As an avid soundwhorer, I have multiple pairs of gaming headsets to play competitively with. In my Call of Duty and Battlefield days, I constantly got the edge on my opponents using my headsets: they give u an unbeatable immersion and spacial awareness of your character in the game; in with well-designed audio like the two latter mentioned titles, you could easily hear people's footsteps, gunshots, and other noises that indicated a hostile's position. THAT BEING SAID, Destiny's audio is a dick-slap to the face of any gamer who is serious about their audio for the following reasons: 1. Your own gunshots are the loudest thing. YES YES, I know guns are loud in real life. However, this is a fantasy game, completely unrealistic, and also designed for fun and tactics instead of realism. Trying to hear other people sneaking up on you is one thing. Trying to hear them while shooting your gun is completely impossible. Your own gunshots are the only audible thing to an immersed player (a player who is also using other senses: touch, sight, smell, and possibly taste) Your own gunshot sounds aw hardly important enough to be heard over everything else 2. The audio announcer in crucible is such a blaring -blam!-wad. Everytime he says something, you get distracted and think "O shit, my team just neutralized A, better go -blam!- myself in the ass" instead of being able to ignore the announcer like you could in Call of Duty 3. This isn't -blam!-ing Legend of Zelda The music doesn't make the mood, the visual do. Calm your tits and turn down the soundtrack so that the same -blam!-ing song isn't the only thing i can hear when I'm sitting on the rock in the Abyss. 4. Footsteps aren't audible from a distance Even when someone is right on your ass, you only hear their melee impact you body. by that time you are almost or already dead I know that this isn't a main concern, but thought i should put it out there for people to read. Please support this thread if you agree EDIT: So i see a few people agreeing with me, and a lot of hard asses saying "It's realistic to hear your gun firing the loudest" I guess it's also realistic to have people teleporting, double jumping, generating magical grenades, Nova Bombing, Arc Blading, and Fist of Havocing.... This game isn't realistic, so why should the audio be? Also, this: [quote]Yes this I bought Turtle Beach Elite 800's and playing Destiny I was like "where's the damn 7.1 surround exactly?" "What footsteps?" Etc Then I put Bf4 on and realized what a great headset the TB 800's actually are[/quote]