At the very least they need to hire a new QA department...

Seriously though, how did a system as buggy as the new one get through any testing at all?

I have to agree the new bugs introduced or reintroduced was... well expected and a big downer for happening. However good job on live streaming an update this large with the new noises and slight change in handeling overall.

Ever recorded your own voice and listened to it? Sounds nothing like you right? That's because you are closer to the sorce than people listening to you speak, you sound different to other people because they are listening from a different perspective.
Same thing applies to the weapon sounds.

No.

You hear your own voice differently because you have sound conduction through your head which alters it from pure air conduction for everyone else. It has nothing to do with distance.

Stole this from my bullet list.

• Sometimes Athena lags on her accouterments during combat.

My hope is the update fires majority of this list.

Skirmish sounds amazing!!! The explosions of the mcc missels add an awesome feel to the war one. Nice bass

The sounds aren't supposed to be "beefy", they are supposed to be realistic and gritty. They are blasters, not AK-47s and 12-Gauges.

They should sound like projectile, as they are coming out with hybrid weapons soon. Hybrid weapons are blasters and rails.

They should sound like projectile, as they are coming out with hybrid weapons soon. Hybrid weapons are blasters and rails.

I agree....

While I understand its supposed to be a plasma weapon and blah blah blah "They should sound like x or y", the reality is they are FUNCTIONALLY assault rifles. The sound they should use should reflect what we associate as an assault rifle sound such as an AR or AK, just not a copy of that sound, mix in a few things. The key to a good sound for a weapon like the AR's is using things that we associate with similar style weapons. Sure it uses plasma, but if we shoot it and think "now that sounds like an asssault rifle" then mission accomplished. However, i do not think that with this new sound they put in today...

In the game plasma weapons sound like the small blaster turrets, large blaster turrets, and blaster intallations. The assault rifle sounds way too different then those, and I would like it to sound closer to them since it is a smaller version of those things. Also those things sound cool while the AR is boring.

As for real life plasma, yes lightning is plasma, but its sound is largely irrelevant considering that we're talking about artificially induced plasma being magnetically propelled by machinery, and contained in a magnetic field. Furthermore, its presumptuous to assume all things in a plasma state of matter would produce the same sound, especially when there are conditons like density, speed to consider.

Most importantly, blasters sound kittening awesome.

After this latest "update" where sound is all but gone, I hope we can all see the importance of audio in video games.

I think we've learned a very important lesson today.

The current guy must be hard of hearing because the weapons sound absolutely atrocious.

If you had beefy sounding Assault Rifles and Shotguns it might go a long way towards hiding the woeful gun-play and frame-rate issues.

So I would just like to thank you for taking the Developers away from the real pressing issues with this game so that you could get your better pew pew sounds.

the new sound patch broke pretty much everything. the only sound I hear now is my own weapon, everything else is as quite as ninjas.

a heavy with HMG behind me? well too bad I cant hear him shooting and spinning his weapon... ninja heavies ftw.