New GNB sounds, why?

[Vahlnir]

Sound being the reason for dropping a class just seems incredibly shallow to me. A class that mechanically flows together and provides a decent pay off are the most important aspects. Everything else is secondary. I disagree about 14 having better sound effects. It was passable at best, but again, it’s not something I pay attention to in a majority of content. We don’t need the exact same sounds as other renditions, but it’s okay to take some inspiration. In the end, this is all subjective, but all I’m trying to get at is to enjoy the class for what it is and move on. I’m confident we’ll get a fix at some point.

Yeah, it wasn't a deal breaker for me. Would I like to have the old sounds back? Of course. But the new ones aren't exactly horrible either imo. I actually like how the explosions sound now more than the old ones.

[Valic]

Yeah, it wasn't a deal breaker for me. Would I like to have the old sounds back? Of course. But the new ones aren't exactly horrible either imo. I actually like how the explosions sound now more than the old ones.

They kinda are horrible though. They sound very muffled and overdone. I'm sorry but on a class I was enjoying slashing and feeling swift, I don't like feeling clunky and loud af. Was kinda the main take away from this tank not being the typical "I'm a big meaty, armored beast" idea.

Unfortunately, I'm very passionate about game immersion and sound is a 3rd at least to me. It'd be like if you played CoD and out of no where they decided to make every gun sound like a soft pillow punch when shot (that was actually why I took back Black Ops back in the day). It just kinda ruins the feel of the gameplay at that point for me. While I know some won't get it because its prolly just a job they can easily give up, this was something I put my heart into and gave up my DRK after they dumbed it down because gunbreaker was the next coolest job and close to my heart being an FF8 fan. Then they had to bother it and I'm just kinda tired of them fking with my favorite jobs at this point. Mechanically or aesthetically, I'm just kinda sick of the feel being ruined for jobs I had fun with how they were. I didn't run into this problem much into SB because Red Mage was fine as it was released, DRK was enjoyable, NIN only got better, DRG too. ShB kinda changed a bit much for me, and the fact I felt GNB was perfect and now they changed it to become this was is a bit of a punch in the gut "to me". Again, I'm sorry if people look down or consider this shallow, but you take pieces off of something that someone loves, it's not welcome when other people made the decision for you on something you had no issues with to begin with.

Its actually rather infuriating.

[MetsuShoryu]

So...patch notes is up. But still no sound correction?

[Valic]

Doesn't look like it... god fucking damn it...

[Roukiz]

I can't believe they haven't touched the sounds for patch 5.05. Please, for the love of god, adjust them already. I am so tired of the current wet sponge sword that sounds as if it's missing every hit.

[Cortawraith]

Did anyone of you notice that these new sounds, sound like if you rub a pair of jeans against each other really fast.
In the Novice-Chat I told them that and seriously, one in the Novice-Chat really tried it and said it really sounds quite similar

We've come up with a new name for the Gunbreaker: The JEANSBREAKER!

[MetsuShoryu]

Did anyone of you notice that these new sounds, sound like if you rub a pair of jeans against each other really fast.
In the Novice-Chat I told them that and seriously, one in the Novice-Chat really tried it and said it really sounds quite similar

We've come up with a new name for the Gunbreaker: The JEANSBREAKER!

lol
yeah....can relate that

[Senseition]

Has anyone actually seen people say they like the new Baseballbreaker job sound?

Anyway does anyone know if the japanese players have a similar complain about this issue yet? I dont think they care about what the english players say...

[Cetek14]

Has anyone actually seen people say they like the new Baseballbreaker job sound?

Anyway does anyone know if the japanese players have a similar complain about this issue yet? I dont think they care about what the english players say...

There is noticeable amount of people who don't care, which is understandable. I have seen like 2 people who actually like it? Just revert it Square and end this mess.

[Yin111]

Has anyone actually seen people say they like the new Baseballbreaker job sound?

Anyway does anyone know if the Japanese players have a similar complain about this issue yet? I don't think they care about what the English players say...

So an update, more people in the JP thread have posted their displeasure and disappointment that there was no change. The most recent was the most critical of them so far, calling into question the professionalism of the SFX change and their inaction/slowness this patch as well as reiterating how unsuitable/incomplete the sound is for Gunbreaker.

Other criticisms also call out the Devs changing the sound with out majority consent.

Edit: Grammar.