[Not a bug] Player sounds played by non-players use default sound class

[Player701]

Not sure if bug or feature suggestion - depends on whether the current behavior is intentional or not.

It seems that whenever the engine attempts to play a player sound originating from something other than a PlayerPawn (e.g. monsters, console commands), it will always use the first defined sound class ("player" in Doom and "fighter" in Hexen) when selecting which sound to play. It would probably make more sense to use the sound class of the console player instead, which would make things like this possible without gross hacks (not sure if that can even be done at all right now, probably only by rewriting the intermission screen code).

This can be easily reproduced in Hexen by selecting a player class other than fighter and typing a console command to play a player sound (e.g. playsound *death).

Tested in GZDoom 4.6.1.

[Graf Zahl]

This is intended behavior and won't be changed. Who knows how many old mods this might break?

[Player701]

I don't know... The engine does seem to fall back to the default sound class if there is no sound definition for the current one, so the worst that could happen is that a few sounds would change.

[Graf Zahl]

Changing things that have had defined behavior for 20 years is not a good idea.