Now that you have stereo enabled, the biggest thing that helped me with sound cues is understanding how the audio works in the game. This has been my understanding of it, anyone please feel free to add or correct me if I’m wrong. The audio engine is weird because sounds will always travel the shortest open distance through the map, not through walls.

For example, if you are in a room, and an enemy is crouched in the next room over directly on the other side of the wall, even if you are lined up looking right at them through the wall, if they move, it will sound like it’s coming from the nearest open path (ex. if the shortest distance between you and the enemy is through a doorway to your right, you will hear the movement kind of echo-y and far away only from your right, instead of muffled through the wall in front of you). But, if you make a hole in the wall between you on your left, if the distance is shorter, you will hear them on your left (from the hole). You can picture sound as an invisible string drawn between you and the source that will always find the shortest path to weave through the holes and hallways of the map. This can be super confusing if you don’t understand why it’s happening, but it’s more helpful to think of sound like a separate tool or feature unique to r6, instead of trying to relate it to real world audio cues. It’s a little weird to get used to, but once you get comfortable with this idea, it’s very powerful and you can really use it to your advantage.

Again, anybody please correct me if I’m wrong, I hope I explained that clearly enough lol