Weird, I completely disagree. I too am using the official Sony surround sound headset, and I find the sound design to be particularly underwhelming and immersion breaking.

This thread made my whole week! Thanks everyone!
The sound team is pretty small and we worked our butts off getting this stuff in so it really means a lot to us.

Also as for BF3, I have a lot of respect for the sound team on that game. They went out to the field to play with weapons and vehicles and hear how they sound at different distances, and you can hear the realism and clarity in the overall sound.
Our approach was a lot different than theirs though, since we didn't care about realism (though we do care about the lore of how the weapons work). We also wanted to be able easily tell the difference between different types of weapons, and only play sounds from things happening in game.
The distance reverb we add to sounds was inspired by BF3.

Seriously, it's an incredible difference. I feel like I've been missing out on some of the best parts of this game so far.
Probably sounds even better with proper surround sound cranked up.

I'm using Sony Pulse elites which should work on the PS4. If anyone has been considering getting a decent headset I strongly recommend you go for it.

To whoever posted a more or less identical thread a few weeks back - thanks!

I second ths! I swear it's almost like I am right next to somebody shooting a REAL live shotgun by me the sounds in this game are definitely identical to most real weapons. I can tell you did your field work and shot the real guns and recorded the sounds. Good stuff CCP!

Yo stop being so whiny and pouty its annoying. If you don't like it post feedback or don't play. Sorry bro I like you but this whining **** is getting pathetic...

It'd be a lot better if that ***** would shut up about the NULL Cannons.

In Eve they emit a much softer scifi'ish sound that doesn't assault the ears as much as play with them. It's somewhat comparable to the way the Covenant plasma rifles in Halo sound. In Dust, all blasters, all the way down to the Gallente Assault Rifle (which is itself, a blaster) has more of a direct BANG! Sound attached to it. It sounds good, but it's difficult to believe that these are the same kinds of weapons at all.

Isn't this somewhat backwards, though? You would think on the starship scale, the sounds would get bigger and more intimidating, and on the smaller handheld scale they would be softer. Instead it seems the exact opposite is true.

You are the man, CCP Earworm! You are a professional and do your job very well. Thanks for your work!

Thanks, but I don't want to steal the credit, we've got an awesome sound team - my contribution is like the engineer/producer for an album - keep everything on-target and make sure the guys who make the sound have all the tools they need to pull it off.

Speaking of which (if I may jump in and hijack this thread), could you perchance do something about making dropships sound more directional? I think what's going on is that surround sound only really handles 2 dimensions, so it's hard for me to pinpoint a dropship when it's above me. If there is a tank, LAV, or gunfire, I can easily discern which direction it's coming from, but no dice with dropships.

Yeah this is definetly a problem. It's a bit hard to solve since we want to seperate the sounds so each vehicle is easily heard (this devblog gives more detail: http://dust514.com/news/blog/2013/02/dust-514-audio-vision-and-principles/), but where the dropship sits in the frequency spectrum makes it hard for your ears to localize it properly. I know exactly what you're talking about and it's important to hear the position of every vehicle. When we get a chance we will revisit the dropship and solve this problem.

Yeah this is definetly a problem. It's a bit hard to solve since we want to seperate the sounds so each vehicle is easily heard (this devblog gives more detail: http://dust514.com/news/blog/2013/02/dust-514-audio-vision-and-principles/), but where the dropship sits in the frequency spectrum makes it hard for your ears to localize it properly. I know exactly what you're talking about and it's important to hear the position of every vehicle. When we get a chance we will revisit the dropship and solve this problem.

Thanks, but I don't want to steal the credit, we've got an awesome sound team - my contribution is like the engineer/producer for an album - keep everything on-target and make sure the guys who make the sound have all the tools they need to pull it off.