lack of footsteps is creating a lot of frustration for me though, I can't seem to play more than an hour without finding myself getting angry. I used to play Blops for hours on end and can honestly say it's my favorite game of all time but I really hope they fix the one problem I have with this game, cause for me it's a pretty big one.

Aftermath is a map that has a lot of environmental noise. Sound like the building is crumbling, and rocks are sliding. You cant tell if its you running or what. You can have DS on and hear yourself claiming over objects.

COD 4, MW2 & 3 gave players who don't have the accuracy skills a leg up with sitrep pro. I enjoyed playing those games with the use of sitrep pro. when I bought BO1 I was at a severe disadvantage. I sold the game when I bought BF3. The awareness perk is the same lame perk as in BO1.

Why hasn't Trayarch learned from Sledgehammer, or Infinity Ward(the best in my opinion), is beyond me. I really like the rest of the game, even with the spawn system, but not really hearing the enemy coming up on you until it's too late is a bit frustrating.

Bottom line is Dead silence and Awareness are both currently useless. Maybe If you test in a private match and crank your headphones up to an unhealthy level, you could hear something. But for most players playing at a comfortable volume level in a hectic match with gunfire and explosions going off then they are completely non existent, with or without the aformentioned perks. What's the point in having two perks that are useless?

David Vonderhaar said on Twitter 3 months ago that he was happy with BO1 footsteps after they increased the volume for Ninja pro users in a patch, but the other week on Reddit he said that he always thought footsteps were far too loud in BO1 so they're lower in the mix for BO2. If the main guy can't even make up his mind about what he thinks from one month to the next it's anyones guess what could happen. Truth is that they were perfect on cod4, waw and MW2, before they started messing with them and I never once heared anyone moan about them before BO1.

I personally think good audible footstep sounds add to the immersion of the sound scape and improves the gaming experience, and I feel removed from it when the auditory sensation of others around me isn't there, regardless of any advantage or disadvantge it may give to any player. In some gametypes like Domination, it doesn't matter very much but in FFA or SnD it's a big deal.

For me it seems very simple. In a standard hectic game with lots of ambient sounds going off....

A) Dead silence users should be audible only when within a few feet of someone (they should never be TOTALLY silent - call this volume level 1, pretty much what everyone has at the moment)

B) Standard footsteps should be audible at close range, but not at medium range (i.e in the same room - call this volume level 2)

C) Awareness users should hear Dead silence footsteps at volume level 2 and can hear non-dead silence users very clearly at close range and very faint at medium range (call this volume level 3) further than this range (e.g out of shotgun range) shouldn't be audible by anyone.

I think they're hoping that reducing footsteps makes people camp less. The truth is that campers will camp and rushers will rush. It's a mindset generally and not a reaction to game mechanics.

A final parting word to Treyarch....The removal and/or relegation of certain environmental sounds in a game reduces the immersion of the experience, whatever those sounds may be (It would be the same if enemy reloading sounds were removed, for example). Immersion directly affects replay value of a game, and therefore DLC sales.

Hopefully that's in a language you understand!

It is perfect the way it is. People with turtle beaches or any other advanced headset should not be sound horing. Mw3 and black ops 1 was so annoying because of it and I so use turtle beaches I just think its a cheap way of playing.