disembodied footsteps

**frank_** · 13-02-2010 08:42 AM

YouTube - footsteps

this has been happening for months. it isn't a client-side problem, other people hear them

is this a bug, a rogue plugin or do we have gremlins in our server?

**Jam0864** · 13-02-2010 09:22 AM

Fuck that's weird.

**totalfrenzy** · 13-02-2010 09:32 AM

Has happened to me recently too

**Brotherz** · 13-02-2010 09:52 AM

Me to. Its gay as aids when it happens in wars.

Me: *looks towards tunnel in B*
Enemy: *rushes B door and snaps me*
Team member: WTF?!?!??!!?
Me: Heard him tunnels.
Team member: Yeah me to.
^ Happens almost every single war on Dust2. lol
Fairly good play script to imo.

**gex** · 13-02-2010 10:37 AM

have had this once before with old sound card when it was set to 7.1 instead of 2/headphones

**radCAT** · 13-02-2010 03:08 PM

i am not detecting anything wrong.

**nuk3** · 13-02-2010 03:38 PM

The footsteps are coming from short, and there is a red dot on the radar there (that looks like an enemy).

Please elaborate...

**frank_** · 13-02-2010 04:33 PM

the footsteps are coming from site, that dot in short is a fading cross from the T killed

**nuk3** · 13-02-2010 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by frank_

the footsteps are coming from site, that dot in short is a fading cross from the T killed

In that case, those footsteps do kinda sound like the player jumping down again. Just replayed... if that makes sense.

**frank_** · 13-02-2010 04:48 PM

Originally Posted by nuk3

In that case, those footsteps do kinda sound like the player jumping down again. Just replayed... if that makes sense.

that is quite possibly what is happening, they seem to be where a player was earlier but with a seemingly random delay

**DarKcS** · 13-02-2010 04:49 PM

Sounded like delayed footsteps. So ninjaaa.
PS did you record that in headphone mode or 2.1 speakers? And if you're using vista/win7 without dsound emulation you'll lose sound positioning.

**ryaan** · 13-02-2010 04:51 PM

I get his all the time.

**fatz_mp3s** · 13-02-2010 04:58 PM

it's source, it happens all the time noob

**bnzai** · 13-02-2010 05:06 PM

never had this problem in 1.6 l0l

**steamboaT** · 13-02-2010 05:50 PM

Originally Posted by LighT!

Sounded like delayed footsteps. So ninjaaa.
PS did you record that in headphone mode or 2.1 speakers? And if you're using vista/win7 without dsound emulation you'll lose sound positioning.

Hey light where do I go to check if I am or am not using dsound emulation.

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I use to get it when I was capped or had random ping jumps. But not that red dot on radar, that's very odd.

Probably just delay for the footsteps but the red dot is a mystery.

**KaRath** · 13-02-2010 07:18 PM

I hate footsteps out of nowhere especially when the entire enemy team is down

**pandan** · 13-02-2010 07:56 PM

I got this the other day. Was holding shag on train, was 100% convinced the guy was t-con, then he just popped out of SL and dropped me >_>_> 1v1 sigh

The only other people I know that have experienced have been using win7 - but other win7 users don't have it. It must be a tickbox somewhere, or possible a soundcard thing. My creative one works beautiful, but the onboard realtek is the one where this happens.