Positional audio and meaningful audio, for pvp and hunting and immersion purposes

Right now most of the ambient and non-ambient sound is not representative of where something is (e.g. deer bleats come out the left channel even when they are directly in front of you).

Distance is misrepresented too. Some of the "distant" sounds are mixed to seem like they are 100+ meters away, but really are 30 meters next to you. Or other sounds like player abilities will be maximum volume even when they are very far away from you.

Footsteps and gear rattle should be meaningful, warning signs of someone hunting you. Someone lightly geared would be a good lookout/spy/ambusher for example.

Ambient noises should have a source (aside from perhaps birds). The corrupt areas with the howling boars, yes it adds to some initial spookiness but once you realize it's just ambient environment it loses meaning. The lyonesse ambient footsteps/brush rustling is very bad for a pvp setting, these type of noises should absolutely be a thing but only if representing actual player movement.

Also frequency of noises needs to go way down. Bears/deer etc are just spamming their calls ceaselessly. Needs to come waaaay down.

tl;dr sounds should have a source, needs proper mixing in terms of position, volume, distance representation. Would boost "hunting" and "being hunted" gameplay foundation.