Lack of footsteps

[{Core}Steven]

I have searched the forums regarding this issue, and found a thread where a forum user gave some advice on how to resolve this potential bug, however I haven't found anything formally indicating that the problem does exist.

I cannot heard other players footsteps (I can hear my own though).

The suggestion was to increase the sound channels to 128 and set sound quality to high, which I have tried, but still no footsteps.

If possible, could anyone from the Dev team acknowledge if this is a known issue?
Is this is a widespread problem as well (the reason I ask is it seems very easy to sneak up on enemies and blunge my bayo into them lol - so it seems I am not the only one to have experienced this.)

Thanks in advance.