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This being an army game I'm pretty sure that they would have used the actual sounds of the guns.

You can hear a difference between shooting in a room and outside as well.

However, the sound that real guns make depends heavily on the environment and much more than just whether or not you're inside. Larger rooms have a different echo than smaller ones (it also depends on the surface of the walls, ceiling and floor), in areas with trees the gun sounds different than in an open field. There's just so many different variables that would need to go into calculating what the gun should really sound like and this engine just isn't built to make those differences.
There might be a way to implement a finite amount of different sounds to the game and have them play at different situation, but it would be tedious work (and I don't guarantee we can do that).

And it might also be possible to change the current sounds, but with our limited budget (or lack there of), we would get nowhere near as clear sounds as would be needed for a game (unless we ripped it from another game I suppose).

I always thought the sound quality of the weapons sounds was pretty good, on AA2, while i don't like a lot the weapon rendition on AAPG (but the game is still in beta and the sound reproduction isn't overwhelming well executed all around).

Anyway, there's a free library project for weapon sounds that was released a few months ago:

http://firearmsfx.moonfruit.com/

(it was funded on kickstarter)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bjjaszcz/the-firearm-sound-library

Yes but if you look at AAPG they have updated version of sounds that play with the right gun, the difference is in this game, where ever you be your gun will sound the same, let's take M16 or SF gun, every gun that is in the game sounds the same in all environment.

I think it could be implemented, I think there was one discussion about it but can't remember what was an excuse for not doing this kind of amazing feature, it runs an old ass sound, implementing more realistic sound would feel more like in the battlefield than at the laptop, I listened on AAPG and the sound there is awesome

AAPG is a newer game, newer engine, it would have had a lot of different things.

And not all guns sounds the same.

I don't recall the guns sounding all the same. As for changing depending on environment, that's not possible in AA2, that's an engine limitation. AA2's engine was made at a time when companies were thinking about dedicated chips for things like sound cards to offload rendering from the CPU. These days, the engine does most everything on the CPU aside from the graphics. You don't need a dedicated sound card to get good environmental effects.

We can update the sounds but I would hesitate to do so. Various reasons would be animation time. Sure, the gunshots wouldn't matter but reloading sounds & animations would have to be stretched/shortened to fit. I also don't know what kind of dedication the AAPG team has, it doesn't really look like they're going for realism. Back when the devs were making AA2, they had real dedication and recorded sounds very accurately.

Something you may not know is that in the sound industry, not much changes over time. DAC's and ADC's do but microphones, speakers, amplifiers, room dampening equipment and other things haven't changed much. You can get 40 year old equipment that will blow the pants off of anything you could get at Best Buy or any other store. Some of it is just physics and very little of it is improvements in manufacturing accuracy.

Anyway, if people were serious about this, I'd like to see comparisons and a few YouTube videos that demonstrate gunfire sounds at a decent distance (too close and it's distorted by crappy camera microphones).

Well thanks for the feedback