New Gunbreaker Sound Effects are Disappointing

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Originally Posted by Valic

There's a couple including myself that have admitted the new SFX make it unplayable.

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Oh i completly understand man (and my bad shouldnt have forgot that). Gnb has lot of weaving to do. When you have to deal with a tankbuster, decide witch cooldown to use, do your continuation combo, use bowshok+blasting zone, keep a watch at bloodfest and avoid loosing a cardtrige etc... And dont even hear where is your contination ? Watching your hotbar just for 1-2-3 or 1-4-2-4-3-4 is not really fun to do. It's just frustrating when you miss 1 skill because you have to concentrate on it more than needed.

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Originally Posted by Cetek14

Just revert them all. Before only a few people complained (for no reason). Now we have literally storm on multiple forums. Conclusion? It was perfectly fine before.

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Yeah before you could deal with the loud sounds with the sound settings, now even if you have max lvl it doesnt change much...

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Originally Posted by Cetek14

Just revert them all. Before only a few people complained (for no reason). Now we have literally storm on multiple forums. Conclusion? It was perfectly fine before.

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This so much. I am even checking the forums daily and I never did before, for crying out loud. This needs a change very badly.

Everytime I watch an old Gunbreaker video I can only think on how really freaking cool the old sound was.

A reminder to anyone to bump these threads, send in tickets, do whatever you can just good god let SE know we need back how GNB was SUPPOSED to sound. Its not fair they showcase it as is in the job trailer, in the quest unlock how it sounds... and now it sounds nothing like it did and how people accepted it because of a few naysayers. I'm about ready to go back to DRK ~.~; (and I'm bored/hate how DRK plays now...)

Well there is the chance the devs do know the Solid Barrel combo and then some sucks. Both this forum and the JP one (both on and off-site) have blow up over the sound, as well as social media, Twitter and Youtube. However the devs are unlikely to make a hot-fix. It will probably take a few weeks until the next patch where they adjust the sound, much like how bad the Veria 9 and 11 combat voices were during launch. They didn't say anything about the Veria voice or acknowledge it up until the 5.01 patch notes where they claimed it was a bug/glitch. If they did acknowledge it before hand, it would give the impression that they had (publicly) failed and embarrassed themselves.

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Originally Posted by Yin111

Well there is the chance the devs do know the Solid Barrel combo and then some sucks. Both this forum and the JP one (both on and off-site) have blow up over the sound, as well as social media, Twitter and Youtube. However the devs are unlikely to make a hot-fix. It will probably take a few weeks until the next patch where they adjust the sound, much like how bad the Veria 9 and 11 combat voices were during launch. They didn't say anything about the Veria voice or acknowledge it up until the 5.01 patch notes where they claimed it was a bug/glitch. If they did acknowledge it before hand, it would give the impression that they had (publicly) failed and embarrassed themselves.

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This. They will just do something in the next patch, so next week. It feels like big fat middle finger to all mains. I literally lost all will to play this game.

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Originally Posted by Cetek14

This. They will just do something in the next patch, so next week. It feels like big fat middle finger to all mains. I literally lost all will to play this game.

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If they come up with something good, it wont be a "big fat middle finger" but if next week they do nothing and choose to keep the silence, then yeah...

The new sounds are so terrible, the dash zoof has no oompf anymore, every attack sound sounds the same now except for a change in speed or more hits.
Every skill literally sounds the same.
I have never heard a blade sound like a baseball bat. It makes me really sad.
I hope they revert all changes cause this makes it sound like you're just fighting with a stick that goes boom.

Even if they meant to change it a third time to something new, at least gimme back my old ones as a temporary solution until then ;w;

These new sounds are terrible.

Picked up Gunbreaker at launch but then decided to level Warrior. Tonight I decide to run through a couple of dungeons with Gunbreaker. I ended up restarting my game first because I thought my sound was bugged. After that didn't work I googled to find they had changed the sounds. This makes no sense to me as they are great before.

The new effects sound like the gunblade is not connecting, it's like swinging a sword around at nothing. What were they thinking? The sound effects in this game are usually spot on.

Think I'll drop GNB for now until they do something about this... if they do that is.

Tomorrow night we see if they patch anything about it and we pray dear god they do. Don't anyone dare tell me "it'll take them weeks to fix this". No, they have the original sounds backed up and have the original setup of how the SFX were aligned to each skill, I know they can do this without individually editing each and every sound effect on the job. The only hope if they don't do this otherwise is that they do this but take their time just adjusting the volume of the explosions so they "get it right"(thanks whiners) next patch.

EDIT: Nvm, I'm dumb, reset has already happened... and no patch... feels bad. Another week of this.

I don't play Gunbreaker. I'm a DPS, but was still curious. I YouTubed the sounds before and after patch of Gunbreaker.
And MY GOD, that change is horrible.
I feel bad for y'all.

Yeaaaaah.

Thankfully we can try to ask in the live letter thread. This person asked a question about it and I'm gonna try and get it as many likes as possible.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post5099702

So...the note is up. Still no sound correction?

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Originally Posted by MetsuShoryu

So...the note is up. Still no sound correction?

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sadly nothing mentioned...... fuck all I'm mad.

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Originally Posted by Valic

sadly nothing mentioned...... fuck all I'm mad.

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They said that other problems have been dealt with so maybe they really want to change things and keep silence ?
It's still a big dissapointement for now ...

Keep up the pressure. Send suggestions. Otherwise it will be first job killed right after release.

Petition to rename GNB from gunbreaker to gunbatter or gunclubber "D

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Originally Posted by Senseition

Petition to rename GNB from gunbreaker to gunbatter or gunclubber "D

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It's more like cardboardbreaker imo.

Supporting this thread. This needs a change quickly.

still wondering who these first batch of complainers are that dictated the original sound was bad? becuase i have looked everywhere and have seen hardly any mention or request to change.The only thing i saw was someone asking the explosions to sound more meaty,but i guess that means making everything else sound like garbage according to SE.They changed this out of nowhere which is why im wondering what they was thinking and how they decided that this was a suitable replacement to the quality of what we had before.

The Gunbreaker sounds are like those of a nerf sword that explodes very anticlimactically. You can make better sound effect for GNB by slamming your hands on your desk and making explosion noises with your mouth.

I hope they change it back because I can't even play the class due to this poor choice in SFX. If i wanted to hear sfx similar to a nerf sword or a baseball bat I'll play outside with my friends.

Show your support in the vote thread if you haven't already! Hoping they notice this and fix it SOON.

Rewatching the job action trailer, honestly, the original sounds were fine with a few problems, namely the cartridge combo had good sounds, but they were just super quiet, like the explosions were happening a mile away from you, if tuned to sound a bit louder, they would have been fine, that was a sound tuning issue, the SFX didn't need replacing.

For the basic 1-2-3 combo, all changed for the worse, I really liked the ricochet and slicing sounds on Solid Barrel, the only part that sounded off was Brutal Shell, but I'm not sure if that was because the SFX sounded weak, or that the heal sound just drowns it out (kind of wish they removed the heal sound from Brutal Shell myself) and the changes to the AoE and Blasting Zone were also bad, again, just tune them to sound louder and heftier.

Adjustments to the sounds should have been a welcome change, but they went in the completely wrong direction and butchered them, instead of the sounds of ringing steel and ricochet, we get sounds akin to hitting stuff with a pool noodle, hopefully they take greater care when adjusting the sounds, I would like to see them revert the sounds, but change the volume and tweak them to make them more satisfying, replacing them was a poor decision, as practically all of them changed for the worse.

I visited the aesthetician yesterday, and...

Why can his pair of scissors sound better than both versions of the GNB blade?

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Originally Posted by Zfz

I visited the aesthetician yesterday, and...

Why can his pair of scissors sound better than both versions of the GNB blade?

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Some of his sounds are actually currently used in some skills WAR has.


Also.. side note... someone posted this and I lol'd but also felt sad how true it is.
https://youtu.be/ArqiTny3ZoM?t=11

Our sounds now ^ Practically exact. Even at the end of the video with the swings.

This is sad, the batbreaker class

I know I'm going to get flamed out for this, but I actually like the new sound effects a whole lot more. The physical hits sound a whole lot meatier, and the explosions, while still too quiet for my liking, are actually audible and really lend themselves well to the impact of the whole thing. The old sound effects felt too clean for a job that wields an explosion-sword.

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Originally Posted by Capn_Goggles

I know I'm going to get flamed out for this, but I actually like the new sound effects a whole lot more. The physical hits sound a whole lot meatier, and the explosions, while still too quiet for my liking, are actually audible and really lend themselves well to the impact of the whole thing. The old sound effects felt too clean for a job that wields an explosion-sword.

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You won't get flamed, but you will hear differing opinions just as we know we'll hear. I'll give you credit too for backing up why you like the sounds. Most of the arguments here though are that a one handed sword that size shouldn't sound "meaty" and the keen edge combo is so blunted it sounds like a baseball bat. The audio also blends very much with other parties in raids and while I agree the old sounds were quiet, I think they just needed volume increases in the right spots, not overall changes. They also removed the trigger sounds an anything that fit the idea of a mechanism such as a gunblade. The weapon also sounded unique compared to WAR, PLD, DRK, NIN, and other jobs with swords by being clean, precise, and swift sounding just how Squall swings it in FF8 and Dissidia. Personally I thought that was a nice take on a gunblade for a change instead of it having more generic dissidia effects. Everyone also seems to think that the gunblade is as you said, an explosion sword, as if to imply it should look like this.

https://i.imgur.com/yU4TSLQ.png

When really we all kinda want something more akin to this idea.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0201nWY12HY/maxresdefault.jpg

The former treats the weapon like it's supposed to emit explosions michael bay style and nothing more. Yes the weapon emits shockwaves and explosions, but that alone would make it no different than a BLM firing off Fire spell explosions or a gun just shooting them. The latter implies we have an actual sword that when swung, explodes and leaves trails of ember and fire in its path. Gunblades in FF have always been swung and then emit the explosion, showing the sword half and the gun half in equal portions. What we have now greatly increases the whole "explosion gun" factor, but GREATLY decreases it being a blade in any form with how blunt the weapon is and how overdone the explosions sound. A clean and crisp small sword that isn't quite large, shouldn't sound like it weighs over 100 pounds and hit like a pillow being hit with a bat (as shown in this thread and given examples of). Explosions from such a weapon shouldn't be the only defining factor of a weapon titled "GunBLADE"either. They should come in equal halves and fit the graphic of the weapon, and people want a swift, combo'ing weapon that deals explosions with each momentous slash and slice... not a BONK, followed by a KA-BOOM.