Quote Originally Posted by Valic View Post
Take into account camera distance to sound effects too. The further back you are, the quieter it'll sound. But you are over exaggerating I feel like since the skills themselves are obnoxiously loud... Also I wouldn't say "it's meant to be heard", since everyone has a variety of headphones, audio outputs, and so on that would change this concept. That'd be like saying a song is supposed to be heard with 100% bass, 100% volume, etc and it ends up bursting your eardrums and not sounding like the song itself. Those settings are there to accommodate the user, when I have everything at max... I can still hear myself all too well, but it does blend into the crowd BUT that also happens on any job you play as well. That's what happens when your party consists of loud sounds and your own sounds are equally as disorientating with everyone at equal volumes/distance.
My sound setup is perfectly fine, but ever since they changed the GNB SFX, the sound quality on GNB is DEFINITELY WENT DOWN. And camera distance doesn't do anything to sound effects that are in hearing distance of the character that I play as. I don't know what in-game sound settings you are looking at, but I don't see what you're talking in the game options for sound when it comes to camera distance and sound effects. Because I picked up GNB at launch and got it all the way to 80 and never had a problem with it until the changed the SFX.