New Gunbreaker sounds are awful and too quiet, please revert ASAP

[lydiah]

I absolutely hate the new sounds. The slicing effect felt great but now I cant distinguish any sounds over the over sounds of the battle, and overall it feels like I'm fighting underwater now (the way the sound is distorted).

The only way I can explain the "fix" they made is to simply apply an effect over the existing sounds. The result is a garbled mess.

[Cubester]

I, too, did my part and left a suggestion ingame for the development team. Hopefully if enough people do so it'll be forwarded to the actual development team.

[Noomie]

If that happens, you'll get every other GNB player, who was dissatisfied prior to the change, asking for the same thing. It's a never-ending cycle. Someone is always going to be unhappy.

I don't think that's a reason for people to not voice their disdain for the new voices, but ultimately it's up to the team to decide which side of the fence they wish to side on, or compromise between the two somehow.

That said, personally I very, very much dislike the new sounds. Specifically, I dislike all the slashes of the new sounds in particular, but the new explosive sound isn't in my opinion worse than the original. Just different. But the new slashing sounds, sound like I am using a mallet to hit things rather than me trying to cut anything.

If the matched the old slashing sounds with the new explosive sounds, I think that'd be okay, personally. But just... not this, not what we have now.

[Valic]

Here's to hoping the devs see all this and the JP's thread.

[Insertcoins]

should've never changed them. I NEVER seen this many threads on a single subject ever. this is bigger then the male vieras.

[Valic]

should've never changed them. I NEVER seen this many threads on a single subject ever. this is bigger then the male vieras.

Idk about that last bit.... I think that's still a bit higher on the "we want equality for each race" list. This is more like, they introduced and showed us this promising job with all of its things already for months.... within 2 weeks release only a few people whine about something minuscule and minute.... and we get a complete change of the sounds for the worse despite no one really wanting them to change to begin with. It enraged everyone playing the job, its enraged people just now picking up the job, its just... not a good patch or was ever worth patching in the first place.

[Nephyleem]

I rushed the Gunbreaker Job to do Shadowbringers on it. Loved it a lot, thought I had found my calling!
... Then that regretable update happened.
... ... I do not feel like playing Gunbreaker anymore, it's soul is gone.
... ... ... I think I'll be a Samurai until it reverses. At least, they still have blades, not foam bats.

[Valic]

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

reminder to everyone, like that comment, get it noticed.

[WhyAmIHere]

If you have a character that hasn't picked up GNB yet, go and do so. The Hrothgar job tutor dude? In the first cutscene you see a GNB in action in [location of hawthorne hut aetheryte] they use the original sounds for the basic 123 combo.

[gilmorej]

I wonder if the people who think this sounds all right are playing with terrible sound systems.

I played on my laptop today, and thus was using the built-in laptop speakers, which sound like tin cans. I could actually hear the knife sound in the Keen Edge combo, because my laptop speakers are so bad and cannot produce any bass thus the low-quality "explosion sounds" weren't overpowering everything else.

On my desktop PC, which has an actual good speaker set up, with nice speakers and a subwoofer, the Keen Edge combo sounds absolutely terrible. It sounds like a muddy pile of cardboard sounds.

I still just want the sound effects reverted to how they sounded at launch. The speakers and headphones I use 99.99% of the time are very good quality and these 5.01 patch sounds are terrible on an actual good setup.