Graham Philipson · Lead Audio Programmer

Well, I mean, it has a bearing on everything, because it's a core feature of the tech, so it's going to be applied to everything as far as the sound designers wish to use it. So yeah, sonic booms are a special case really, because we don't actually represent the speed of sound, in the sense that you don't hear things so much later after the event. We have considered doing that at some point and we maybe will, but then sonic booms are a different thing because we have different atmospheric pressures, so it's not as straightforward as what a sonic boom is on Earth. A sonic boom can happen at completely different speeds depending on the atmosphere that you're in and the planet that you're on.