In Part 6 of my Horror Escape Game series in Unreal Engine 5, I make the ghost AI a bit more smarter by letting it hear the player. I start by adding footstep sounds in my character blueprint, then I connect those footsteps to AI hearing using a Pawn Noise Emitter component and the Make Noise node. One big issue here is sound spamming when you hold movement keys, so I fix it with a simple timer setup (0.35 seconds) and a couple of clean conditions—only play footsteps when the timer isn’t valid and when the character is not falling. After that, I hook the ghost’s Pawn Sensing “On Hear Noise” event to switch the AI into the chasing task, just like the “On See Pawn” logic. But I also show an important glitch: the ghost can hear you through floors, which feels like cheating in a horror game. To solve it, I add a “Can Sense Player” line trace function that only allows chasing if there’s a direct hit to the player (using my character interface), and I also set the character mesh visibility collision to Block so the trace actually hits. Finally, I add scary audio: a tension loop for chasing (fade out when chase ends) and a jump-scare sound for attacks, so the whole experience feels 10 times more scary.