[PSA] Sounds enemies can hear

Posted by Steve

Tuesday, March 29, 2022 11:33 AM

A group of friends have started to play the game recently and I made this small list for them, and then I realized maybe it could help other people that are new to the game as well, so I decided to post it here.

Note: Most of these sounds are picked up from the sound hearing distance, which is that circle that forms around your minimap pointer when you run/jump.

ENEMY CAN HEAR YOU ENEMY CAN NOT HEAR YOU
Firing weapons -
Planting / Defusing Spike (*1) -
Running (NO SHIFT) Walking (+SHIFT)
Climbing / Sliding Rope (NO SHIFT) Climbing / Sliding Rope (+SHIFT)
Jumping / Landing Jumping to a higher plane (+SHIFT)
Reloading Weapon Scoping in with your Weapon (*2)
Droping Weapon/Spike (*3) Picking up Weapon/Spike
Using Abilities (*4) Swaping between Weapons/Abilities (*5)
Picking up Ultimate Orbs -
Using your Spray Using team comms (in-game team calls)
Swinging your Knife -
  • (*1) Sound happens at the START of plant/defuse. Planting/defusing progress is silent. Also there is a different sound on a slightly higher pitch when spike is half-way defused and they start defusing again.
  • (*2) Some weapons don't have scoping function and some have "alternate fire" on right click instead (Classic & Bucky).
  • (*3) If you have a weapon equipped and you pick one from the ground, you will drop your current one. Also you can drop weapons or spike silently to a teammate if you're close enough and it doesn't hit the ground.
  • (*4) Some abilities leave a remanent sound over time, like Sage's heal, Phoenix's fire or Jett floating. Some are also heard while placing them like Killjoy's nanobots. Also Ultimates emit a global "catch phrase" that let's your enemies know who used it.
  • (*5) This is also know as "pulling out" a weapon or ability.

And here are some agent specific interactions:

AGENT SPECIFICS SOUNDS Can enemy hear it?
Viper picking up her poison cloud NO
Cypher camera activation / deaactivation YES
Cypher picking up any of this abilities YES

I hope this helps anyone.

EDIT: Thank you everyone for your feeedback, reports and suggestions. ♥

References

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/tpw1no/psa_sounds_enemies_can_hear/
  • https://reddit.com/tpw1no

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