New GNB sounds have removed slicing now.

[Noomie]

I registered to the forums just to voice my displeasure for the new changes, I do not like the new sounds in the slightest. I'm sure wet noodle and underwater baseball bat comments have been made aplenty already so I wont touch up on that, would much rather see them reverted to the same SFX they had previously and in the Job Actions trailer, please and thank you!

[Ciatore]

Please change it back, I miss my clean slicing and precise gun sounds.

[wereotter]

The easiest fix is technically Dissidia NT with squall's trigger sounds. The people who complained don't have the understanding that our weapon is lighter than normal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOhgAiAvtDU

I don't think they were trying to emulate Squall's gun blade sound effects. Going back and taking a listen again, I'm convinced the gun blade wielder they had in mind when creating these sound effects was a much more contemporary character, Lighting. She's definitely not the first person people think of when they think of a Final Fantasy character who uses a gun blade, but that is what her weapon in FFXIII is, and her sound effects sound much closer to what we heard in the original sound effects for the gunbreaker job.

I will add to my support here as well. I think the new sound effects are a massive step backwards. They sound low quality and more like I'm shaking out a wet towel than hitting an enemy with a sharp blade. Keep the gun fire effects for abilities that use the cartridge (though I will say that even right now the explosion sound there is just a hair too much, drowns out the blade part of the sound effect) but there should not be an explosion for attacks that are not using any ammunition.

It's sad because I had been enjoying the job and was about to level it as a tank to play this expansion.... but now these sound effects have made me actively dislike playing the job.

[firedrake]

...It's sad because I had been enjoying the job and was about to level it as a tank to play this expansion.... but now these sound effects have made me actively dislike playing the job.

I feel exactly the same way. I'm glad I'm not the only one. I really hope that we see the SFX reverted in the next patch because right now it just doesn't feel right.

[Valic]

I used to wanna run fates, leveling roulette, any content and didn't care of the reward because damn did I love this job for everything it was. Now... I'm kinda disheartened to queue for something unless someone else needs help with it. I shouldn't feel this way but boy did they ruin the "feel good" part of this job immensely...

[MerlinCross]

I’ve solved this problem myself.

Getting the pvp Gunblade. That’s a Gun-Club

[killstein]

got gnb to 80 and while i love the job itself, it's amazing how much a sound can influence your perception of said job.

still not thrilled, really hoping they fix it when savage drops but representative silence leaves me weary. :v in the meantime, keep sending those in game suggestions.

[Valic]

but representative silence leaves me weary. :v in the meantime, keep sending those in game suggestions.

This. I'm legitimately scared they may think this is fine and the fact they haven't even said not to worry or that they recognize the it worries me immensely.

[Cetek14]

This. I'm legitimately scared they may think this is fine and the fact they haven't even said not to worry or that they recognize the it worries me immensely.

I think developers might be scared to admit that this was a mistake and failure. In the best case scenario they will just silently revert it.

[Cabalabob]

I didn’t try out GNB until today so I don’t have a reference for the old sound effect. But I can say the new one sounds awful. It sounds like we’re swinging a club around not a blade. Did someone install a silencer or something?

That kind of dull bludgeoning sound effect needs to be changed to something more along the lines of SAM’s gekko or shifu sound effects then it would sound fine. Burst strike is the only attack that sounds at least slightly like a slashing attack.