Are the current car engine sounds final?

[Hyperion Biga]

Because it's about only thing I feel is truly lacking about the game... they in some cases sound very artificial/digital, lacking detail and "cojones".

For good car sound examples check Dirt Rally, RaceRoom, Automobilista.

It's just so much more enjoayble to drive, when pressing throttle puts a grin on your face. It's basically everything we hear for 99% of gameplay (everything outside menu musics) in driving games, so it's importance shouldn't be underestimated.

For example Assetto Corsa, great sim, some cars sound like crap -- far less fun to drive.

Crash sounds in Wreckfest are good, engine sounds overall imo lacking

[Sam223]

I think everything is 'subject to change' but whether or not it will change is a guess.

[mitchlol57]

Bugbear said in a Dev post for the lastest big update that much of the engine sounds are new and most are not used before, which is true. But before the update, all the V8's sounded really weightly and meaty and I loved the sound of them, now most sound a lost worse, most sound like a crappy V6 with no bass in the sound, but it was much better than it is now. Since this game is early access, the sounds with probably (and hopefully) change. :D

[Hyperion Biga]

Also, when they aren't 100% real cars but just inspired by real cars, the sound doesn't have to match 100% a real car. While of course roughly right engine type would be nice, but anyway you can have some "liberties" and make it interesting sounding, by borrowing samples from various cars, if not able to record that exact IRL car

Or taking/combining samples from high quality videos, although don't know how copyright things go in those

Digitally produced sounds rarely lead to good end result, has to be recordings of real cars. This is what for example Automobilista has done vs. some bad car audios in Assetto Corsa which are (in some occasions) obviously digitally generated

[Vin Petrol]

The engine sounds are indeed poop now, we can only hope that the older and good engine sounds will feature again upon maximising car performance, but that would be the best thing to do, however! Doing the best thing is not the developers strong point lol, basically they're heads consist of mainly just bone, i have lost hope.

[coOp-ongle]

REAL-TIME equalization is the key

[THE OFFICIAL KILLER]

I usually swap the engine sounds around. My Rocket uses the war wagon sound file. also setting RPM smoothing to 0 gives it a little more rasp.

Wwise for creating engine sounds... Looks so complicated even after reading tutorials. Would love to get an LS3 sound in-game!!

https://youtu.be/oVAKu2oeSzA

[Hyperion Biga]

Engine sound still isn't strong point of this game.. Collision sounds are spectacular, but some engines sound mainly annoying, artificial and nasal, very few (if any) of them sound satisfying.

Oh well, not all games can have audio as good as Dirt Rally (and not saying these cars should sound like rally cars, but they are so detail-less and boring sounding)

Collisions are absolute opposite, probably best collision audio I've heard in any game. Also the extra side noised from damaged cars are good. The engine sounds (overall) aren't

[Vin Petrol]

The v8 sound I've used for nascar legend mods is the best and only decent sound in game in my opinion, think it's the speed bird default sound.
Raceroom racing experience is the daddy of all engine sounds, the sound team actually travel to track days and record the real thing, I recommend checking it out if you not aware, it's unbelievable at first.

[Hyperion Biga]

Yeah RaceRoom has the best sound of any racing game. Dirt Rally too, in rally genre. Sadly many developers underestimate it's meaning. And creating good sound takes lot of effort indeed