I don’t think so.

The actual “boom” sound is coming from the gases expanding from the gun barrel, not from the breach. Tank’s construction at best would absorb the sound of the breach kicking back, a not so loud “thump”.

A pistol is similar to a tank’s gun in the principle of how it works. To muff the sound you would put a silencer on the end of the barrel, to deal with the gases. Covering the whole pistol in some sound absorbing material but leaving the barrel outside of it would do next to nothing to suppress the firing sound.

Guns don’t do a juicy KA-BOOM! They do dry PLOP. But they do so to the extreme, where your ears would hurt. You can’t represent that in game unfortunately.

Now, realism vs entertainment is a very, very different topic. Don’t mix these two.

Every stupid lover of explosions ever…

*sigh*

Also could be because of the microphone sensitivity settings.

It might be because some YT footage is with blank rounds (which are louder). There’s actually lots of reasons why it might differ.

Because, you see, I like to think about what can be improved and how – and the public is usually wide off what is really broken. Everybody just wants to be top tier and win 24/7, most hide it behind nice words, some don’t even bother.

I don’t care about realism for the sounds – I want more “hollywood” in the sound meaning it should sound big and scary for the bigger guns.

I should be able to hear a 150mm+ gun from across the battlefield and be wary.

WG, don’t think realism for the sounds – none of us want real, we want awesome. When I grind 70,000 XP to get the biggest gun on my tier 10 tank, I want it to sound awesome not realistic.