you can hear some ghost noise still after hunters, seekers and tanks have disappeared (there may well be more but I don’t think i have encountered them).
PS this is still happening after the most recent patch (don’t know if it was patched though) for some streamers that I have seen play, and I have also seen them stumble across ghost light too.
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Dang, wish this happened to me. I love the machine noises!
One way to recreate this (not 100% of times) is to kill bunch of machines, loot them, fast travel away, fast travel back and make your way to the battle spot.
Sometimes, some machine bodies may remain and some machine SFX sounds are playing in the area as well, like ghosts of fallen machines.
Hearing them is interesting and it may give an eerie feeling.
Hmm. I’ll try it tomo!
Description: I’ve had something similar happen to me, however it’s only tanks, and only noises, and I was solo. They don’t detect you or make noises of moving around. This isn’t the only time I’ve heard it, but this is the first time it’s suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
I had headphones on so I could hear it better then what the video shows. But the sound of the tank running (what sounds like pressurized air) just starts suddenly playing from right beside the destroyed relay.
Steps To Reproduce: Unknown.
Images / Videos:
Host or Client: Host
Players in your game: 1
Xbox model and game version: Xbox one. Version: November 5 update, but has happened before it.
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Hey there, one bug I noticed when playing with friends. It’s an audio bug. My friends and I can hear the sounds that a tank/harvester makes but there was nothing at that spot. The sound we heard is the beeping, groaning and the sound of a fan whirring? Just for clarification the “groaning” sounds like a weird whale call. Also we get the occasional “target is here” but the market is above nothing
I am on the ps4
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This is sadly still issue I play on PS5 and it’s still happening now , both sessions in fruitless gnome hunt in Haga !
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Firstly hope this is posted on correct thread if not sorry ! Ghost machine noises so bad today in mountain region, even relay beacons, ticks seems to be making tank noises after kill, I understand this is an old bug but is seems to have worsened and makes tracking machines harder …I play on PS5 which is much better game experience apart from this , anyhow hoping for a final fix 
Whenever I kill a lot of enemies, it sometimes happens that I can hear the thumping and howling noises a tank makes, although no (living) enemy is around at the time. It happened to me twice and to my friend once. Only one of the two players can hear this.
Either dead Seekers or destroyed Relais Antennas make this sound, and it is extremely creepy, cause you await the appearance of a tank, but no tank will come.
I can’t post an image as there is only sound to be heard, and I don’t have an audio recording tool.
I play the game via internet connection with my friend hosting the game. We are two players in total, and we play on PC.
It happened to me first, near a church.
Here are a few, but pretty much recognizable data about the church.
These details (with the help of a map) let me to Alby Church, which fits the description.
The town should be Hagat then.
In front of the church was a Relais Antenna as well as some Seekers, Hunters and Runners.
After my friend and I were done with them, I started hearing the sounds of a Tank howling and trampling, but no Tank would show up.
The nearer I moved to the destroyed Relais Antenna (I think there was a destroyed Seeker nearby as well), the sounds got much much louder. I was the only one who was able to hear this, as my friend was quite confused and couldn’t hear those sounds.
The next time it happened it was in the middle of an open field, everything near was a single, destroyed Seeker, and this time the Seeker was clearly emitting the sounds. Again my friend couldn’t hear what was going on.
The next time it switched though. We had (again) destroyed a bunch of enemies, this time containing no Relais Antenna, but a few Seekers. The only person to hear it this time was my friend, and it chilled him to the bones.
I don’t know exactly, if Seekers are the reason for this bug, but it is purely annoying and it can’t be disabled. The sound intervals seem to be the ones of a normal Tank.
Please take a look at this.
Your’s cincerely,
Jonas Bauch
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There are plenty of gameplay recording programs out there. Personally, i’m using OBS Studio.
Hmm… yes, I noticed that, too. This sound phenomenon sadly seems to happen more frequently again…
Playing on PC
While i’ve heard these astral projected sounds essentially since day 1, i still find amusing hearing them. 
Mainly because then i can enjoy and listen the sound itself, without being occupied with something else, e.g staying alive.
I have tank noises happening too, whenever do a fight near the resistance hotel, I will start to hear not one, but TWO tanks stomping around. it’s usually near the cargo truck in the back on the slope and when I walk toward the sound I can get to the point where it seems that I’m right on top of it, which leads me to believe that the tanks are underground which is sad because they’re apoc and I want to get their loot.
This bug is very common, sadly there not there , this happens all over the map for me since day one!
I’ve had a similar experience, where I just encounter a pair of floating fires from Seeker engines
I thought this would’ve been fixed by now…
But it was definitely a shock grinding in the farmlands when I passed by a farmstead that hadn’t been burnt to the ground and I heard disembodied Tank noises, I actually jumped ngl because I wasn’t expecting it