I can attest to this. I was walking north to Svetlojarsk and my compass was clearly pointing south. http://i.imgur.com/P5Pwecg.jpg. This is on a private 1st person server but this was also happening on the experimental as well.

Same house two different locations. One in Prigorodki and the other was in Electrozavodsk.

Oops, just realized I put it under environment instead of structure.

They have no positional audio. The sound does not track or move with them at all on this patch. Channels are not reversed, positional audio is non existent. It's the same for thunder in the game. Right now you hear it in one direction and you cannot turn towards the sound as it stays in one position.