'Anything more than 5 metres from me, regardless if it’s gunfire, footsteps or anything other than my own gun or the voice to warn you of enemy killstreaks sounds absolutely atrocious and it’s difficult to identify which direction it’s coming from.' 'The only way I can describe is that it sounds like I am in a fish tank,' explained onauxiliarypower. In a post on the Black Ops Cold War subreddit, one player described the way the games' audio sounded to him.
With this officially the games' beta issues are to be expected, and some players are reporting that the games' audio sounds decidedly worse from when they played in the alpha, making it difficult to ascertain to work out where gunfire and killstreaks are coming from.
