Originally Posted by AThreatToYou
PlanetSide needs DISTINCT gun sounds, not REALISTIC. I should be able to easily distinguish all weapons from one another when they are being fired. It was like this in PS1 and it was extremely important to combat awareness. Everything from the Cycler, to the Gauss Rifle, to the AMP and Punisher had very unique firing sounds that made it very easy to figure out what someone was using without looking at them.
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Absolutely. We need to be careful not to conflate good sound quality and good-sounding weapons (which translates to them feeling better), with "realistic".