The weapons sounds - dont make the same mistake

The thing I used to love the most about the original UT was connecting it up to the 4000K disco sound rig I have setup. When that redeema hit home, the whole street knew about it.

When I lick up some head shots with the sniper rifle, the police would turn up lol

ok exxagerations but basically UT rocked my sound system. The sounds were so powerfull, full of bass, ear pearcing mid range they really made you feel like you was actually there.

Now UT2004, you can barely hear some of the weapons fire, even with the thing on full blast most weapons just sound all washed out and generally unconvincing and pathetic, why? because they have all been eq'd and compressed VERY badly, nearlly all of the sounds have no mid range whatsoever and some no bass at all. the only sound that is remotely impressive is the tank fire oh and maybe the level announcer, which for some reason is twice as loud as anything else lol

Now either they messed up the sound engine, or they need to put one right through the sound engineers head (a bullet that is). Failing that all I'm asking is that they don't make the same mistake with UT2007.

I Seriously hope I'm not the only one who feels this way, for me sound is as important as graphics and game play. Anybody here who has there PC hooked up to a hifi or maybe a home cinema system should feel the same as me.

Anyway I'm looking forward to the demo, if i get it and it sounds like **** i'll think twice about buying the game.

i've spent a lot of time mesing about with the volume levels etc but they still sound crap, it's the sounds themselfs. This is where the problem lies, but then it could be the sound engine. One thing i do know is they need to sort it for UT27K

So am I right in thinking some people are having problems and some arn't.

Because i've installed ut2004 in the following enviroments:

Home PC with creative sb16 (connected to standard cheap headphones)

Second home PC with EMU 0404 (connected to a cerwin vega intense disco sound rig)

EMI studios, Abbey road, London, production room (cennected to yamaha ns10 studio monitors)

The PC there is wired through a million pounds worth of mixing desk, I can tell you if it's good enough for the beatles it's sure as hell good enough for UT.

And what was the outcome, they ALL still sounded like ****. actually if i had time i'd make a lil video of me doing all this and then send it to the developers, should put a smile on there sound guys face!

I'm not making a mountain out of a molehill here, I don't have superhuman hearing, nor am i being one of those bitchy sound engineer types. I'm just speaking as a regular consumer to the best gaming franchise ever!, look f.sardis and others have pointed out the same problems as me.

As others have stated you can turn up the effects volume and the sounds are audiable, but they still sound **** and all the levels are wrong, i.e. some barely audible and odd one or two loud. imagine whilst on full blast some joker is setting next to you in a goliath and lets one off, you can say goodbye to your windows, your sound system and your ears! lol

What i'd like to see is all the weapons sounds as clear as the goliath.