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To come across footsteps in Fortnite Chapter 3 Flavour i, you need to switch the "Visualize Audio Furnishings" option on in settings. To do this, bring up the sidebar, then select the icon that looks similar a menu overlapping a cog. Select settings from the menu, then go to the Sound tab, which is labelled with a speaker icon. Under the Sound heading on the Audio tab, set "Visualize Audio Effects" to on.

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When the "Visualize Sound Effects" selection is on, and so you'll see a radial display on your in-game HUD that indicates what direction a sound is coming from and what kind of audio it is. Audio categories include footsteps, gunfire, vehicle engines, and chests. One thing this feature can't tell y'all though is how close or distant a sound is. Generally speaking though, if it's showing footsteps, then they're coming from very nearby.

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The "Visualize Audio Effects" brandish is very useful in helping determine where enemy players are, especially if y'all're not using headphones, or surround-sound, or if your hearing is impaired for any reason. And even if you lot are using surround-audio and have perfect hearing, it tin even so be useful to have some actress visual data to assist pinpoint where sounds are coming from. Information technology's likewise actually useful that the sounds are displayed in the center of the screen, unlike the sound indicators on the compass, which tin exist easy to miss.