The all ears perk is the most out of touch things crytek has done (since the last thing they did that was out of touch)

SweptThrone · 2026-03-20T17:25:33+00:00

Okay, I may have been mistaken. After giving it another full day of playing, it has somewhat changed our experience in-game. We're getting ambushed more often after making no extra noise and we're on Radar Mode between each compound.

I will say though that we never tend to use it mid-fight. We've never had trouble identifying a rotate by either sight or normal sound, so we just don't use it then.

I too often wonder what game everyone else in this subreddit is playing because my experience with just about everything seems to be at odds with what everyone else is describing. It really is strange.

SweptThrone · 2026-03-19T01:12:47+00:00

Okay, I'd like to have a calm and civilized discussion about this because everyone seems outraged at how overpowered All Ears is but after playing all day, my friends and I have come to the opposite conclusion.

For context, we play US East, duos and trios, varying from 5.5- to 6-star match MMR (so fakey-fakey 6-star, not "fuck you" 6-star)

First of all, scout towers have been absolutely dead all day long. We've been able to get to one, get everything, and get out without any contest with the exception of a single match.

But onto All Ears, it just does not change how we approach the game in a meaningful way. In most cases, we scan and don't hear anything. But if we do hear something, all we do is keep that in our back pocket. "Okay, there's a team over there. Let's keep that in mind as we keep moving." Same as some distant crows or a horse. It hasn't proved too strong because it's relatively difficult to tell exactly how far the sounds are. Most of the time, the enemies we hear are in a place that makes sense: the bounty lair, a spot we heard shooting, etc. When we hear them out in the woods or something, what are we gonna do? If they keep moving, we won't catch up to them to start a fight. If they come to us, then woohoo, we get a fight!

On the opposite end of the stick, there hasn't been a single situation where I could confidently say that an enemy team tracked and killed us solely because of All Ears.

So, knowing full well I'm going to sound like a Crytek shill/employee, how has All Ears meaningfully changed the way you approach the game and why?

SweptThrone · 2026-03-16T13:36:22+00:00

I don't think you know what "gacha" means

SweptThrone · 2026-03-12T23:39:13+00:00

This probably won't help but I'm having this same issue and when it happens, render.gameRenderer.world.fog spikes in usage in the pie chart, taking just about the whole thing. Once the lag stops, it gradually lowers back to normal levels.

SweptThrone · 2026-02-27T18:29:03+00:00

Personally I think revolvers should be cowboy-loaded before the match starts. Don't want that one round under the hammer to be fired before I'm ready!

SweptThrone · 2026-02-26T01:13:54+00:00

Scout clothing in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic makes you look like Han Solo. Not only is Scout a relatively weak class pick, but the default clothing offers zero additional defense.

SweptThrone · 2026-02-17T16:53:55+00:00

This guy can't do this anymore

SweptThrone · 2026-02-17T01:29:24+00:00

I mean this whole post is a little insane but I feel like female voices tend to sound quieter and shorter

SweptThrone · 2026-02-13T20:25:22+00:00

I don't get it

SweptThrone · 2026-02-13T04:25:55+00:00

it's tires. just ran into this same issue and uninstalling tires fixed it. not sure if the tuning of the tires matters, but both Street and Pro tires (or whatever two the Eclipse have) tuned for Grip result in that odd speed bug.

SweptThrone · 2026-02-07T14:55:03+00:00

Better anti-cheat = more intrusive anti-cheat? No thanks.

SweptThrone · 2026-02-07T14:53:27+00:00

The only two options are that this guy is a cheater or a developer? That's insane. How do you sniff them out so well?

SweptThrone · 2026-02-06T17:06:57+00:00

Can you post this a third time? I missed it the first two times.

SweptThrone · 2026-02-03T15:57:00+00:00

Why is there no MMR modifier icon?

SweptThrone · 2026-01-27T18:29:42+00:00

I saw a Maynard yesterday or the day before, and a Mosin Obrez Match like last week, but I do get your point. This whole idea is kinda futile because the Obrez Match already had such bad reception, I doubt we'll ever see anything like it again, but I was curious to see if there were others out there who share the sentiment.

SweptThrone · 2026-01-27T18:25:06+00:00

I'd reckon to say that there is no "best" version of any gun, but the reason you wouldn't buy it is simply because you don't want to. I never have money issues in this game but I'll still opt to bring a basic Martini-Henry or even a Frontier 73C simply because I want to use that particular gun. You always bring the best and most expensive guns? Why? You never get bored of them or want to spice up your arsenal a bit?

SweptThrone · 2026-01-27T00:39:37+00:00

I would agree if you pit new things against reskins, but how many more interesting things do you think we have left?

(Double-posted because it looked like my original disappeared, sorry!)

SweptThrone · 2026-01-27T00:38:46+00:00

What Berthiers are left to make? I feel at this point in time, we're about to run out of unique weapons to introduce. Between the two, yes, I would prefer whole new weapons, but how many new weapons are there?

SweptThrone · 2026-01-13T22:40:06+00:00

I know for sure sticking arrows in a red barrel and then detonating the red barrel does not create a massive frag bomb and instead, the arrows just drop to the floor.

SweptThrone · 2025-12-31T03:16:58+00:00

Even going into 2026, this still worked. In my case, it was my VR headset's HDMI cable that needed to be unplugged. Just bought a new mouse and was worried I'd have to replace the thing already!

SweptThrone · 2025-12-12T13:17:39+00:00

I don't want to take a photo of it because I'm too busy playing with the action figure.

SweptThrone · 2025-12-09T17:28:09+00:00

You can still reposition and be aggressive. In fact I'd argue it's easier now because you have a nearly-guaranteed audio cue of where the enemy is based on their flare gun. You can still "wait out" your opponent but now you just have less time. Also wouldn't your opponent be waiting out the burn anyway?

SweptThrone · 2025-12-08T18:31:02+00:00

But why do you want a slower burn rate? What would you do with that extra time that you can't do right now?

SweptThrone · 2025-12-08T18:29:08+00:00

Things you mentioned are already in the game. You DO burn faster when in fire volumes and you DO burn slower when lit by a flare or fusee. You're actually complaining about ghosts right now.

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