I’m using a 5.1 setup and I noticed that all the sound effects save for engine noises and music come from the rear speakers. Obviously, the pew-pew noises tend to be overshadowed by everything else until I’m fully zoomed in. I have no idea how difficult this is, but if you could assign more explosions and stuff to come through the center channel (or at least front l/r) it would probably help a lot.
Didn’t know if anyone had this problem still, but I encountered it when running GSB 1.12 on my secondary computer (not simultaneously, of course). I had to delve into the proprietary control panel for the soundcard (a Turtle Beach Riviera, for the record), and disable the rear channel speakers (basically set it from 5.1 to 2.1) to make the sound audible.
I hope this helps development and / or others troubleshoot the same issue.
I get this as well. Even turning the music down way low, I can still hear the music louder than the effects. And all I have is some bog standard headphones.