Hearing Survivor's Breathing
I was wondering how some really good killers can detect when survivors are hiding nearby simply by hearing them breathing? I use a HyperX cloud core headset and was wondering if maybe I need a better headset or if maybe my hearing just isn't good enough.
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I use a bose quiet comfort 35 and can hear breathing pretty well, as well as if they are rustling nearby grass or doing doing totems, etc. But I am only listening that hard if I am playing spirit, other killers I just use my computer speakers.
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Mainly just by being alert all the time.
You get used to the music and sounds in this game that anything that sounds out of place will immediately be suspicious.
Like hearing grass when I'm not walking on grass, or hearing a sudden gasp of air.
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It's given away a few survivors for me. Really though unless it's Bill you probably aren't going to hear it.
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I wish there was a perk to make it louder it but didn't make injured breathing louder, I'd run it all day :3
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Not going to lie, most of the time you cannot because of the sound issues that have been in the game for about six months. Breathing and footsteps are almost impossible to hear: at best you will detect a bush rustling or moans of pain. Why is this? Who knows, it used to be the norm for killers to hear survivors making too much noise nearby, now anything other than sprinting 2 metres away from the killer is borderline silent.
Also, it's not so much about your headset as your sound card: potentially crystal clear sound doesn't matter when your pc cannot reach that potential.
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Honestly sometimes you'll just hear a "huhhh" like a breath. It's just something you pick up on if you know what survivors' breathing sounds like. Sometimes I get confused and mistake it for my own killer sounds though.
It also helps to pay attention to crows. If you see one taking off or landing in a spot you didn't go around, you know they're around and you know especially then to listen in around you.
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Doctor and freddy breathing does that to me.
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Some survivors are quieter than others, but it isn't difficult to detect a constipated Jeff hiding in a corner.
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I can hear them fine. However, any of you guys hear the killer breathing sound like a survivor sometimes? I swear sometimes when I play Trapper it feels like he breaths like David.
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My mains are Spirit and Plague and I have a pretty good idea of their breathing by now. Spirit has an ambient sound she makes but her actual breathing is very similar to a female survivor breathing. You only her it from her POV though because she is so loud from the survivor’s POV. Plague (as you should know because I know you played her quite a bit) has longer shaky breathing that can be mistaken for a survivors breathing. It’s not as easily distinguishable as a killer like Myers.
Sometimes when I hear a little exhale of air I look around me thinking that it is a Claudette or Feng nearby me in a bush but it was just Spirit/Plague breathing so I know what you mean. It can definitely throw you off especially against immersed survivors.
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I play PS4 with no headset and just my TV speakers. While some maps have too much ambient noise I can hear normal breathing relatively accurate with just this basic setup.
I can imagine its far more consistent with a nice pair of headsets but it does come down to being able to separate the different sounds in your head to detect the breathing.
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I get the same thing as Legion...lol...I hear some heavy breathing and start looking for a survivor until I realize it's just my own panting...
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