As alot of you know the weapons in halo 4 do not sound very powerful at all. most of them sound like me slamming my car door. especially the shotgun. I was so happy to finally see it but that quickly turned into disappointment. the weapon had lacked a powerful sound and sounded like cans being smashed. The game looks good but the weapons dont
I just don’t like the shotgun and sniper sounds too much, but it’ll grow on me and will definitely sound better in person.
The AR sounds heavy and lethal.
the BR sounds precise.
the LMG just sounds like a hailstorm of lead.
the Shotgun sounds pretty good to me, not any more corny than the previous iterations.
Did you like, not watch the video or something? The shotgun sounds like a shotgun.
The rocket sounded badass!
I like em all!
They do sound better, except for the fact that there is no base in the sounds. Makes them sound horrible.
Funny you should say that, seeing as they used actual guns to record the sounds.
I guess real-life guns don’t sound powerful enough?
It is just the Shotgun that is bugging me. It sounds way too simple and weak compared to it’s predecessors.
I am kinda okay with the Sniper Rifle.
The shotgun sounds like my iPhone falling on the ground. It sounds like there’s some sort of silencer on it.
Nice feedback. Maybe if we maturely explained how we felt, the developers would listen to things like this. You guys get upset about how they’re over at NeoGaf posting on the forums over there, yet there are some many threads about complaining. “Oh this sounds like a fart sound”, “Oh this sounds like slamming a car door”. “Oh I’m so disappointed”. “343 ruined Halo”.
They work really hard. Maybe if you showed a little appreciation, they’d take your concerns into practice. But no, all you guys (well some of you guys) complain. I’m not trying to be rude, but I’ve heard so many complaints already. Have you ever stopped to think how much they put their back into making this game. Show a little appreciation, instead of having the first thing you do after watching the video be, “Oh that sounds like a car door let me go complain about it by making a new pointless thread.” There are already so many threads complaining about the weapon sounds.
Thanks 
I think everything but the shotgun is spot-on. It needs a little more “boom” to deserve the name boomstick. I understand military shotguns are a little more subdued than their civvie counterparts (have you ever heard an aa12 being fired? doesn’t sound like much, but the thing is the pinnacle of bada–ery) But this thing sounds more like a fartstick than a boomstick.
But the railgun, omg the railgun. . . I can’t stop going on about it. I can’t wait to get my hands on it. It looks like it’s going to be solid effin death in the right hands (hopefully mine) I seriously cannot WAIT. It sounds like liquid gold, looks like blackest murder, fires like a wet dream. Maybe its the old school quake 2 gamer in me. . . idunno, but gimme gimme gimme.
I think the weapons sound awesome, opposite of you what you think. I think they, most of them, sound pretty powerful.
Besides the Shotgun, thats the only one I didn’t like that much. I need more sounds of the Sniper but I think it should be fine.
I agree. The sounds are definitely more visceral, but not as beefy as I’d like.
> As alot of you know the weapons in halo 4 do not sound very powerful at all. most of them sound like me slamming my car door. especially the shotgun. I was so happy to finally see it but that quickly turned into disappointment. the weapon had lacked a powerful sound and sounded like cans being smashed. The game looks good but the weapons dont
Stop complaining about every little thing people! IMO the sounds are better than they’ve been in any Halo. Especially the rocket launcher, spartan laser, and sniper.
It’s k just turn your hearing aid up, yes i know the halo 4 weapons sound amazing.
I like the sounds, especially the AR. The sniper and shotgun were the only ones that were “meh” but I’ll get used to them.
I got to disagree, in the “sound” video where you clearly could hear each weapon I think the sound effects used were really good, I could tell from the sound which gun it was and what kind of weapon. The long range weapons sound precise, the shotgun sounds powerful and deadly, but short ranged, like a punch (which it is ^^).
> Funny you should say that, seeing as they used actual guns to record the sounds.
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> I guess real-life guns don’t sound powerful enough?
dude i know right?!?! i mean they used a freaking BARRET 50 CAL. for the sniper rifle and people hate how it sounds? the barret is the MOST POWERFUL SNIPER RIFLE on planet earth right now and it sounds horrible? maybe these people have never seen a barret fired and heard the thump it gives off. i LOVE how the sniper rifle sounds because it allows me to imagine actually owning a barret!
The weapons sound good the way they are in fact probably the best they have ever. They actually sound like real weapons for a change. Stop complaining!
The weapons sound good the way they are in fact probably the best they have ever. They actually sound like real weapons for a change. Stop complaining!
sry for DP’ing. internet lagged on me.
Only the Magnum and Sniper sound bad to me. And so what if they used real recordings, the fake sounds from Reach sounded way better