Fortnite is finally getting better spatial audio

One of the reasons I couldn’t get into Fortnite was the sound. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has an excellent and accurate sound model, and that made it difficult to move to another game that doesn’t. In Fortnite, it was difficult to tell where attacks were coming from. That is changing in the battle royale shooter, because developer Epic Games is introducing a new option called “3D Headphones” that gives Fortnite spatial audio.

To activate this mode, you’ll just need to toggle “3D Headphones” in the audio settings. But don’t worry, you won’t need any special hardware to take advantage of that. This just processes audio to create the illusion of space and direction for standard, stereo headphones. The 3D audio is not compatible with the “visualize sound effects” accessibility option, though.