Footsteps sounds missing

[WALP]

It is possible this is a texture not actually used in the game, or used in a way where no footstep sound was needed, so the material configured to the texture links to a sound that does not actually exists.

You can edit the .mat file and set another material for the texture to get sound working.

Exactly how does materials pointing towards player footstep sounds even work? I am assuming it uses the name("plastic_hard" fx) because I cant find an option for it in the materials.cfg.
I more or less extracted the footsteps.fsb and found that the sounds the game cannot find are definitely there(fx: walk_default_plastic_hard_small_room_01). From this I can find only 2 possible explanations:

1. The way in which the material points towards the sound is incorrect.

2. Because reverb (small_room fx) is not specified, the game looks for a default file without reverb, but unlike other footstep sound files plastic_hard does not have one(in other words SOMA is looking for a file named walk_default_plastic_hard_01 inside footsteps.fsb, which does not exists).

if this is the case there are 2 fixes.

• We must add default files to the .fsb, either by creating new sounds, or copying the reverb ones and renaming them. I cannot do this step since I am unable to extract the sound files from the .fsb without corrupting them. If I was capable I would then import them(and all other footstep sounds the game uses) into fmod and reexport the player_footsteps.fsb, which I can replace using a mod.
  
  The files might be encrypted though, so maybe only frictional is capable of this, given they can be bothered at all(there is a tediously large amount of footstep sounds so I understand).
  
  This would be the best fix possible though.
  
  
• Alternatively, one can set the reverb settings to something we do have sound files for, like small_room fx, and hopefully SOMA should now be able to find the file. I have no idea how to change the reverb setting though, nor how it functions.