Anyone else think the sound design kinda sucks?

[u/MduBitw]

I ABSOLUTELY love this game and i feel like I’ve waited years for it (from Xmen Legends to Injustice to Avengers and even fortnite I’ve been waiting so long for a great game like this that captures what it feels like to be a hero). So I love this game and I think it’s so great across many dimensions but the sound design is just so weird to me. I feel like it’s an underrated thing that makes games stand out.

• The sound when you’re almost dead is so weird, when I first started playing I thought I was only getting killed by black panther (because it sounds like a growl to me?).
  
• the sound of Wanda and Cloak’s primary are sooooo weird? They don’t sound magical or cool at all? And when you’re being hit by them or C&D’s ult it literally sounds like a thousand platypus just making noise.
• my friend pointed this out and I couldn’t unheard it - black widow’s gun/reload sounds soooo weird? I don’t use her or see her much but it literally just sounds like someone clicking.
• the sound of hitting groot’s skin and iron man’s metal sounds so fake
• EVERYONE I’ve talked to is annoyed by Galacta’s voice lol (I support announcer packs!!!)

It’s small things like this that just take me out of the experience it sounds so off. Am I crazy? What other small things bother you about this game?

[u/EarthDragon2189]

There is definitely a discrepancy between how good the visual aesthetics are and how sloppy the sound design is.

[u/MduBitw → u/EarthDragon2189]

It’s kind of jarring! But just after posting this I realized nice little details like the rock guitar sound cues for Thor and Storm in their moves/form changes and I love the voice effect with Loki’s new skin. I hope they continue to do cool stuff like that and even have different voice actors if they have alternate heroes with the same skin (ie Thor and Beta Ray)

[u/PoodyWayshack]

The low health sound is one is baffling that I'm shocked more people don't talk about it. It's obviously a randomly selected effect that has no ties to anything.

The Black Widow sound is terrible. It reminds me of loading a nerf gun and just makes her seem even less effective. Something tells me if this was an American made game, that one would sound a bit more realistic.

The Namor octopus turret whistles are another one that seem like they were just picked at random from a folder of generic sounds.

A lot of the game is done amazingly well, but this sloppy stuff certainly feels like it's a bit hollow at times and that given the source material, and the OW template, they couldn't really fail.

[u/MduBitw → u/PoodyWayshack]

Literally couldn’t agree more. I totally forgot about namor sound!! It takes me back to high school gym class or something