Why do some killers pretend that sounds are gone?

They aren't gone, but they are definitely bugged to some extend. Dying survivors making no sounds, no footsteps sounds during a chase and Stridor not affecting Iron Will are the most common ones I see.

Yes, I do play on PC. Havent touched DBD on console for months. SO I cannot tell if its a plattform specific problem. Might be though.

Maybe he is a streamer and does not want to reveal his perks for stream snipers? Maybe he uses Noed or Blood Warden etc. which basically are counterable by survivors if they know his perks.

I dont think you have to justify yourself for your decision to hide your perks.

Youre welcome

I don't play spirit too often, but I played a game of spirit yesterday with Stridor on. Sounds are definitely bugged. I don't know how often it happens, but it was an awful experience.

Survivor right next to me? No foot steps or grunts of pain. Already way past me? Sounds as if they are super close to I come out of her power and swing at nothingness.

These sounds bugs keep coming back. So no, no one is "pretending" sounds are gone/bugged. They just are.

When you are talking about bugs or overall balance, you can't hide your perks as there are perks that effect bugs/balance.

Stridor is one example in this case. If he is running Stridor then it effects his claim of sounds being fine. I even think he does have Stridor from how loud that Survivor was compared to my personal gameplay. It simply makes him look fishy and like he has something to hide.

He clearly has something to hide anyway from needlessly blocking off his perks and add-ons. There should be zero reasons to do that. Even if he was a streamer, hell I don't even think the OP was the one playing the game to start with!

Look at his past videos. Half of them are zoomed in and/or have massive overscanning. No one records their gameplay like that. The first few videos was normal but once he started to cover his build the vast majority of the videos became horrible quality with overscans as if he used a phone or camera to record his monitor.

This topic smells of fish, the YT channel looks of content theft, and the OP himself feels like he has an agenda. This is one of those cases where the OP needs to defend himself. He made a claim and needs to defend it against others calling him out. He got himself into this with using poorly edited videos as "proof".

I take what I said about Stridor back and admit I was wrong about that. Doesn't change how the original video and channel looks rather odd in being edited in both blocking builds and having overscan. If you care about uploading clips and even go through the effort of editing them for one reason or another, then why don't you bother to care about how they look or to the point of crap?

It doesn't add up to me. You having a source doesn't change my opinions of the content possibly not being yours as you still need an unedited copy in order to edit.

Plus, this can also be proof towards sounds being bugged. You can't hear the Survivor till after you get line of sight. Sound is suppose to go through walls with each wall and overall distance making the sounds harder to hear.

Hearing breathing through a wall is unlikely, but on the other side of a rock/tree? And moments later as the Killer walks away ALL sounds (pain grunts and self caring) are lost going from 90-80% to 0% the moment you go past another tree not a couple meters away.

In the very video you posted showing how sounds aren't bugged. Survivors don't make any sounds at all once you are a few steps away from them in what should have been half cover at best.

I can confirm sounds are also funky on ps4. I don't use stridor that much so i can't say anything about it but everything else mentioned happens on console as well.

No one even said Sounds were "gone". Not from any posts I've seen. Sounds are bugged. No one is pretending. This causes sounds to be inconsistent and occasionally footsteps, grunts, moans, completed gens etc. will not be audible.

Sounds being inconsistent is a HUGE issue that needs to be addressed.

I'm on PS4 btw and notice it as Survivor and Killer.

Even though we're only pretending this is happening you have to admit we coordinated it well, all agreeing on specific made-up audio problems to complain about. But you have single-handedly cracked our little conspiracy. Bravo

Headphone quality factors in as well. I upgraded during the holidays and was blown away by how much I can hear now. I never knew you can hear uninjured locker breathing from 8 meters away.

@Yamaoka man people love giving you a hard time.

I'm not saying they're pretending, but i personally don't suffer from this.

Or i do without noticing (stealthy Survs 'n' stuff), but at the very least, i have no problems so far with hearing in which direction the Survivor is running after dropping a Pallet.

And i can still hear No Mither users' breathing without Stridor thanks to these headphones.

That's not me saying there's no problems though, the post made it clear some people have them.

And sound is way too important to ignore, it can mean the difference between successful & unsuccessful chases.

Yeah I just pretend that sometimes downed survivors have no sound. I Just like to search them on the ground after I downed them, although I can hear them. I like to stand right next to them like a moron instead of picking them up.