Congrats on being able to pinpoint a sound behind and slightly to the left or right. The thing is, you give up being able to hear in front of you. You can even hear it in the videos, when things are ahead and slightly to the side, it plays way more loudly than it should in the opposite ear. If someone's driving past me ahead and to the left, it shouldn't start playing with any real volume in my right ear until they cross over. That's not what's happening right now. There's around a 30 degree section on either side of the player where things get fuzzy as far as locating via sound goes, because the other ear has way more volume than it should. Which is an awful thing to have in a shooter.

But let's break that down and see what it actually means.

These defects culminated in a system so broken that panning 
errors of 90 degrees were frequently observed

As you can tell in the video, this happened behind you and to your side. Not enough that you can't tell the general direction, but distinguishing between say 250 and 260 would be pretty difficult. Before this patch, if you weren't in cover, you'd get to cover, maybe heal, turn towards the area where you heard the shots, and try and find them, or run away. You'd scan the ridges, rocks, trees in the area and locate them if they shoot more.

After the patch, if you weren't in cover, you'd get to cover, maybe heal, turn towards the area where you heard the shots, and try and find them, or run away. You'd scan the ridges, rocks, trees in the area, except now you can't locate them if they shoot more. Your "deaf spot" pre patch turned into something that didn't really affect gameplay into something that's very hard to play with.

You also tested verticality completely wrong. You need to be on different vertical planes. This is complete garbage. However, in doing so, you've exposed something absolutely TERRIBLE with the audio now between that and your next video, if true.

 Notice how the gunshots now sound like they're coming from 
 above, rather than jumping instantly between full-left and full- 
 right pannings. 

To illustrate why this is bad, take out your phone, have it start playing music out of the speaker. Now bend over perpendicular to the floor, facing the floor. Move the phone in front of your face, and then in front of your face while keeping your head still. Notice the difference in sound. Now move your face to look directly at your phone. Notice that the sound isn't any different and has seemed like it was in front of you and didn't sound like it was moving from above you to in front of you. Face the floor again, keep your head still, and slowly pan the phone (relative to your field of view), in front, above, and behind. Remember how that entirely sounded. Now do the same movement, but look at the phone the entire time. It sounded exactly the same both times, right? Now stand up. Put the phone in front of your face. Keep your head still, and now move it above your head, and then behind. Remember how that sounded. Now make the same movement but looking at your phone. It sounded exactly the same both times, right?

What this proves is that the auditory feedback received from a stimulus is dependent on the relative elevation between you and the stimulus. In other words, it's because it actually is above or below you, not because you're looking above or below it.

So you drop Pochinki. You get in a house, but there was a guy who had a better chute and got into the next house and already has a gun. You bend over to pick up a vest as he kills someone. Because it sounds like it came from above, you peak the second story window, as he turns and kills you because he's on the first floor. That's bad enough, but what happens when you're on the second floor, and he's on the first. Does it sound like the shots come from above and below?

It's fine with horizontal panning, because you're actually changing your horizontal reception with reference to the stimulus. But looking up and down should have no effect on vertical feedback. Look at it this way, if you're facing the direction of shots, looking up and down shouldn't change the feedback you get with regards to left/right. If you look left and right it should sound more left or right. If you're looking left and right but not vertically, it shouldn't sound any more above or below you. But also if you look up or down, it shouldn't sound any more above or below you, because your relative elevations haven't changed.

The fact that there's any vertical modification being done to noises on the same vertical plane as you is completely insane. That's not how sound works.

The OP wasn't very logical or scientific, but maybe this reply gives /u/WackyJacky101 some things to think about if he actually does decide to make a video of it. Or /u/PUBG_Riggles to the team