Battlefield 6 · PC, PS5, Xbox · version Season 5 (Update 2.1.1.0)Game audio cuts out until the game is restarted
ConfirmedReported as unpatchedUpdated
Partway through a match, all game sound can cut out and stay silent until the game is restarted. Players lose footsteps and gunfire cues, which is a big disadvantage in fights. A hotfix went out on October 15, but some players, including on Xbox, say it still happens.
Lifecycle
Confirmed · stage 2 of 5
16days open
Since first report
- Reported (reached)
- Confirmed (reached)— · now
- Acknowledged (not yet)next
- Partial (not yet)—
- Patched (not yet)—
- Game
- Battlefield 6
- Platform
- PC, PS5, Xbox
- Affected version
- Season 5 (Update 2.1.1.0)
- Kind
- Bug
- Confirmation
- Confirmed
- Patch status
- Reported as unpatched
- First reported
- Last updated
- Latest fix or workaround
- Fix, : Audio hotfix deployed to resolve an issue that could cause audio to cut out until the game is restarted. Source
How we label issues
Kind
- Exploit: Repeatable and clearly advantageous to the player using it; essentially cheating.
- Bug: Everything else: crashes, launch errors, broken features, visual or audio faults.
Confirmation
- Confirmed: A developer or official account acknowledged it, an official known-issues board lists it, it appears in official patch notes, or 100+ corroborating posts on X were actually counted.
- Unconfirmed: None of the above yet. Press articles are reports and never confirm an issue on their own.
Patch status
- Unpatched: Known and open; no fix has been claimed.
- Reported as unpatched: Players credibly report it persisting, including after a fix claim that never appeared in patch notes.
- Partially patched: Official patch notes list a fix, but credible later reports say it still happens, or the notes only cover part of it.
- Reported as patched: A developer, official account or player says it is fixed, but no official patch notes list it.
- Patched: Official patch notes (a Steam news post or the publisher's patch notes page) list the fix, and nothing credible says it still happens.
Active means still affecting players: Unpatched, Reported as unpatched or Partially patched. Patched and Reported as patched issues are closed.
Estimated impact runs from 0.1 to 9.9 with one decimal. xploitr sets it from the rubric below. Factors: advantage to other players, reach, play blocked or progress lost, frequency, and whether a reliable workaround exists. Patched issues keep their historical impact.
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Impact bands
- 0.1–2.9 Low: Cosmetic, audio, text and UI glitches with no effect on play.
- 3.0–4.9 Moderate: Narrow gameplay bugs or small exploits, rare or with a workaround.
- 5.0–6.9 Elevated: Bugs most players in a mode notice: hit registration, desync, balance-breaking damage.
- 7.0–8.4 High: Widely abused competitive or economy exploits; crashes many players hit.
- 8.5–9.9 Severe: Launch blockers, widespread progress or item loss, exploits that break the game for everyone.
Each issue has a dated timeline of updates (report, acknowledgement, announcement, fix, workaround). Update summaries are our own words; quotes and excerpts are the source's words, or our English translation when marked.
Updates · 7
- Report
On Area 51, game sound cut out completely and did not come back until the game was restarted.
@BobbySteinmetzz on X ·
@BobbySteinmetzz on X · · View post
- Report
Says they went deaf in the middle of a game.
@Toucan1024254 on X ·
@Toucan1024254 on X · · View post
- Fix
Audio hotfix deployed to resolve an issue that could cause audio to cut out until the game is restarted.
@BattlefieldComm on X ·
@BattlefieldComm on X · · View post
- Report
After the fix, says the sound bug is still there on Xbox: their sound died after two hours of play.
@IITheOneandOnl1 on X ·
@IITheOneandOnl1 on X · · View post
- Report
Oct 19: game sound goes completely mute on Xbox while the console's own sounds still work.
Community report on reddit ·
“Anyone else just have their sound go completely mute? My xbox UI is making noise fine and even quickly loading up YT with a vid was fine for a test.”
Community report on reddit · Open source - Report
Xbox Series X: game sound disappeared mid-match on Area 51 twice in ten minutes; had to relaunch to get sound back. Posted after the Oct 22 hotfix.
@Blblblblblblbla on X ·
@Blblblblblblbla on X · · View post
- Report
Asks whether the hotfix fixes audio dropping out every other game.
@Koariv on X ·
@Koariv on X · · View post
Sources · 71 Official6 Community@BattlefieldCommOfficial+ 6 similar community reportsHide
“[BFComms] Audio Hotfix We have deployed a hotfix to resolve an issue that could cause audio to cut out until the game is restarted.”
- @BobbySteinmetzzView post
“@Battlefield @BF6Updates @BF6News already experienced a audio bug playing Area 51 where my game sound completely cut out and didn’t return unless I restarted the game just as a heads up for bug reports”
- @Toucan1024254View post
“@DANNYonPC Literally went deaf mid game this morning”
- @BlblblblblblblaView post
“@BattlefieldComm Sound of the game disapear mid game on area 51, Xbox series X user, have this 2 times in 10min. Need to launch my game again to have game sound.”
- @IITheOneandOnl1View post
“@BattlefieldComm Hey, in case you don't know, the sound bug on xbox is still there. I played 2 hours and my sound died, you said you fixed it. But it's still bugged unfortunately.”
- @KoarivView post
“@BattlefieldComm Is this to fix the crashes and audio dropping out every other game ?”
- Community report · redditOpen
“Anyone else just have their sound go completely mute? My xbox UI is making noise fine and even quickly loading up YT with a vid was fine for a test.”