Killer's footsteps should be silent to the killer

[Demon Swords]

Its really hard to listen for survivor's footstep's when some killer's have extremely loud footsteps.

Its really annoying when I hear footsteps, think I heard a survivor, only to then realize it was my footsteps.

Considering there is a bad survivor perk that silences footsteps, the devs clearly want killers to be able to listen for footsteps, so why is it so unnecessarily hard to do.

[Queen HawlSera]

You are expected to stop moving and look at your surroundings. If you just keep walking until you find someone, you're gonna lose, a lot.

This is by design

[Demon Swords]

Originally posted by Queen HawlSera:

You are expected to stop moving and look at your surroundings. If you just keep walking until you find someone, you're gonna lose, a lot.

This is by design

Why would i need to stop moving to look around? I always look around while I traverse the map, Heck, even while In chase I'll sometimes quickly glance around especially when passing by gens or trying to spot a survivor going for an unhook or healing a slugged survivor (I've been doing it even more so recently because I've been spamming Franklin's + Attunement and the passive aura reading is insane when used correctly.)

The only real advantage to stop moving is to try to silence your footsteps to listen for survivors and most of the time that is just a big waste of time.

Though I do think killer is way too easy right now for most killers, Its ridiculous that there is a survivor perk that silences the footsteps when many killer's own footsteps are so loud its too hard to even listen for footsteps in the first place. (and any killer that stops moving to listen for footsteps is just wasting their time.)

[Leah]

Originally posted by Queen HawlSera:

You are expected to stop moving and look at your surroundings. If you just keep walking until you find someone, you're gonna lose, a lot.

This is by design

I don't think this is true at all? Killer footsteps are pretty distinct from Survivor ones, If you're standing still just to hear footsteps then I'm sorry to tell you, you're the one with the poor strategy.

The point is more that certain killers have footsteps that are a lot closer to survivor footstep sounds than others, and it's kind of an accessibility thing where you need to have sharp hearing to tell them apart when it was really just inconsistent audio design.

What is intended is the fire barrels sounding like Survivor footsteps, but that's about it.

[Little Baby Jane]

They made it extremely hard now.. so iwould say ditch the whole idea of footsteps and watch for flying crows.. they are much better indicator u can also hear them aswell .. u don't even need the spies perk if u have big monitor like 43inches u can see them fly off in distance.

[Michel Baie]

Originally posted by Little Baby Jane:

They made it extremely hard now.. so iwould say ditch the whole idea of footsteps and watch for flying crows.. they are much better indicator u can also hear them aswell .. u don't even need the spies perk if u have big monitor like 43inches u can see them fly off in distance.

Actual eyes work too. The screen size doesn't influence draw distance.

[Rank21]

'Killer's footsteps should be silent to the killer' => No, but many killers are already silent as many breathings & footsteps from survivors are silent too.
I think it is a bug and the sound occlusion doesn't help...