Surround sound is and has been very weird in Star Citizen for a long time now. The center channel is very muted and the directionality of sound isn't there at all. What's wrong with Star Citizen's surround support? Is it getting fixed?

Long and short of it is yes. So we were developing with a big focus on headphones and stereo. There weren't too many considerations for testing and designing stuff for surround discretely, but recently there's a bigger focus on that. We've got ourselves set up with a decent 5.1 room with some really nice speakers. It's something we're aware of, the community's talking about it. So now when we're testing things, we're highly acute of how things translate from stereo and in 5.1. Because audio-engine-wise, it will scale up to whatever playback system you've got, within reason, right? There's only so many configurations of those we can test, but it's absolutely something we're aware of now.