[2021] VALORANT Audio AMA on HRTF and the things that go bump in the game

Hey Reddit,

This is Peter Zinda, audio director, joined by Nichole Strano, associate producer on content support, and others, here to chat about our new HRTF option and audio in general. If you heard it, we had something to do with it!

We’ll answer as much about audio as we can. We’ll be here from now until 5pm Pacific Time, and we will edit this post to say when we’re signing off.

This is us for today:

Peter Zinda, Audio Director - /u/PulsarZealot

Nichole Strano, Associate Producer, Content Support - /u/RiotObby

Isaac Kikawa, Sound Designer - /u/riotkaratemonkey

Curtis Churn, Sound Designer - /u/RiotC3Sound

Mario Lavin, Sound Designer - /u/invisibleartforms (no cool flair, but he’s one of ours)

(This isn’t our entire team, just the ones here to chat)

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Originally posted by Ghiado

Related to HRTF: I’ve noticed a couple of times while spectating, that I’ve heard loud footsteps that the person I’m spectating does not hear.

Have you heard any other reports like this?

An example: While spectating a player on Icebox: he was on A site, atop attacker-side’s “Belt” enemy Brimstone was on defenders side catwalk, but while spectating I could hear noises like brimstone moving on metal surface very near to my ally (clearly shouldn’t be the case). After the round, I asked if my teammate heard these noises, and he said no.

Hi, engineer here. We haven't heard similar reports of this bug yet, so thanks for bringing it up! Always feel free to poke us about what seems like bugs :)

We'll look into this issue. If you're able to provide us with any videos or any consistent way to trigger this, that would be super appreciated, so we can figure out what's causing this and track it down.

Footsteps should be sent by the server, and should be the same for everyone. I'd treat this as a big competitive integrity issue that we need to fix if it's inconsistent for players.

Also, did this start this most recent patch with HRTF, or did this happen before? Any additional info you can think of would be great!

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