Gunshot volume

I’ve done some research and this has been a complaint in this game for ages but…

The gunshots in this game make my ears bleed. Seriously it’s insanely loud. And there’s no way to adjust it without lowering the volume of everything else.

Obviously there’s the issue of balancing because footsteps are huge in this game but seriously can’t there be a middle ground here?

On PC people resort to third party software to balance the audio but on console we don’t have that option. It’s either put myself at a huge disadvantage, or jump out of my god damn chair whenever somebody shoots at me.

Has anybody found some kind of workaround for this? People have been complaining about this since 2017 so I don’t really think the devs will ever fix it.

Sorry for the bitchy rant.