I've just fixed this after NONE of the things you listed worked for me too. What fixed it was setting my audio card (Motu M2) Loopback Mix as default. So it's basically picking my voice by internally 'listening' to the computer. I'm aware it might be an option very specific to my audio card but I hope it might help with some further troubleshooting possibilities ✌️

In T175985#2509125, @Lasyen wrote:

I think if that was the case it would need a tied "doing something" animation to make it not look like it just teleports onto the gun.

This would be great

Yes please, either make it more minimal or give us the option to enable/disable as it is with the crosshair for example. For the rest big love to the amazing job of the devs done in the last updates (I'm playing since 1.12 and it has been impressive)