Unsuppressed Ballistic weapons have broken audio

General Issues and Bug Reporting
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Summary

All unsuppressed ballistic weapons have broken audio when heard by other players

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What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Devices

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Have another player join your session (same team or enemy)

  2. The other player must equip any of the following weapons:

    1. Ballistic Ranger Pistol
    2. Ballistic Hand Cannon
    3. Ballistic Machine Pistol
    4. Ballistic Frenzy Auto Shotgun
    5. Ballistic Hammer Pump Shotgun
    6. Ballistic Hyper SMG
    7. Ballistic Drum Gun
    8. Ballistic Reaper Sniper Rifle
    9. Ballistic Nemesis AR
    10. Ballistic Enforcer AR
    11. Ballistic Burst AR

  3. The other player should fire their weapon

Expected Result

The local player should hear the sound of the weapon firing

Observed Result

The local player hears broken, muffled audio

Platform(s)

Tested on PC, Nintendo Switch 2
Reported on all platforms

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Additional Notes

Issue persists with and without first person camera enabled
Only seems to affect unsuppressed weapons
Can still hear bullet impact noise

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It also happens that the recharge sound is not heard

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FORT-1113860 has been added to our ‘To Do’ list. Someone’s been assigned this task.

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Please fix this issue. It sounds like the audio becomes muffled, background noise gets amplified and becomes louder than everything else, and important sounds (shots from the ballistic weapons) are almost completely muted.

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Any updates? Its been 2 months and this is a basic functionality for all First Person Experiences. I have two projects I want to work on and both would be in First Person but I can’t rely on it anymore if this isnt fixed after two months!!! Who wants to put weeks of effort for something basic to break like this?

Also as a ballistic player since its inception this is just another kick to the groin. The ballistic community has been super loyal and no matter how hard we try to keep the ballistic flame alive, epic does whatever it can to make us feel bad and unwanted. Please treat us better.

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